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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.
Development impact bonds: A new strategy for healthier moms and children Every day, 830 women die from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. A new mechanism for financing interventions abroad might be able to help.The stalled, struggling black middle class For the middle class as a whole, the evidence on financial progress is mixed. The black middle class, however, is decidedly losing ground.Michael Brown, Ferguson, and why race matters for policy research Knowing context can’t reduce the tragedy of a life lost too soon, but research on inequality and mobility provides evidence to inform effective policy.Wage insurance as a policy option in the United States President Obama’s fiscal 2017 budget to be released tomorrow will include a wage insurance program, but it’s missing some important details.A new effort to move Americans out of poverty Today, we launch a collaborative of extraordinary partners to build stronger and more effective ladders of economic and social mobility out of poverty.Can economic growth really fix Social Security? Economic growth would bring revenue for Social Security in the short term but puts the system on the hook for higher benefit payments over time.
