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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.
Everyday data aren’t going anywhere, for better and worse Open-source analysis software and low-cost computing put data-driven insights within reach of anyone interested. This is largely a good thing.The big drawback of federal proposals to make pre-k and college free Political opposition from states can often mean that state-federal partnerships still fail to reach a large share of intended beneficiaries.The real disaster(s) in Flint’s water crisis The request for a federal disaster declaration flies in the face of federal emergency aid. Disaster declarations are not meant to fix bad local and state decisions.How a little line in the tax code could matter to your community’s health Schedule H of the Form 990 is a potentially powerful link between our nation’s health care system and the array of services that shape our well-being.Why we created an open-source Social Security data tool What's the difference between public data and open data? To be "open," data need to be easily accessible to as wide an audience as possible.