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The rise of buy now, pay later products, which often aren’t reported to credit bureaus, could affect borrowers’ ability to buy a home and sustain homeownership.
Linda Blumberg wins prestigious award for health research impact Linda’s receipt of the award honored research cited by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts in the court’s decision in King v. Burwell.Five lessons from proposals to strengthen federal student aid How can we make the complex array of programs that distributed about $161 billion to students from 2014 to 2015 more effective?Three lessons for strengthening services for crime victims What prevents victim service providers from using research in their day-to-day work? How can they work with researchers to build the body of evidence in the field?No matter the intervention, pay for success programs are ambitious Calling experimental approaches "more ambitious than proven programs" undermines PFS’s enormous potential to make government more efficient.Using open Social Security data carefully Researchers are an important part of the open data ecosystem because their expertise can help identify—and potentially remedy—data caveats and errors.A better alternative to deportation raids In Spain, immigrants were able to take advantage of the country’s 2005 regularization program that granted amnesty to more than 570,000 undocumented immigrants.