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Unpaid Family Care Continues to Suppress Women’s Earnings Despite substantial progress toward narrowing the gender pay gap since the Equal Pay Act was enacted decades ago, women still earn less than men, in no small part because of unequal expectations around family caregiving.DC’s New Camera Bus Enforcement Program Has Several Equity Blind Spots A few policy changes to DC’s new bus lane camera enforcement program could help prevent inequitable outcomes and bolster public trust.Addressing Data Limitations to Improve Racial Wealth Equity Stakeholders looking to address the racial wealth gap and improve economic outcomes need good, local data on how households are faring by race and ethnicity so they can target interventions to communities.How States Can Use Federal Funds to Strengthen Early Childhood Education Systems Federal funding for early childhood education (ECE) represents a sizeable share of all public ECE funding in the United States, but not all states know how to access and strategically deploy these dollars.How Applications for Federal Infrastructure Funds Are Reinforcing the Status Quo Communities nationwide need new investments in complex infrastructure projects, but the current application process for federal funds may be a barrier for entities with less grantwriting experience or technical capacity.A Look at the Past, Present, and Future of Black Midwifery in the United States Removing Black practitioners’ barriers to midwifery is key to ensuring more birthing people can access the type of maternal health care they desire.
