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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.
Can We Design Student Loan Forgiveness to Target Low-Income Families? Proposals to forgive student debt have been criticized for disproportionately benefiting high-income families.New Hampshire Residents Who Lose Medicaid under Work Requirements Will Likely Face Limited Employer-Sponsored Insurance Options New Hampshire is moving forward with implementing work requirements for Medicaid enrollees.Anything plus Statistics Is Better Than Anything: A Q&A with Rob Santos and Tim Triplett Urban's Rob Santos and Tim Triplett were recently elected to leadership positions in two prominent statistics-related associations.What Conventional Approaches to Fixing Social Security Are Missing The Congressional Budget Office recently released an interactive tool in which users can select options to fix Social Security.Five Ways the HEARTH Act Changed Homelessness Assistance The HEARTH Act accelerated the shift from shelter to Housing First.Three Persistent Myths about School Integration, 65 Years after Brown v. Board Schools across major US cities remain more segregated than neighborhoods.