Intended Audience: Local/Municipal Government: Legislative Branch
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Digital Public Benefits: Outlook 2025 at BenCon 2024
A panel of non-profit leaders discuss the future of digital public benefits, highlighting potential challenges and opportunities for 2025.
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System Alignment for Young Families: Shifting Human Services to Improve Well-Being for Parents Under 24 and Their Children
This brief highlights key takeaways from APHSA’s work on young families, starting with an overview of the young families work and its early years, followed by key takeaways and highlights from its final year, ending with opportunities for future work in the young families space.
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TANF Data Collaborative Pilot: Analyzing Application Denial Rates in Michigan
This brief describes the TANF Data Collaborative (TDC), an innovative approach to increasing data analytics capacity at state Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) agencies.
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FormFest 2024 Recap: Local Government Form Improvements
An event recap from one of FormFest 2024's breakout sessions featuring speakers from South Bend Indiana and others working on creating accessible legal forms.
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The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States
This study explores the causal impacts of income on a rich array of employment outcomes, leveraging an experiment in which 1,000 low-income individuals were randomized into receiving $1,000 per month unconditionally for three years, with a control group of 2,000 participants receiving $50/month.
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The Move to Digital Government Requires More Than Just Tech
Processes, power and people are also crucial elements.
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ACCESS NYC Github
Github page with ACCESS NYC’s code for benefits outreach and eligibility.
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Cool Commute: Improving extreme heat resilience with unified transit data
Cool Commute is a mobile-friendly digital tool designed to collect real-time data from commuters experiencing extreme heat.
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Cutting Child Poverty in Half and More: Pandemic-Era Lessons From Child and Family Advocates and Organizers
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.
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New York State’s Digital Evolution: Championing User-Centric Service Delivery Through Visionary Leadership
For the Digital Service Network’s (DSN) final installment of its summer event series, Let’s Get Digital, we heard about New York State’s (NYS) human-centered design (HCD) journey and how relationships between leadership and digital service teams have been pivotal in advancing user-centric service delivery.
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Chief Digital Officer for London 2023 Playback
A 2023 playback from the city of London’s Office of Technology and Innovation of recent efforts to improve data and technology innovation across the city.
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Cross-Sector Insights From the Rules as Code Community of Practice
This report highlights key findings from the Rules as Code Community of Practice, including practitioners' challenges with complex policies, their desire to share knowledge and resources, the need for increased training and support, and a collective interest in developing open standards and a shared code library.