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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.
Surprising Tax Fact: More Than One-Third of Federal Support for Children Comes through Tax Provisions Ninety-five percent of families with children receive some tax benefit.Three Assumptions behind the President’s Proposed Cuts to the Safety Net The administration's proposal seeks to reduce the deficit, claiming to accomplish this mainly through domestic spending cuts.How Disasters Wreak Havoc on Financial Health and What We Can Do about It Disasters have negative impacts on credit scores, debt in collections, bankruptcy, and other indicators of financial health.Reckoning with Structural Racism in Research: LBJ’s Legacy and Urban’s Next 50 The disconnect between Johnson’s actions and words illustrates his complexity and grounds Urban’s reflection on its past.Concentration in Multifamily Lending Argues for Full Public Release of More HMDA Data Why not use this information fully to promote transparency on multifamily CRA activity?Making Student Loan Repayment More Logical and Equitable All proposals miss a critical factor: the amount repaid should depend on the amount borrowed.