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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.
Immigrant parents shouldn’t have to choose between their dream of permanent residency and meeting their children’s basic needs Draft regulations would penalize immigrant parents who enroll children in social programs.10 recommendations to expand preschool access for children of immigrants Children of immigrants make up one-quarter of our future workforce, but are less likely to participate in early education programs.A historic boost to child care funding means states can start to realize the potential of the Child Care and Development Block Grant The bipartisan budget agreement passed last week includes a historic funding increase for the largest federal child care assistance program.Misleading data and visualizations The questions we ask when we examine data visualizations can be crucial to how we understand complicated issues.To increase employment among housing-assisted families, don’t pull the rug out from under them The administration’s budget for fiscal year 2019 proposes to permit work requirements and raise rents in federal public housing.A closer look at the fifteen-year drop in black homeownership Since 2001, the black homeownership rate has seen the most dramatic drop of any racial or ethnic group.