This report celebrates 50 years of improving maternal and child health in the U.S. through WIC and offers advancements, challenges, and solutions for the future.
Michigan's UIA director, Julia Dale, is leading the agency through transition by prioritizing lived experience, hope, grit, and values. Virginia's SNAP Program Manager, Michele Thomas, highlighted the success of Sun Bucks, a summer EBT child nutrition program that fed over 700,000 kids in its first year.
The team explored using LLMs to interpret the Program Operations Manual System (POMS) into plain language logic models and flowcharts as educational resources for SSI and SSDI eligibility, benchmarking LLMs in RAG methods for reliability in answering queries and providing useful instructions to users.
The team developed an application to simplify Medicaid and CHIP applications through LLM APIs while addressing limitations such as hallucinations and outdated information by implementing a selective input process for clean and current data.
This publication seeks to answer one of the most common questions that CIOs ask: “What are other states doing with generative AI and what is the role of the state CIO?”
National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)
This handbook provides local governments with practical guidelines, best practices, and ethical considerations for adopting and using AI tools, emphasizing transparency, human oversight, and risk management.
This executive order establishes a statewide effort to enhance accessibility by requiring all state agencies to use clear, concise, and easily understandable language in written communications.
This panel discussion from the Academy's 2025 Policy Summit explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and public benefits, examining how technological advancements are influencing policy decisions and the delivery of social services.
