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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.
Student debt repayment fell during the Great Recession. Borrowers from low-income backgrounds saw the steepest decline One-year student loan repayment rates dropped 14 percentage points after 2008.How Expanded Work Requirements in the 2018 Farm Bill Could Affect SNAP Participants and States Urban Institute analysis finds that 7.9 million SNAP participants would be subject to proposed work requirements.Three ways collaboration could potentially advance place-based impact investing Place-based impact investing is gaining momentum in foundations across the country.Racial inclusion and racial diversity: How they compare and diverge across cities The Inclusive Recovery project ranked 274 of the most-populous US cities by overall, economic, and racial inclusion.Reviving SNAP Asset Limits Could Backfire on Families’ Finances The evidence suggests that asset limits are detrimental to the financial security of low-income Americans.
