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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 US Spends More Time and Money Building Transit Than Most Countries. Inefficient Community Engagement May Help Explain Why. Public participation remains essential, and policymakers can take steps to ensure engagement processes reflect the entire community’s needs without increasing costs or sacrificing effectiveness.How States Can Use Federal Funding to Make Their Communities Safer for Young People Title II Formula Grants can help reduce violent crime and better coordinate law enforcement efforts at all levels of government.Child Care Is Business Infrastructure 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.Shifts in College Enrollment Demographics Depend On More Than Just Policy Changes In a post–affirmative action college admissions landscape, it’s important to remember that population-level demographic changes can drive enrollment trends separately from state- or institution-level policy changes.Steps Philanthropy Can Take to Help Build Local Data Capacity In an era of constrained budgets, philanthropy can lead the charge in transforming fragmented data systems into a unified infrastructure to support states and localities.Social Security Needs Reform, but Capping Benefits and Indexing to Inflation Could Do More Harm Than Good Combining dollar cutoffs with indexing changes fundamentally alters the structure and philosophy that have guided the Social Security program for the past 90 years.
