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Digital Identity Guidelines: Federation and Assertions, Special Publication 800-63C, Revision 3
These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not intended to constrain the development or use of standards outside of this purpose. This guideline focuses on the use of federated identity and the use of assertions to implement identity federations. Federation allows a given credential service provider to provide authentication and (optionally) subscriber attributes to a number of separately-administered relying parties.
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Basic Income and Local Government: A Guide to Municipal Pilots
This guide consolidates learning and spotlights principles, insights, and emerging practices to guide municipal leaders and public-private partnerships interested in designing basic income programs that are ethical, equitable, rigorous, informative, and consequential for local, state and national policymaking.
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Me, Myself, and My Digital Double: Extending Sara Greene’s Stealing (Identity) From the Poor to the Challenges of Identity Verification
This essay explores the challenges of identity verification and suggests several paths forward for more equitable systems.
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Contracting for Transformation Toolkit
Tangible tools, scoring guides and strategies to embed equity and wellbeing into your procurement process. Designed for human services with opportunities to apply these principles to other fields.
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Exemplary Data Use by State TANF Agencies: Beyond Routine Reports and Analyses
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) leaders, policymakers, and researchers all recognize the need for TANF agencies to use the data they collect to better understand how well their programs are working and how to improve them, given the impact on the families they serve. It is often difficult, however, for agencies already stretched to capacity to prioritize and execute data use and analytics. State TANF leaders are seeking roadmaps for how to transform their organizations and become data-driven.
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Unemployment Insurance Equitable Access Toolkit
The Unemployment Insurance Equitable Access Toolkit contains common equity recommendations, promising practices, and insights, represented visually as a different floor of an agency office building, compiled in one interactive document.
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Making Public Benefits More Accessible in Minnesota
This report highlights work with Minnesota and includes nine suggestions for states seeking to launch their own integrated benefits applications
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Elevating Family Input in TANF and Child Support Programs: Resources for Program Staff, Leaders, and Families
This expansive toolkit provides guidance, real world examples, and resources to help TANF and child support programs engage the families they serve in improving service delivery, policy, and program operations.
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Communicating About the Social Implications of AI: A FrameWorks Strategic Brief
Research identified five key obstacles that researchers, activists, and advocates face in efforts to open critical public conversations about AI’s relationship with inequity and advance needed policies.
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Federal Standards Needed to Provide Equitable Access to Unemployment Insurance
This report explains how revised federal performance standards can be a powerful tool for increasing equitable access to UI benefits.
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Customer Experience Principles for Unemployment Insurance
The blog post sets up a foundational perspective on CX principles for the state UI agencies.
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Child Care and Development Fund Equity Assessment Toolkit
This toolkit provides resources for training and technical assistance (T/TA) providers in the Child Care Technical Assistance Network (CCTAN) to help State, Territory, and Tribal CCDF Lead Agencies be prepared to conduct equity assessments.