Articles and analysis on today's issues
The rise of buy now, pay later products, which often aren’t reported to credit bureaus, could affect borrowers’ ability to buy a home and sustain homeownership.
Let’s engage employers in immigrant integration What immigrant workers gain from integration services goes beyond the workplace to affect their well-being and other areas of their lives.What it really takes to reduce mass incarceration What do states actually need to do roll back their prison populations by 10 percent? 20 percent? 50 percent?How will we know when the mortgage market has fully recovered? Though several concrete signs lately point to a broad-based housing recovery across the nation, not everything is back to normal.Disarming the great affordable housing debate Blaming "the poverty housing industry" hinders the kind of collaboration that will be necessary to build lasting solutions.Addressing the costs of chronic violence in DC The spate of homicides this week makes it clear that living with chronic violence threatens children’s life chances and silences their voices.What data tell us about public safety in DC The latest chapter of Our Changing City explores how DC, once the nation’s “murder capital,” went on to experience dramatic drops in violent crime.