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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.
Building culturally relevant nutrition assistance on tribal lands The Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations partners with and employs tribal members and incorporates traditional and locally grown foods such as bison and blue cornmeal.The real story of student debt The policy solutions arising out of public discourse about student debt would help many well-off, highly educated young adults but fail to solve the problems of struggling former students.Seeing the humanity in others Often, the response to police killing African Americans has been to provide more training to police forces. But we need a deeper change to transcend bias and disrupt this pattern of killings.US homeowners are sitting on $7 trillion in spendable housing wealth Fifty-two million homeowners have accessible housing wealth but highly concentrated by age and geography. Nonetheless, it is still shared more equally than other forms of wealth.What are the issues with donor-advised funds? Recent headlines imply that donor-advised funds reduced money distributed for charitable purposes, but that is misleading, if not wrong.What can we do to prevent the next killing? The events of the past week give us no new data—the stories are now tragically familiar. But each name added to the list of victims increases the urgency for thoughtful policy change to prevent another needless death.
