Governors Seek Ways for Their States to Address Challenges From Rural Poverty
Better education, they say, is the critical element needed to improve lives in impoverished areas.
States, Localities Try Creative Financing to Help the Homeless
Pay-for-success projects, which rely on outside investors—rather than taxpayers—to provide working capital to nonprofit service providers, are trying to tackle thorny social problems.
UNC Set to Host Seminars on Using Analytics for Better Policymaking
Initial topics include child welfare and managed care.
Seattle’s Roadmap to 21st Century Community Policing
“Mayors must own this,” says the director of the Justice Department’s Community-Oriented Policing Services Office.
New Work Requirements Put Food Stamps at Risk
More than 500,000 people could lose food stamps in 22 states reinstating work requirements. Few states have employment programs ready to help them get back on their feet.
Illinois Budget Impasse Drags On Into 2016
And that’s having a big impact on cash-strapped businesses, residents, institutions and non-profit organizations that depend on state payments.
Los Angeles to Hire Vets, Homeless, Former Gang Members; Missouri Inmates Ask for the Gas Chamber
Also: Pittsburgh goes after bad landlords and there’s no way to know who’s doling out construction contracts to whom in the New Mexico legislature.
Focusing on Early Intervention to Ensure Childhood Wellness
King County, Washington, is developing what officials say is the most comprehensive early childhood development program in the nation. “It starts earlier and lasts longer.”
This State Involved Foster Youth in Its Data Outreach to Other Foster Youth
But will New York continue its award-winning Peer Caller Program now that it’s gone with a new contractor?
States Grapple with Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
Advocates say there aren’t enough juvenile justice programs targeted to girls, whose needs are often more complex than boys’.
State Lotteries Look to Protect Their Image
There’s a new program to promote “responsible gambling” amid ongoing criticism that lotteries prey on the poor.
Left With Few Fiscal Options, Another Pennsylvania Locality Turns to Borrowing
A state budget stalemate has turned off a funding spigot for Northampton County, which plans to use borrowed cash to stave off human services cuts.
Pa.’s Budget War Puts More Programs in Jeopardy; Next Steps for Ohio Minimum Wage Plan
Also: Investigating county jail problems in Kansas City and Airbnb’s impacts on a small town.
Jurors Order Gun Shop to Pay $6 Million in Damages; Senator Aims to Outlaw Unloading of Adopted Kids
Also: One-third of Louisiana’s uninsured fall into coverage gap and Seattle highway tunnel crews set to start enormous soggy drilling project again.
Why Utah’s State Government Leads the Nation in Offering Services Online
Hint: It’s about creating simple processes for citizens to interact with government and keeping costs down.
How Heroin is Hitting the Foster Care System
The number of children in foster care is on the rise. States say heroin abuse by parents is a growing reason why.
Miami’s New ‘Housing First’ Approach for Homelessness; Nevada Breathes a Sigh of Relief
Also: More criticism of Port Authority management in New York and New Jersey and white nationalists buy up land in Kansas and Nebraska towns.
This App-Enabled Public-Private Partnership Wants to Become Silicon Valley’s Hunger Buster
Government and nonprofits are working together to identify predictable sources of surplus food.
Orange County Turns to Big Data in Effort to Remake Child Support Services
Computers assign something like future competence scores to parents. Dystopian or an effective tool for better case management?
What the Feds Say About Homeless Encampments
An interagency group recommends against local governments forcibly clearing out tent cities.
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