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DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump is rolling out proposals Tuesday to make child care more affordable for working families, including a plan to guarantee new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and create new dependent-care savings accounts. Trump will unveil the plans in a speech in a Philadelphia ...
... care has to go beyond the doctor’s office — especially for minorities and low-income people. Limited access to healthy food, environmental perils, crime, insecure housing, insufficient recreational opportunities and the absence of affordable transportation all can have a huge effect on a person’s health. These factors, often called ...
... and the policy-making in an urban environment, you need to figure out, not just a total unit amount, but how to make those units affordable for people who live here in the city. DUARTE GERALDINO: But, as economists point out, more total housing would lower rents for everyone. ENRICO ...
... coming out of homelessness and coming out of drug addiction and alcoholism and who are starting, so to speak, at the ground level, in the affordable units and the SROs. And they can climb out of that. And as somebody succeeds up that ladder, that frees up housing at every ...
The converging trends of falling state investment, rising tuition, and stagnant incomes has finally pushed higher education out of the grasp of low- and middle-income Americans, even at community colleges, a new report contends. College is less affordable now, when adjusted for inflation, than it was before the economic ...
... through the Affordable Care Act. WASHINGTON -- A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a key tool used for more than four decades to fight housing discrimination, handing a surprising victory to the Obama administration and civil rights activists. The justices ruled 5-4 that federal housing law allows people ...
... to be to handle mental health and substance abuse services. And so a lot of the large prisons and jails in this country are essentially housing the highest number of patients with mental health and substance abuse problems, without really understanding whether they’re the services that are necessary to ...
Photo by Flickr user Julie70 Fear of a potential housing bubble emerged in London as the gap between local salaries and property prices doubled since 2009. According to a Sky News report, the average home in certain boroughs of London are now at 28.9 times the average salary of ...
housing market, Republican candidates face these land mines of the challenge of spending more money and the reluctance among lots of Republicans to help undeserving homeowners. JEFFREY BROWN: Of course, at the same time, Jed Kolko, the Obama administration, with a more interventionist approach, is still finding this a very ...
With millions of Americans "underwater" on their mortgages and millions of homes facing foreclosure, President Obama unveiled a revamped home-loan refinancing program Monday during a stop in Nevada, which has the country's highest foreclosure rate. Judy Woodruff and guests examine the politics and substance of the plan.
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