Description:
Total appropriations for Head Start in constant dollars, divided by the country’s total population.
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Methodological Notes:
Head Start is a national program that promotes school readiness of children ages birth to 5 from low-income families. The program enhances the children’s social and cognitive development through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services.
Expenditures are adjusted for inflation using the Bureau of Economic Analysis price index for Gross Domestic Product. See National Income and Product Accounts.