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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.
America Can Skill Up Unemployed Workers Today for Tomorrow’s Jobs Now—during the COVID-19 crisis—is the best time for investing in skills.Who Gets to Go to College When All College Is Online? As colleges across the country move toward distance education to close out the school year, looming questions about equitable access for students remain.We Must Act Quickly to Protect Millions of Vulnerable Renters Current actions are not nearly enough to ensure renters can remain in their homes.Confronting Racism and Supporting Asian American Communities in the Wake of COVID-19 Policymakers and public officials can take steps to mitigate the spread of racism and xenophobia, prevent further misinformation, and support vulnerable communities.Many People with Employer-Sponsored Insurance Would Face High Out-of-Pocket Costs for COVID-19 Treatment These costs could create significant financial hardships—particularly among employees without paid sick leave who would already be losing wages while missing work to receive treatment.Even Before the Coronavirus Outbreak, Hourly and Self-Employed Workers Were Struggling to Meet Basic Needs Despite the nation being at the tail end of its longest economic expansion on record, many hourly and self-employed workers were already struggling to make ends meet before the outbreak.
