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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.
Disabilities and public housing: A closer look The link between public housing, public benefits, and employment among people with disabilities suggests ways forward for policy and research.FHA’s new performance metric could open the credit box The administration’s evaluation of lenders may be partially to blame for shrinking access to credit. The updated method attempts to correct the flaw.A mortgage program to better serve the next generation of borrowers With its new HomeReady program, Fannie Mae is taking a step toward recognizing the needs and wants of today's homebuyers.US government finally sheds light on student loan debt Borrowers from for-profit and community colleges are driving the increase in defaults, while those with significant debt aren’t all that risky.Explaining uncertainty with poverty rates All estimates are imprecise. A new map explores how patterns in poverty shift when we take confidence intervals into account.Kansas City’s regional development process: Data driving new opportunities The city is using evidence—rather than conventional assumptions about planning—to address sprawl and segregation across the region.
