Articles and analysis on today's issues
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.
The Leisure and Hospitality Sector Has an Employment Crisis—and It Might Be Getting Worse Examining the ups and downs helps us understand not only how bad the economic effects of the pandemic have been over the past five months, but how much worse they may get.Three Lessons from the Swiss Apprenticeship Model to Inform Our Post-COVID-19 Recovery Investments made in youth apprenticeship now could yield returns for decades to come.Why Communities Should Prioritize Rapid Re-housing for People Forced to Live Outside Rapid re-housing can prevent people experiencing unsheltered homelessness from getting sick, slow the spread of COVID-19, and reduce the number of people involved with police encampment sweeps.Strategies from Houston and Las Vegas Show How Local Leaders Can Support Immigrants during COVID-19 Excluding immigrant families from COVID-19 emergency supports risks not only their well-being but that of the entire community.How Local Governments Can Advance Health Equity through Their Built Environments Prioritizing and understanding the experience of populations with barriers to healthy environments is key to promote health equity in a community.Four Ways to Keep Renters from Falling Off the Eviction Cliff The number of people facing eviction and homelessness will increase as protections are removed.