Policy Brief

New America partnered with Eviction Lab to understand how eviction affects parents who are attending college while caring for children.

Wage supplements—in the form of, for example, bonuses, stipends, or tax credits—are gaining traction as ways to improve compensation in the child care and early education field. This brief explains how they can enhance retention and reduce turnover.

Social service programs are often looking for ways to assess and improve program design and implementation, and are increasingly using rapid learning methods to do so.

This document summarizes what was learned in SIRF (Strengthening the Implementation of Responsible Fatherhood Programs), which engaged 10 programs in using learning cycles—repeated periods of implementing ideas and reflecting on the results—to build evidence on practices to improve the enrollment, e

Successful diabetes care for vulnerable populations demands a multi-prong approach, deploying direct health interventions, medications, and support from a range of community resources to address the social determinants, which impact diabetes.

Approximately one in five adults reported experiencing household food insecurity in both spring 2020 and again in summer 2022, after a decline in reported food insecurity in spring 2021.

Disabled individuals and families in federally assisted housing face multiple challenges in gaining access to housing units and services that meet their needs—despite legal frameworks meant to help them.