Topic: Policy
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Policy Skimming: Tackling SNAP Benefit Theft
The article highlights the growing issue of SNAP benefit theft through skimming and advocates for permanent security measures and benefit replacements to protect vulnerable households.
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Automation + AI AI-Powered SNAP Modernization: Analysis of Policy Issues Impacting the Use of Artificial Intelligence in SNAP Case Processing
This publication unpacks the rapidly evolving policy landscape surrounding the use of AI in SNAP case processing.
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Policy Medicaid Threats in the Upcoming Congress
This paper focuses on harmful legislative Medicaid proposals that have been floated in the past and that Congress should continue to resist.
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Policy Community Navigators Can Increase Access to Unemployment Benefits and New Jobs While Building Worker Power
Evidence from the Maine Peer Workforce Navigator program shows that workers and government can benefit from well-designed community partnerships.
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Policy The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Housing Affordability and the Living Arrangements of Families With Low Incomes
In this article, the authors examine the impact of the 2021 temporary expansion to the Child Tax Credit (CTC) on housing affordability and the living arrangements of families with low incomes.
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Human-Centered Design BenCon 2024 Recap
A recap of the two-day conference focused on charting the course to excellence in digital benefits delivery hosted at Georgetown University and online.
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Policy 2024 State of WIC Report
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.
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Policy Digital Benefits Beacons: Where Policy Meets Practice at BenCon 2024
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.
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Policy Digital Benefit Beacons: Where Policy Meets Practice at BenCon 2024
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.
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Human-Centered Design 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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Policy Family Benefits in America: 2023 Report Card
This report calculates the cumulative impact of major benefit programs on two types of families and how their benefits change as they move into the labor market and climb the ladder of upward mobility.
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Policy 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.