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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.
To understand mortgage default rates, ask these three questions How many home loans are defaulting? It's not as straightforward as it seems.Your data deserve better than a PDF Think tanks and research institutions: the PDF is a bad habit that is killing you slowly.Adding photos to food stamp cards would not reduce benefit trafficking Proposals by states to require photo ID to use SNAP cards are not worth their economic and social costThe Gatekeepers: Four ways prosecutors can improve their decisionmaking Prosecutors have a lot of discretion to affect mass-incarceration. It's time they start reducing prison populations.A data-driven approach doesn’t have to be impersonal What were the secrets behind a successful program to provide housing to vulnerable homeless people?A new Urban.org to elevate the debate A sneak peek at Urban Institute's soon-to-be-released new website