Evidence-based – Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy

Chapin Hall Announces RFP: Using Linked Data to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking

Administrative Data, AISP Network, Evidence-based Policy, IDS, IDS Uses, Social Policy Innovation / Tian McPherson

Government policymakers and program managers at the Federal, State, and local levels are under increasing pressure to ensure that their programs are achieving better results at lower cost. In many programs serving vulnerable populations, policymakers and managers lack access to information about what outcomes programs are achieving and to evaluations that can inform policy decisions […]

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CMS Releases Medicare Data for Quality-Based Metrics

Administrative Data, Evidence-based services, IDS, IDS Uses, Research, Social Impact / Tian McPherson

CMS has released new data on ethnic and racial backgrounds of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, which will allow for analysis related to quality-based metrics within various populations. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is further attempting to innovate and improve medicine through quality-based metrics, as the CMS Office of Minority Health has released new

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J-PAL North America launches health care delivery innovation competition

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MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America has launched a new Health Care Delivery Innovation Competition that will support U.S. federal, state, and local health agencies and other health care organizations in developing compelling and reliable evidence of the impact of innovative programs. The J-PAL Health Care Delivery Innovation Competition will support visionary health

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Everything you need to know about the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking

Administrative Data, Evidence-based Policy, Government Agencies, IDS, News, Social Policy Innovation / Tian McPherson

If you thought that Democrats and Republicans couldn’t agree on anything, you were wrong. In an era of perhaps unprecedented partisanship in Washington, DC, every moment of collaborative policymaking is notable. That’s why we should take a moment to celebrate the bipartisan bill President Obama signed into law to start a federal Commission on Evidence-Based

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Protecting and enhancing the role of evidence: Interview with Kathy Stack of LJAF

Evidence-based Policy, Evidence-based services, Federal Regulations, Government Agencies, Resourceful Partners & Organizations, Social Policy Innovation / Tian McPherson

What works: A new emphasis on evidence in the US Kathy Stack retired from federal service last year after 34 years (prior to OMB, she served for six years at the Department for Education). Not for her, though, the sunlit uplands of retirement. Instead, she headed for the Laura and John Arnold Foundation – a

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New York City’s Turnaround on Poverty

Administrative Data, Evidence-based Policy, Government Agencies, IDS, IDS Uses, Social Impact, Social Policy Innovation / Tian McPherson

In America’s biggest cities, more and more Americans are now living in poverty. From 2000 to 2013, the poverty rate in America’s 20 largest cities grew by 36 percent, to an average of 22.7 percent. Nationally, the poverty rate has risen too, from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 14.8 percent in 2014. But there’s one

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Laura and John Arnold Foundation launches $15 million competition to use evidence-based programs to “move the needle” on major social problems

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HOUSTON, TX—As part of its effort to encourage governments to make decisions based on rigorous research and reliable evidence, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) today launched the Moving the Needle Competition, which will provide funding for state and local governments and nonprofit organizations that implement highly effective social programs in an effort to

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Dennis Culhane and John Fantuzzo Awarded $1.9M for AISP and IDS Research

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Two grants, totaling nearly $2 million, have been awarded to University of Pennsylvania professors Dennis Culhane and John Fantuzzo, enabling the continued development and expanded use of Integrated Data Systems, or IDS, for evidence-based policymaking through the Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, or AISP, initiative. IDS link existing administrative data across multiple agencies and community

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UW-Madison to open Federal Statistical Research Data Center

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Interdisciplinary research with the potential to inform policymaking will receive a huge boost Sept. 21 with the dedication of a new University of Wisconsin-Madison Federal Statistical Research Data Center, or FSRDC, on the UW campus. The data enclave, the only such facility in the state, is a branch location of an existing FSRDC at the

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Individuals Involved in the Allegheny County Homelessness System

Administrative Data, AISP Network, IDS Uses / Tian McPherson

This report describes individuals who experienced a housing crisis in Allegheny County from 2009 through 2013, with a particular focus on the 2009 entry cohort. In 2014, the Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) conducted a review of its homelessness services system as a first step in planning for and promoting comprehensive strategies for

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Families Involved in the Allegheny County Homelessness System

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This report describes Allegheny County families who experienced a housing crisis from 2009 through 2013, with a particular focus on the 2009 entry cohort. In 2014, the Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) conducted a review of its homelessness services system as a first step in planning for and promoting effective strategies for reducing

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Linking survey and administrative data better gauges impact of federal anitpovery efforts

Administrative Data, Evidence-based services, Government Agencies, IDS Uses / Tian McPherson

Linking survey data with administrative records will enable the federal government to better gauge the effectiveness of social welfare programs such as food stamps and federal housing assistance, as well as the overall reach of federal antipoverty initiatives, Bruce D. Meyer today told a session audience at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM 2015) in

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OMB’s Kathy Stack’s Impact on Government Shouldn’t be Overlooked

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Kathy Stack retired after 34 years in government on Feb. 20. Most people probably never heard of her, saw her speak or even understand the impact she had on the management of government. But Stack, who spent the last 28 years at the Office of Management and Budget, was the quiet leader behind the move

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