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The National Guard won’t end homelessness. Housing resources can.
The Trump administration deployed the National Guard in August 2025 to tackle crime and homelessness, yet evidence shows housing is the best solution. Several large cities, including DC, reduced homelessness by investing in permanent housing.
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Cities are worried about losing families. DC can set an example for how to keep them.
Since the pandemic, many families have decided to leave major urban areas, with DC seeing a large decline. Learn how the DC Council can encourage families to stay through early wealth-building programs and other investments.
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Evidence on the benefits of the DC’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund
In testimony prepared for the DC Council’s Committee of the Whole, Urban experts prove the benefits of the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund.
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How proposed changes to federal jobs, spending, and policy could affect DC, Maryland, and Virginia’s shared economy
The federal government is a key regional employer, and changes to this sector could increase unemployment, decrease housing production, reduce revenue generated through personal income taxes, and more.
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DC’s unemployment insurance bill could increase by as much as $1 billion if half the federal workforce were cut
In the DC metropolitan area, where federal workers make up more than 9 percent of the workforce, a 50 percent reduction in the federal workforce would raise the unemployment rate to more than 7 percent.
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Thrive Prince George’s: Participant characteristics at enrollment
The guaranteed income pilot aims to provide greater economic stability and increase upward mobility for its target populations: young people who’ve aged out of foster care and senior adults ages 60 and older.
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Investigating racial, ethnic, and neighborhood disparities in access to safe hospital care in DC
Differences in delivery of safe hospital care across three racial and ethnic groups in DC appeared to be driven by unequal access to the safest hospitals as opposed to differences in patient care within hospitals.
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