With contributions from Rebecca Cokley, Director, Disability Justice Initiative Public health insurance programs are vast policies with many differences from state to state. It can be difficult to understand the effects of potential changes and why they are so critical for families. One group that is especially affected by changes to SCHIP and Medicaid are…
With contributions from Judy Solomon, Senior Fellow Medicaid coverage differs vastly from state to state and these differences matter to people’s health, economic security, and livelihood. When states gained the option to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in 2014, it provided an excellent opportunity to study the impact of this policy by comparing…
Last week, CMS announced a new program – Healthy Adult Opportunity – that would allow states to opt into a new funding program for Medicaid that offers a spending cap or block grant. To better understand the new program, read this review by NPR or this one by The New York Times. Kaiser Health News also put together…
With contributions from Samantha Artiga, Director, Disparities Policy Project The Kaiser Family Foundation focuses on national health issues through policy analysis, journalism, and communications. KFF serves as a non-partisan source of facts, analysis, and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community, and the public. Let’s start with a high-level overview of Medicaid – its…
The Urban Institute compiles research on the impacts of work requirements for safety net programs, including Medicaid, TANF, and SNAP. Here is a roundup of some of their work: Urban Institute compilation of research on work requirements Lessons for Medicaid from TANF and SNAP work requirements What happens when a state institutes Medicaid work requirements?…
What you need to know about public charge GCIR’s brief on what philanthropy can do to protect immigrant families Urban Institute report on how the public charge rule change affects safety net access NILC and CLASP came together to create a hub for information on public charge advocacy What you need to know about immigrant…
Policy and Advocacy Starting Place: Building Public Will Contributed by: Cornelia Grumman, Education Director, Robert R. McCormick Foundation Public will-building strategies are an essential component of systemic reform of early education, and an integral part of our Education Program grantmaking strategy at the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. We’ve approached this from a few angles. First, we work…
Policy and Advocacy Starting Place: Training Community Policy Advocates Contributed by: Bia Vieira, Chief Strategist, Programs, The Women’s Foundation of California 17 years ago, The Women’s Foundation of California realized that if we were ever really going to make positive change on behalf of cisgender and transgender women, non-binary and genderqueer people and transgender men and…
In early 2019, the Roundtable fielded a survey of funders to explore children and family policy priorities and strategies. The results provide insight into some of the ideas most on the minds of funders. We are releasing survey results in a periodic blog post. Policy Opportunities Survey Results — Forms of Policy Advocacy Funding The…
Policy and Advocacy Starting Place: Data Analysis Capacity Contributed by: Noah Berger, Director of Policy Advocacy and Reform, The Annie E. Casey Foundation The Annie E. Casey Foundation is committed to building a brighter future for the nation’s children by developing solutions that strengthen families, build paths to economic opportunity and transform struggling communities into…