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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.
Communities’ Disaster Risk Depends On More Than Just Physical Exposure Disparities in wealth and power that exist before a storm can predict how households will fare after.New Data Suggest COVID-19 is Widening Housing Disparities by Race and Income Data show the severity and duration of distress may be longer for households of color, and programs should consider the need for additional time for recoveryThe COVID-19 Crisis Reveals the Need to Let Eligible Workers and Retirees Take Partial Social Security Benefits Social Security could make it easier for those eligible for old age benefits after age 62 to opt in and out of benefit receipt and collect partial benefits.How Focusing on Competencies in Higher Education Can Support the Economic Recovery Our current labor market places a high premium on postsecondary degrees, but degrees may not always signal job seekers’ competencies.Housing Supply Constraints from before the Pandemic Will Worsen Inequality as We Start to Recover These constraints will hamper our ability to bring all households out of the crisis and onto the road to a full recovery.