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The rise of buy now, pay later products, which often aren’t reported to credit bureaus, could affect borrowers’ ability to buy a home and sustain homeownership.
Research Strategies for Overcoming Legal and Political Barriers to Health Care Equity Amid rising pushback against diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, a group of health equity scholars shares strategies for centering evidence and leveraging the law to achieve justice in health care.How Can We Advance Latino Homeownership and Housing Stability? Latino households are poised to drive homeownership growth in the future; breaking down barriers to equitable housing access is key.Unpaid Family Care Continues to Suppress Women’s Earnings Despite substantial progress toward narrowing the gender pay gap since the Equal Pay Act was enacted decades ago, women still earn less than men, in no small part because of unequal expectations around family caregiving.DC’s New Camera Bus Enforcement Program Has Several Equity Blind Spots A few policy changes to DC’s new bus lane camera enforcement program could help prevent inequitable outcomes and bolster public trust.Addressing Data Limitations to Improve Racial Wealth Equity Stakeholders looking to address the racial wealth gap and improve economic outcomes need good, local data on how households are faring by race and ethnicity so they can target interventions to communities.How States Can Use Federal Funds to Strengthen Early Childhood Education Systems Federal funding for early childhood education (ECE) represents a sizeable share of all public ECE funding in the United States, but not all states know how to access and strategically deploy these dollars.
