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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.
Supportive Housing Can Help Keep Families Together What if providing housing could prevent out-of-home placements to foster care?Five Strategies to Help America’s Renters Many 2020 presidential candidates have introduced legislation to tackle the affordable housing crisis.Facts Are Integral to the Centuries-Long Fight for Racial and Economic Equity When Urban was founded, tensions from centuries of racial injustice and division had reached a boiling point.With Public Charge Rule Looming, One in Seven Adults in Immigrant Families Reported Avoiding Public Benefit Programs in 2018 A new report provides evidence of “chilling effects” on immigrant families’ participation in safety net programs.Curtailing Data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Is a Mistake A recently proposed rule threatens to substantially curtail the availability of mortgage data.Fighting the Stigma: Mental Health among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders In Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, mental health issues are often shrouded by silence and shame.