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To use AI tools effectively, local leaders must optimize documents and information for AI, implement guardrails, and rely on human expertise to evaluate risks and benefits.
Steps Philanthropy Can Take to Help Build Local Data Capacity In an era of constrained budgets, philanthropy can lead the charge in transforming fragmented data systems into a unified infrastructure to support states and localities.Social Security Needs Reform, but Capping Benefits and Indexing to Inflation Could Do More Harm Than Good Combining dollar cutoffs with indexing changes fundamentally alters the structure and philosophy that have guided the Social Security program for the past 90 years.Universal Pre-K Offers a Solution to Rebuilding Public School Enrollment Three-year-olds enrolled in prekindergarten were 35 percentage points more likely to stay in DC’s public schools through kindergarten.The Evolving Role of Single-Family Rental Investors—and How They Can Leverage Their Property Management and Rehab Capacity for Greater Impact Institutional investors’ scale and standardized processes could help expand capacity among nonprofits, small investors, and homeowners to rehabilitate and manage affordable single-family rental homes.What DC’s New Child Care Subsidy Waitlist Could Mean for the City’s Infants and Toddlers As the DC Child Care Subsidy program has grown in recent years, helping more DC families pay for child care, so has the program’s budget. Now, program costs are outpacing funding while the city faces a $1 billion budget shortfall.How the Affordability Crisis Threatens the Financial Security of Black Middle-Class Children Policies that invest in children and help their parents with affordability are key to helping families achieve financial security and be well positioned for upward mobility.
