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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.
Six Strategies for a More Inclusive Understanding of How COVID-19 is Affecting Families’ Child Care Needs How researchers can apply racial equity and community engagement lenses to data collection.Declining School Enrollment Spells Trouble for Education Funding Enrollment declines come at a time when state budgets are tightening and broad cuts to K–12 education funding are on the table.Evictions Are on Pause, but Many Renters Still Can’t Pay Renters in every state still need additional rental assistance, even after receiving unemployment benefits.The Student Loan Pause has Improved Credit Scores, But Not Financial Distress Early evidence from credit data suggests the student loan pause has improved student loan borrowers’ credit records.A Broader Outreach Strategy Would Help 400,000 Needlessly Delinquent Mortgage Borrowers Approximately 400,000 homeowners who became delinquent after the pandemic began have forgone forbearance and become delinquent.The 2020 Census Deadline Was Just Extended, but so Far, Texas Has Failed to Ensure Its Latinx Residents Are Accurately Counted Latinx communities in Texas are at risk of losing political representation and economic opportunity because of an unprecedentedly large undercount.