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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.
Immediate Actions Policymakers Could Take to Support the CC/ECE Workforce Without efforts to stabilize the child care field and to address the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, we risk permanent job loss.Poverty Results from Structural Barriers, Not Personal Choices. Safety Net Programs Should Reflect That Fact. The social safety net is fundamentally inequitable.Policymakers Should Consider New Ways to Use Federal Dollars to Help K–12 Students Federal dollars make up a small share of K–12 education funding, at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has likely exacerbated existing inequities in student achievement. An influx of federal dollars could help.How Can Counties Create Housing Stability for Justice-Involved People? Counties can help bridge the housing and justice fields to improve reintegration and help people avoid justice-system involvement in the first place.An Equitable Return to Early Education Demands a Smart Approach to Data Together, current data, rigorous methods, and targeted resources can get American early education back on track.How Policymakers Can Ensure the COVID-19 Pandemic Doesn’t Widen the Racial Wealth Gap Closing the wealth gap requires short- and long-term policies that provide economic relief over the next year.