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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.
An Estimated One in Five Renters Feels Pressured to Leave Their Home New data show one in five renters feels pressure to leave their home, with increased rents being the most common reason reported.Three Ways to Support Student Borrowers at Risk of Default in the Absence of Loan Forgiveness Without the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan, policymakers will need to explore other avenues to keep financially distressed borrowers from defaulting.Rethinking Homeownership as “the American Dream” Homeownership has become increasingly inaccessible. What if the American dream instead looked like efforts to expand access to homeownership while enhancing opportunities for renters?Five Strategies for Building and Sustaining the Black Nursing Workforce Black nurses help improve health outcomes, but training programs and workplaces must provide better support to help them enter and stay in the profession.The Future of College Admissions without Affirmative Action Research shows no single race-neutral admissions policy would produce current levels of racial and ethnic diversity on its own.Exclusionary Zoning Limits Opportunity by Concentrating Subsidized Housing in a Small Part of the Puget Sound Region Subsidized housing is designed to guarantee stable rents for households with low and moderate incomes, but subsidized housing in the Puget Sound region is confined to just a few neighborhoods, in part because of exclusionary zoning.
