Topic: Policy Analysis
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The How We Need Now: A Capacity Agenda for 2025
This paper outlines the need for comprehensive reforms to improve the U.S. government's capacity to effectively implement policies, focusing on reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies, enhancing workforce structures, and leveraging digital infrastructure.
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Enhanced Unemployment Insurance Benefits in the United States during COVID-19: Equity and Efficiency
This paper concludes that the substantial COVID-19 unemployment insurance expansion had limited disincentive effects on job searches, particularly among lower-income individuals, despite high wage replacement rates.
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Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report 2024
This report reveals a drop in the number of children receiving nutrition over the summer following the loss of pandemic-era waivers.
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Closing Medicaid Coverage Gap Would Help Diverse Groups and Reduce Inequities
Closing the Medicaid coverage gap could significantly reduce healthcare disparities as 65% of those affected are people of color, specifically impacting low-wage workers and caregivers who often experience economic and health vulnerabilities.
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Cash Rules Everything Around Me: A Summary of Existing Research On Guaranteed Income
A literature review summarizing existing research on guaranteed income programs.
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As Pandemic-Era Policies End, Medicaid Programs Focus on Enrollee Access and Reducing Health Disparities Amid Future Uncertainties: Results from an Annual Medicaid Budget Survey for State Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025
This report outlines state Medicaid program priorities, including expanding access to services, addressing health disparities, and implementing cost-containment measures amid post-pandemic uncertainties.
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Nearly 10 Million Households with Adults Ages 50 and Older Participated SNAP in 2022
The article examines the participation of adults aged 50 and older in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2022, highlighting the program's role in reducing food insecurity and poverty among older adults, especially those with disabilities.
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AI and Benefits: When Tech Becomes Policy
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.
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Protect SNAP to Reduce Hunger and Strengthen Local Economies: State-by-State Fact Sheets
These fact sheets provide detailed, state-specific data illustrating SNAP's role in reducing hunger and bolstering local economies across the United States
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Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP
This article analyzes the impact of interview assignment timing on the success of recertification and continued participation in SNAP.
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WIC and Medicaid Collaboration Landscape Toolkit
This toolkit helps state Medicaid and WIC agencies collaborate to increase WIC participation and improve maternal and child health outcomes.
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State Level Options to Mitigate Benefit Cliffs
This report explores policy options Utah and other states can adopt to mitigate benefit cliffs, which occur when small income increases lead to sudden loss of public assistance.