This study examines how providing information about administrative burden influences public support for government programs like TANF, showing that awareness of these burdens can increase favorability toward the programs and their recipients.
This is a job description for the role of Poverty Research Technical Fellow from the New York City Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity (NYC Opportunity).
Professor Don Moynihan discusses how administrative burden is an effective tool to make it difficult for people to access certain types of benefits, noting that this is particularly harmful to communities of color.
Government solicitations to procure custom software are often long, complicated, and take months. By using 18F’s agile contract format, agencies can hire an agile software contractor with a quickly-written dozen-page solicitation, allowing for immense savings in time and money.
The article examines the effects of Arkansas’s Medicaid work requirements, finding substantial coverage losses and no significant increase in employment, compounded by widespread confusion among beneficiaries about the policy.
This blog post discusses the importance of prototyping in the public sector, focusing on how it helps test assumptions, gather user feedback, and refine ideas before making significant investments in building or launching a product or service.
This report describes C-Stat 2.0, an updated version of the the Colorado Department of Human Services’ performance-based analysis strategy that allows them to better focus on and improve performance outcomes that enhance people’s lives.
18F describes modular contracting, the process of breaking up large, custom software procurements into a small constellation of smaller contracts. Modular procurement requires agile, product thinking, user-centered design, DevSecOps, and loosely-coupled architecture.
The New South Wales government describes its efforts to connect with other Australian jurisdictions and international colleagues in its move towards making machine-consumable legislation and policy.
