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Funding Our Future: Generating State and Local Tax Revenue for Quality Early Care & Education

Part of the Resource Collection: Fiscal Strategies: Efficiencies, Innovations, and Revenue Generation Report
By: BUILD Initiative, Center for American Progress, Children’s Funding Project, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), University of Maryland November 24, 2019
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Funding Our Future: Generating State and Local Tax Revenue for Quality Early Care and Education provides early childhood leaders with funding strategies for increasing the revenue from state and local sources that can be directed to high-quality early care and education.

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