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Borrowers with less-than-perfect credit are giving up trying to get a mortgage A more accurate way of measuring mortgage denial rates confirms that it’s harder to get a mortgage today than it was before the housing crisis.What could happen if the Violence Against Women Act is defunded? The Trump administration is reportedly considering the elimination of grant programs that protect victims of domestic violence and hold offenders accountable.An uncertain future for access to birth control in the United States Estimates indicate that over two-thirds of women in the United States had access to affordable birth control under the Affordable Care Act in 2016.DeVos opposes regulation. What will that mean for higher education? The new education secretary's positions on K–12 education provide clues about how she might work with Congress to change higher education.What TANF can teach us about block granting social services House Speaker Paul Ryan has sought to convert safety net programs like Medicaid into block grants, but the results of welfare reform present a cautionary tale.Updating mortgage servicing now will ensure the mortgage market better serves all Americans Servicing mortgages is key to a healthy housing market, but remains expensive and complicated due to regulations put in place to respond to the housing crisis.