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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.
Using housing policy tools to build ladders to the middle class Because place is so closely tied to opportunity, housing policy can be an effective strategy for promoting upward mobility.A new way to pay for prevention Pay for success financing shifts risk from the government agency to funders, removing the disincentives to invest in a preventive program.Prison programming works. So why do we have so little? VICE’s recent documentary on mass incarceration shows how prison programming can help inmates succeed. But many don’t actually get to participate.Heavy rent burdens + strong renter growth = tough times ahead for US households Urban Institute researchers project that renter households will grow by 6.5 million from 2015 to 2025.How can cities, hospitals, and universities better partner to boost inclusive growth? How anchor institutions and local governments can partner to help communities thrive.Federal spending on children: What’s up? What’s down? Spending on K-12 education, early education and care, nutrition and social services fell in 2014, while spending on children's health increased.
