Articles and analysis on today's issues
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.
To create evidence-based preschool policy, we first need to democratize the evidence Research on how to maximize the effectiveness and equity of public preschool has not kept pace with the growth of these programs.How well does graduate school pay off? Median earnings for adults with professional degrees are almost twice as high as those for bachelor’s degree holders.The Fair Housing Act is critical to ensuring evictions aren’t driven by discrimination Those most at risk for eviction include low-income women, especially women of color, as well as families with children.The case for expanding access to mortgage credit, and one way to do it 6.3 million borrowers who could have obtained loans under reasonable lending standards were not served from 2009 to 2015.Changing immigration policies may prevent human trafficking survivors from seeking help and justice Interviews with 80 survivors of human trafficking reveal their steps to accessing justice and the barriers standing in the way.How national data can help tackle the eviction crisis America's eviction crisis has long been rooted in anecdotal, city-specific information because of a lack of national data.