Health insurance? Check. Child care? Check. Tuition? Check. Finns know something we don’t
Last month I led a group of policy makers to Finland to study how early childhood care is practiced in that country. It was a return trip for me. After high school I worked in Finland for a year. Back then, Finland was a rural country. Many of the roads were dirt. We used an outhouse. A big farm had 20 cows. It was an economy on a different scale than in America. I returned 10 years later and hardly recognized the country, with new roads, new houses, new prosperity. And I returned a decade later, in the middle of a severe recession. But I didn't see one homeless or hungry person. ...