Poll bolsters push-on early ed., childcare – State House News Service
By Chris Lisinski
Longtime supporters of child care and early education reforms believe the upcoming lawmaking session is primed for historic action, buoyed by what they describe as growing public support and Gov.-elect Maura Healey’s campaign promises.
A new poll commissioned by the Common Start Coalition, which backs a transition to universal early education and care, found a clear majority of voters want the state government to put more dollars toward childcare services across Massachusetts.
Fifty-eight percent of registered voters strongly or somewhat favor increasing taxpayer funding for child care, according to results of the Beacon Research poll provided to the News Service. That’s 10 percentage points higher than the support Beacon Research found when its pollsters asked a similar question in a December 2020 survey also conducted for the coalition.