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Homelessness touches every community, urban, suburban, and rural. And most communities already know what solutions the evidence suggests. Housing First, permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing: the research is not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is whether…
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CTF’s outcomes rate card rewards high-performing home visiting providers and helps deliver better health outcomes for mothers and children.
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States collect an enormous amount of administrative data that can sharpen service delivery and drive evidence-based policymaking and resource allocation. But the data needed to answer priority policy questions sits across several different agencies with…
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The unglamorous tools that give employees time back in their day may not generate headlines, but they help get government moving more efficiently.
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Every year, governments invest billions of dollars in early childhood programs and collect enormous amounts of data about them. Yet too often, that data is used to satisfy reporting requirements rather than answering a more…
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A New Jersey foundation tried paying grantees for results instead of programs, unleashing both greater creativity and improved outcomes.
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A small bump in income can cost a family far more in lost public assistance, leading some to forgo opportunity. There are some promising efforts to get at the problem.
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