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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.
New evidence should drive policies on neighborhoods and economic opportunity The case for "place conscious" investments that target both people and neighborhoodsLessons from the LaCour data fraud case on how to responsibly consume and produce research How to be a better consumer and producer of researchHow benefit cuts affect vulnerable DC families Proposed benefit cuts in DC will make the Mayor's 'pathway to the middle class' more challengingHow can we strengthen local government responses to displacement in Africa? Most of Africa's refugees end up in cities rather than camps, presenting a challenge for protecting themReflections on Baltimore: Urban asks the tough questions of itself Reflections from Urban's president on the Institute's recent workInnovative prenatal care initiative shows early signs of potential for improving birth outcomes Preliminary evidence on strategies to improve birth outcomes for American women