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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.
Child care support is critical for advancing job training and workforce development A new survey shows how local workforce development boards are aiming to help low-income parents.Disaster aid eligibility processes risk cutting out low-income households in need When damage falls below an eligibility threshold, households can be left behind by disaster recovery efforts.LeBron James’s I Promise School puts a public face to the evidence-based approach of whole-family intervention The school is a bold, public experiment in whole-family community intervention, and it is rooted in strong evidence and a proven model.First-time homebuyers will continue to dominate the mortgage market Compared with repeat buyers, first-timers have dominated the mortgage market for the past 10 years.The need for clear-eyed policymaking on student loan defaults New evidence reveals characteristics of borrowers who default on their student loans and the consequences of defaulting.Three ways to unlock the potential of evidence-backed programs at the local level For local practitioners to benefit from evidence, they need to be engaged in all phases of research.
