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Congress appropriated $25 billion for the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Program, which provides assistance with rent and utilities to households that have lost income or experienced other financial hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to…

Indonesia needed to adopt environmentally sustainable, low-carbon economic growth for its 250 million people. Among other things, it needed better land-use planning. As part of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Green Prosperity (GP) Project, the…

Households around the U.S. face growing housing affordability challenges. While there are important roles for the federal and state governments to play in addressing this problem, many of the most critical policy solutions can only be adopted at the…

In late 2014, the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) was awarded a federal Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG) to expand high-quality early childhood education to more than 800 4-year-old children per year in five underserved…

One in three Australians will experience mental health issues in their lifetime, but accessing services has historically been difficult and stigmatized. As part of the National Mental Health reform, Primary Health Networks have commissioned locally…

Some Cambodian parents fear they can’t give their kids food, clothes, and education – a future. So these desperate parents hand their children over to orphanages, though they aren’t orphans. The children often face poor care and family separation at best…

Power plants’ cooling systems often are located along coastal waterways and use large amounts of water from oceans, bays and estuaries. As millions of tiny aquatic organisms in the water such as fish eggs and larvae pass through the power plant, the heat…

Many medium and large cities in developing countries lack the capacity to adequately manage solid waste. Limited awareness of best practices for waste management and lack of access to key technical resources are key barriers to improvement. 

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) oversees federal efforts to resettle refugees and help them become self-sufficient. ORR administers the Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) program, which…

In 2019, the Natural Resource Defense Council and other organizations filed suit against the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), alleging violations of the Clean Water Act’s (CWA) statutes regarding discharge of hazardous substances. EPA and the…