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Sorry to be the skunk at the garden party, but if you want to spend more taxpayer money on programs that make you feel 'compassionate', fine. But much like Head Start, evidence is inconclusive, at best, that preschool programs yield any long-term, measurable benefits. In fact, most analyses that control for factors such as poverty, parental status, parent income and education level, etc. conclude that any modest academic gains evaporate by 2nd or 3rd grade. In marked contrast to Ms. Germain's assertion of "benefits for years to come", it is highly unlikely that ANY measurable benefits will be realized. Of course, nobody's supposed to say so.