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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.
Rules of Thumb: Can a simple message reduce your credit card balance? Simple rules of thumb, even if they’re not as detailed as other forms of financial education, might help people improve their financial decisionmaking.We’re still shortchanging women when it comes to mortgages We need to develop more accurate measures of risk to ensure we aren’t denying mortgages to people who are fully able to make good on their payments.How Moving to Work could teach us about the benefits and costs of car access Moving to Work offers an excellent platform for learning systematically about low-income people’s travel choices.What new programs and policies should public housing authorities be testing? Our systems for delivering housing assistance to America’s poorest families are facing critical challenges and are in desperate need of innovation.Squeaky-clean loans lead to near-zero borrower defaults—and that is not a good thing Laurie Goodman: It’s time to lend again to borrowers with less-than-perfect credit.Why does the Urban Institute belong at SXSW? Urban’s Justice Policy Center is hoping to lead a panel discussion on “Reducing Violent Police-Citizen Interactions” at the next SXSW.