This toolkit provides individuals and organizations with guidance, drawn from learning and experience, on how to use administrative and other data to inform program improvements. It collects concrete strategies and practitioner-tested tools designed to advance these efforts. These materials were developed in pilot projects with local Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) agencies as part of the TANF Data Collaborative (TDC).
The article highlights the growing issue of SNAP benefit theft through skimming and advocates for permanent security measures and benefit replacements to protect vulnerable households.
A comprehensive assessment that maps how artificial intelligence is currently being used, governed, and managed across local, state, and federal governments in the United States.
A practical implementation playbook guiding Healthy Start sites in designing, launching, and evaluating Alumni Peer Navigator (APN) services to improve maternal and child health through peer support and community-based participatory design.
This product validation summary deck explores federal opportunities to automate cross-program enrollment proofs and reduce manual verification burdens.
This paper discusses the country’s chronic underinvestment in children and resulting outcomes, including new data on poverty rates among young children, is inextricable from the prospects of young children; and the remarkably comprehensive pandemic-era response policies, including which changes contributed most to reducing child poverty.
A research snapshot summarizing early findings from outreach and discovery work to identify high-impact opportunities for improving public benefits delivery, with an initial focus on notifications.
