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TANF helps families make ends meet, but not if eligible families can’t access it.
Data Sharing Can Better Allow Partner Networks to Meet Equity Goals For places pursuing equitable public space projects, data sharing with partner organizations is critical but requires specific agreements to ensure accurate and timely data.Bank Regulators Are Taking Too Narrow a View of Mortgage Risk Recently proposed banking regulations’ focus on banks may increase risk in the mortgage market.What’s at Stake as Public Spending on Kids Declines? Public spending on children—including the child tax credit—benefits kids and families in the immediate term and can have a long-term payoff for the federal government and society.How Local Governments Can Harness Disaggregated Data without Compromising Privacy Synthetic datasets can offer local governments the opportunity to better and more equitably serve their communities while preserving privacy, but creating these datasets also requires careful consideration of some potential limitations.Supplemental Security Income Thresholds Are Out of Date; Updating Them Would Reduce Poverty. Updating the Supplemental Security Income program’s asset and income limits would reduce poverty and improve financial security for people with disabilities and their families.New First-Look Policies Have Helped Owner-Occupants Purchase Lower-Cost Homes New data show that revamped first-look policies have allowed homebuyers to purchase lower-cost homes absent competition from investors.
