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DC business leaders praise the District’s innovative, family-friendly child care policies and offer recommendations for how the child care and business sectors can overcome persistent affordability challenges.
Using homes as ATMs, not homebuying fervor, was more to blame for the housing crisis The presence of risky products, not increased lending to riskier borrowers, was a bigger contributor to the 2008 housing crisis.What could Trump’s budget cuts mean for DC’s federal workers? President Trump’s proposed cuts to the federal workforce will have a disproportionate impact on DC's employment and residents.Gaps in housing services, funding, and data challenge American Indians and Alaska Natives in metropolitan areas On tribal lands, people are more aware of the housing-related services available to them.Turning Africa’s digital divide into digital dividends Many African countries lag behind their neighbors in internet access, limiting their access to a number of economic and social benefits.Massachusetts gave GE a “mega-deal” to move, but did it matter? To convince GE to relocate to Boston, state and local government collaborated to offer the company millions of dollars in incentives.Has the black-white disparity in death rates for older adults really disappeared? A new CDC report suggests that the black-white disparity in death rates has vanished. But the real story on mortality trends is more nuanced.
