Early Childhood Education Implementation Working Group
Developing outreach strategies for identifying and enrolling residents eligible for tax credits in Colorado
Using human services administrative data to connect eligible residents to tax credits in Illinois
Using Human Services administrative data to better connect eligible residents to tax credits in Illinois
Memo to Policy Councils: Improving SSI and Social Security Benefits to Reduce Child Poverty
In combination with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the New Practice Lab team drafted a policy on steps the Social Security Administration could take to reduce child povery by improving enrollment in Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for children.
Memo to CPAL: Potential Use of Medical Financial Partnerships and Managed Care Organizations
The policy team offered a memo to the Child Poverty Action Lab on the potential use of medical financial partnerships and managed care organizations.
Mapping the landscape of knowledge on barriers to tax filing and credit claiming
Mapping the landscape of knowledge on barriers to tax filing and credit claiming
Learning about Direct File's Spanish version user experience
Listening Project: Spanish-Speaking Users of IRS Direct File
Retrospective: Childcare and Paid Leave in Build Back Better Legislative Text Versions
In order to understand the successes and failures of the Build Back Better Act, the policy team facilitated a retrospective with a number of experts to post-mortem the bill language and activites that were completed to improve the text - identifying what helped to strengthen the language, areas where we'll still need to improve the way certain components are written, and topics that need further research.
Input to Senator Wyden: "End Confusing Government Services Act"
The New Practice Lab team was asked to provide input on a drafted bill to improve and enable more customer research under the Paperwork Reduction Act for Senator Wyden's office.
Mapping the family experience and underlying tech in Massachusetts Early Childhood Education
Mapping the family experience and underlying tech in Massachusetts Early Childhood Education
Piloting benefits navigators in New Jersey
Increasing uptake of maternity leave through navigators in healthcare settings
State of New Jersey Department of Labor
Oct 2024 - Present
Input to Senator Murray: "Child Care for Working Families Act"
The policy team provided redline feedback for Senator Patty Murray's office on the drafted Child Care for Working Families Act.
Improving verification and leave certification processes for paid family and medical leave in Minnesota
Improving verification and leave certification processes for paid family and medical leave in Minnesota
Thriving Families at the New Practice Lab
Families across the United States—especially those with young children—are struggling. Child care costs are skyrocketing, rising at a faster rate than inflation. Concurrently, the cost of living remains high, forcing many families to live paycheck to paycheck. Though designed to support families, policy in this country often fails to address root causes of poverty, and poor delivery leaves families disconnected from critical supports, keeping too many families from achieving economic stability.
Memo to Treasury: Increasing Refundable Tax Credit Uptake
As a follow-up to a meeting hosted by Treasury and IRS, NPL offered a memo with ideas on increasing uptake for outreach and credit uptake strategies for those undertaking tax credits.