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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.
"Free College" Does Not Eliminate Student Debt Making public college tuition “free” might have a smaller impact on student debt than many expect.Five Elements Cities Need to Address "Hypervacancy" and Catalyze Neighborhood Recovery Reclaiming vacant properties is a complex problem requiring collaborative approaches.Rents Are Too High. Here Are Three Ways to Get the Data We Need to Fix That. Where are rents increasing fastest? And what effects do policies have on local rental markets?Mortgage Debt Has Peaked. Why Has the Share of Homeowners with a Mortgage Fallen to a 13-Year Low? The household-owned value of the housing market is now higher than the pre-crisis peak of $22.68 trillion in 2006.What Happens When We Forgive Debt from Child Support Payments? A pilot program in San Francisco provided debt relief to parents with debt related to child support.Five Ways the “Public Charge” Rule Is Affecting Immigrants in America National survey estimates show how the rule dampens immigrant families' participation in programs like Medicaid and SNAP.
