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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.
Five Ways to Create Safe and Harassment-Free Workplaces in a Time of Crisis Employers in a position to rebuild have an important opportunity to promote equity and make progress toward long-term solutions to workplace harassment.Three Ways to Improve the Food Safety Net to Stabilize Children Although the existing food safety net plays a critical role in stabilizing millions of American children’s access to food, notable gaps leave certain groups of children vulnerable.What Amount of Cash Can Help Buffer Families against COVID-19’s Economic Impacts? Research suggests that for many in the near term, the amounts provided in the CARES Act are a promising start.COVID-19 Racial Health Disparities Highlight Why We Need to Address Structural Racism COVID-19 has given us even more clarity about our society’s racial inequities.Enhanced Medicaid Support for Out-of-Hospital Births Could Protect Moms and Babies and Reduce Hospital Strain Keeping healthy people out of the hospital is a high priority as the nation attempts to reduce strain on hospital resources and minimize exposure to COVID-19.Increased CDBG Funding Only Works If Grantees Have Flexibility in How They Use It To efficiently use increased housing and community development funding for COVID-19 relief efforts, communities need a willing and flexible partner in HUD.
