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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.
How do prosecutors collect and use data in decisionmaking? Prosecutors may be missing information that could help them identify trends and set safety and justice goals.What areas could benefit most from Jeff Bezos’s preschool initiative? One can take varying approaches to identify areas most in need of new preschools.How creative placemaking can break down barriers to improve community safety Creative placemaking can promote entrepreneurship while increasing interactions that help build safe communities.Making a difference for 50 years In honor of Urban Institute's 50th anniversary, a forward-looking initiative will ask and answer critical questions facing our nation.Three ways technology can help nontraditional students succeed in online coursework In 2016, 31.6 percent of higher education students took at least one distance education course.