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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.
The link between land-use restriction and growing inequality The country’s most productive cities often have the most restrictive zoning—making it hard for low-income residents to move to areas of opportunity.Would two year budgeting help break the fiscal impasse? The House Budget Committee on Wednesday asked Urban Institute fellow Rudy Penner to testify on the potential reform.What happens when communities develop their own programs and policies? Because the community was invested in the research, we received better data. Because we had better data, we co-designed a better program.If we had a more equitable DC… What would it mean if the District of Columbia was more equitable and the residents east of the Anacostia River could participate, prosper, and reach their full potential in DC?Data Walks: Getting data into the community’s hands This innovative approach to reviewing data was more engaging to participants, less intimidating, and more focused on each person’s lived experience.The promise and performance of all-payer rate setting: Just what the doctor ordered? Maryland tested a system in which health care payers pay a fixed sum that creates an annual global budget for a given hospital—with promising results.