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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.
New competency-based frameworks can help fill the manufacturing skills gap Through apprenticeships, manufacturing employers can produce the skilled workers they need.Five elements of a good job As the economy continues to add jobs, not all are high-quality.Gaps in data hinder equitable disaster recovery One year after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, some families still live in substandard or temporary housing.Traditional mortgage denial metrics may misrepresent racial and ethnic discrimination Traditional mortgage denial metrics don’t control for the creditworthiness of applicants.New data shed light on why some workers prefer non-traditional employment Around 80 percent of self-employed independent contractors prefer their current employment arrangement.DeVos misrepresents the evidence in seeking gainful employment deregulation Gainful employment regulations protect students from exploitation by institutions that do not provide meaningful educational opportunities.
