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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.
It’s Time for America to Reconsider Its Investment in Our Children In 2019, roughly 9 percent of federal spending was invested in children, compared with 45 percent that was spent on retirement and health benefits for adults through Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.Black and Hispanic People See Biggest Potential Poverty Reduction from Select HEROES Act Policies Absent new legislation, more than one in five Black and Hispanic people are at risk of being in poverty later this year.Reducing the Amount of Federal Unemployment Insurance Would Increase Rent Burden for Millions of Households As federal, state, and local eviction moratoria expire, extending unemployment insurance would reduce the risk of eviction for families whose employment has not returned.Major League Baseball Is Back. For Minor Leaguers Still at Home, It’s a Reminder of the Pandemic’s Disproportionate Economic Consequences. Many players may have to leave the game they love to search for livable wages in an economy still experiencing record unemployment.New Civil Rights Principles Mark First Step to Make AI Hiring More Equitable As employers adopt AI hiring technology during the pandemic and beyond, they have a critical responsibility to ensure the systems they use don’t deepen inequalities.Without Robust Requirements That Sellers Disclose a Home’s Flooding History, Buyers Are More At Risk No federal law requires natural hazard risk disclosures, despite 74 percent of Americans supporting such a requirement.