This blog post outlines how address validation tools can improve delivery of critical benefits by ensuring mailing addresses are accurate and up-to-date.
An outline of the opportunities for modernizing SNAP to better meet participant needs by streamlining enrollment, improving digital access, and enhancing coordination with other safety net services.
An economic analysis estimating how recipients of emergency SNAP benefits during the pandemic allocated additional funds, primarily to food consumption.
An evaluation of the impact of the USDA’s FFRCA waivers on the WIC program during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on how temporary flexibilities such as remote certification and relaxed physical presence requirements affected participant access, program operations, and staff capacity.
An online hub that connects WIC agencies and their partners through a national Data Matching Community of Practice, offering quarterly virtual convenings to share best practices, case studies, and peer learning on strategies to improve WIC outreach and enrollment.
This event convened policy experts and state leaders to explore how states can operationalize new Medicaid work reporting mandates—covering technical, legal, and implementation challenges.
This slide deck describes the main mechanisms in a dynamic analysis of H.R. 1, explains the changes to SNAP, and explains the macroeconomic effects and budgetary feedback of those changes.
This brief explores the relationship between economic hardship and child welfare involvement, examining how direct cash transfers (DCTs) can reduce child maltreatment and strengthen family stability.
The report reviews the scope and methods of SNAP benefit theft—including card skimming, cloning, phishing, and algorithmic attacks—and examines the effectiveness of state and federal countermeasures.
A report outlining human-centered design strategies to help states implement new federal Medicaid work requirements in ways that minimize coverage loss and administrative burden
