Crunchicrant principles provide free lunches to no one: but see benefit, for everyone, from providing foot and handholds for those willing to drag themselves, or the next generation in their family, up. The most obvious way of providing that helping hand is through support of education: this is a big complex subject – and properly involves state and local government: Crunchicrant starts coverage (briefly) with this OECD data:
There is nothing necessarily right or wrong here: it simply shows that other major countries have somehow organized to provide their youngest with more formal/professional pre-school attention.
