Year: 2024
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Diversity, Equity + Inclusion What is Meaningful Community Engagement?
The Community-Driven Policies and Practices project engaged people experiencing poverty in power-building sessions to develop advocacy plans for economic justice. This report offers recommendations for nonprofits to engage people with lived experience of poverty in advocacy.
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Policy Pathways to Economic Mobility: Mobility Experiences
Through analyzing hundreds of research studies and surveying thousands of Americans this report identifies 28 life experiences that drive lifetime income, called mobility experiences.
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Playbook for Replicating Rx Kids
This document describes how states can access TANF funds for four months of cash payments to families experiencing an acute economic hardship, modeled after the RxKids program.
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Policy Using TANF Funds to Provide Cash to Families
The flexibility of the TANF block grant allows states to use TANF funds to provide cash to families through additional mechanisms, at least for brief periods, with fewer requirements.
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Human-Centered Design How Login.gov uses roadmapping to build trust with its partners and the public
Login.gov created a first-of-its-kind, publicly-visible program roadmap and shares tips on how other programs can build their own roadmaps to improve transparency.
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Automation + AI AI Data Readiness Checklist
A data artificial intelligence (AI) checklist from the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Accessibility Digital Accessibility Toolkit
Variety of learning materials and resources to help learn and implement accessibility in Government of Canada digital projects.
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Change Management Using Live Chat to Meet Constituent Needs in New Jersey: A Digital Service Network Spotlight
The Digital Services Network (DSN) spoke with the director of OOI’s Business Experience Initiative, E.J. Kalafarski, the director of Business Experience for the State, Jessica Lax, and product manager, Joe DeLaTorre, to learn about Business.NJ.gov’s live chat feature.
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User Research Building a User Research Compensation Process from the Ground Up in Saint Paul: A Digital Service Network Spotlight
The Digital Service Network (DSN) spoke with Ashley O’Brien, user experience designer for the City of Saint Paul, MN, about the flexible and resourceful approach she took to reach people across the city.
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Human-Centered Design Summer of CX Webinar Series: Principles to Improve CX
This webinar discusses the White House Executive Order and federal agency guidance for improving customer experience in public benefit programs.
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Procurement Unemployment Insurance IT Modernization Grant Projects: Phase 1 Summary Report
This report summarizes findings and observations on the implementation of Phase 1 of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Open UI Initiative, highlighting effective strategies, challenges, opportunities, and recommendations for supporting states’ UI modernization efforts.
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Human-Centered Design Tackling the Time Tax: How the Federal Government Is Reducing Burdens to Accessing Critical Benefits and Services: 2024 Edition
OIRA publishes an annual progress report on the burden reduction initiative, summarizing initiatives across all of government, and providing in-depth case studies of various burden reduction efforts, including their impact on individuals, families, and small businesses.