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In this blog, we offer tips to help states meets CMS’s goal of transitioning Medicaid managed care beneficiaries to accountable care relationships.

Abt explains how the Biden administration’s Initiative for Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness addresses findings from our study of homeless encampments.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

This blog sheds new qualitative context to New York City’s poverty data, describing challenges the city’s citizens face.

The need for governments at all levels to connect with citizens they serve and the means for doing so have evolved over the past decade.