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Federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could cause some DC-area families to lose an average of $187 in monthly benefits.
Large uncertainty under the PROSPER Act’s proposed student loan accountability metric The House Republicans' bill proposes a substantial change to the way colleges are held accountable for the outcomes of their student borrowers.Will stricter education requirements for early childhood educators hurt teacher diversity? Lower requirements have contributed to lower salaries for early childhood educators, compared to K–12 teachers.Three lessons that can help improve disaster relief efforts The second episode of Urban’s new podcast discusses needed updates to disaster preparedness and mitigation.Changes to graduate lending policy are long overdue House Republicans have endorsed a bill that would reduce the availability of federal loans for grad students. Is that a bad thing?How to define a map’s bins to visualize your data Conscious, purposeful decisions can help readers reach conclusions and gain insights from the data.How many children of immigrants live in the US? The answer is hard to pin down. Recent innovations in how we identify families suggest that past estimates of the number of children of immigrants were low.
