How Should States Approach Early Childhood Policy?
Patrick T. Brown American Enterprise Institute
Key Points
To address the flaws in the childcare market, conservatives should place parental choice and pluralism at the forefront of their early childhood agenda.
Improving the market for childcare should include thinking creatively about increasing supply and embracing a wide variety of providers.
Instead of pursuing large-scale programs based on speculative evidence, policymakers should embrace bottom-up solutions that give parents more options.
On March 17, 2022, EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson delivered a series of lectures at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on the topics “Natural Law Theory and How to Think About It,” “Thinking About Church and State, Morality and Law,” and “Thinking About Four Key Creational Truths.”