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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.
What’s behind the growing share of bank portfolio lending? Three major economic factors explain why banks are doing so much lending outside the auspices of the federal governmentIntroducing the Pay for Success Initiative at the Urban Institute Urban Institute is receiving $8.4 million in funding from the Laura & John Arnold Foundation to help launch the Pay for Success initiative.Why it's important for policymakers to think about death With the baby boomer population aging, it's important to prepare the economy for their departure from the labor forceWhat does successful correctional reform look like? A group of researchers and practitioners outlined what successful prison reform should look like.How foundation grants change over the economic cycle, and why it matters Foundation grants have potential to play a greater countercyclical role during tough economic timesWhat's at stake now that Obama's executive action on immigration has stalled? Millions of Americans' health and economic well-being hang in limbo while Obama's executive action sits stalled in court
