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The Policy Issue
Five Lessons From the Paid Leave Policy Trenches
Wednesday March 11, 2020 / By Vicki Shabo
From Featured , The Policy Issue
Vicki Shabo is a Senior Fellow for Paid Leave Policy and Strategy in New America’s Better Life Lab. How to design easy-to-use and accessible programs... Read More
Putting People Front and Center in Michigan
Wednesday March 11, 2020 / By Jeremy Gantz
From Featured , The Policy Issue
The state’s Children’s Services Agency is overhauling its outdated software system, Jeremy Gantz reports—and the effort promises to free... Read More
Delivery = Policy
Wednesday March 11, 2020 / By Meegan Dugan Bassett
From Featured , The Policy Issue
Meegan Dugan Bassett, Fellow, New America Chicago A brilliant policy isn’t worth much if people can’t figure out how to benefit from it. We need to see delivery... Read More
From Past Issues
“A crisis is also an opportunity to see what we weren’t seeing before”
Monday June 1, 2020 / By Cecilia Muñoz
From Featured , What to do Next
The harsh light of the Covid-19 pandemic has illuminated a lot of things that we weren’t seeing so clearly before: who government aid reaches and who it leaves... Read More
A condensed history of why government websites fail
Monday June 1, 2020 / By Hana Schank
From Featured , What to do Next
While the rest of the world has evolved to a place where we can track anything at all times and order anything from anywhere, government is hopelessly... Read More
Charting a Map to the Future
Monday June 1, 2020 / By Public Interest Technology Team
From Featured , What to do Next
IRS data doesn’t tell us much about who is being helped by stimulus payments. Here’s what the data we really need would look like. When Congress passed... Read More
Helping Governments Push Through the Pandemic
Thursday April 23, 2020 / By Jeremy Gantz
From COVID Resources , Featured
With the virus overwhelming many governments, technologists have jumped into action to build open source tools the public needs now. A new repository collects... Read More
Why Open Source Matters During the Pandemic
Wednesday April 22, 2020 / By Jeremy Gantz
From COVID Resources , Featured
A Q&A with Mark Lerner, who spearheaded the creation of New America’s new Pandemic Response Repository Earlier this month, after a frenzied few weeks... Read More
The Commons: COVID-19 2nd Edition
Thursday March 26, 2020 / By The Commons
From COVID Resources , Featured
Members of The Commons, If your inbox is anything like ours it is overflowing with other people’s ideas and inventions aimed at tracking and slowing... Read More