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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.
Federal COVID-19 Provider Relief Funds: Following the Money As HHS moves to release more aid, it will be important to continue to track what criteria are used in developing future allocations.Lessons from the Great Recession to Help Congress Get Americans Back to Work Three lessons from the 2007-2009 Great Recession can help the workforce recover.What Police Spending Data Can (and Cannot) Explain amid Calls to Defund the Police At the least, spending data can help advocates and policymakers understand reforms’ fiscal opportunities and parameters.How NNIP Partners Are Helping Communities Pivot 2020 Census Outreach to Hard-to-Count Groups Data can be a tool to help guide outreach and track progress toward an accurate count.How COVID-19 Food Chain Relief Can Build a More Equitable Food System for Workers Policymakers can begin sowing the seeds of a more resilient and equitable food system for all workers.It Wasn’t Enough: The Limits of Police-Community Trust-Building Reform in Minneapolis "George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, and that city and cities across the country are on fire. I am trying to reckon with the meaning of the failure of that trust-building work to keep it from happening."