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Bobby Scott: “The return on investment by reduced incarceration, reduced teen pregnancy, reduced remedial education, those reduced…”

On the recordOctober 6, 2015
The return on investment by reduced incarceration, reduced teen pregnancy, reduced remedial education, those reduced costs are a lot more than the cost of the Head Start program.
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia

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Scott discusses the financial benefits of investing in Head Start.

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