In July, business leaders from 34 states gathered in Boston for the2011 National Business Summit on Early Childhood Investment convened by the Partnership for America’s Economic Success. Now PAES has released a video outlining the business case for high-quality early education. To business leaders, the narrator notes, “investing in early childhood development is pro-business and pro-economic growth.”

The first person to appear on camera is the Bay State’s own J.D. Chesloff, executive director of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable and chairman of the commonwealth’s Board of Early Education and Care. “Without an investment in early childhood,” Chesloff says, “the workforce that they [businesses] need to do the work of the 21st century won’t be there.”.

As Kim Jasmin of J.P. Morgan Chase notes, “Human capital is our competitive advantage.”