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San Francisco tries tough love by tying welfare to drug rehab
May 13, 2024 | News, ManagementStarting in January 2025, public assistance recipients who screen positive for addiction on a 10-question drug abuse test will be referred to treatment. Those who refuse or fail to show up for treatment will lose their benefits.
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Report: State by state, how segregation legally continues 7 decades post Brown
| News, ManagementResearchers unveil loopholes, laws and a lack of protections allowing Black, brown, low-income students to be excluded from America’s most coveted schools.
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Amid a housing crisis, hospitals offer a dose of relief
May 10, 2024 | Management, NewsThe housing crisis may be too big for state and local governments to overcome. That’s why hospitals are stepping in to remedy housing and health care gaps.
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Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions
| News, ManagementA new analysis shows that, for the second year in a row, students graduating from U.S. medical schools were less likely to apply this year for residency positions in states with abortion bans and other significant abortion restrictions.
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What’s the poop? Wastewater data predicts overdoses
May 09, 2024 | News, ManagementAnalyzing wastewater samples can help public health workers paint a reliable picture of a community’s rapidly evolving drug use that can be used to get ahead of overdoses.
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Amid campus protests nationwide, DC’s response stands out
May 08, 2024 | News, ManagementThe capital city’s police department cleared an encampment at a local university following pressure from House Republicans to be more forceful. But the District’s reluctance to take action sooner underlies lessons officials learned decades ago about the perils of aggressive… Read More »
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Easing the housing squeeze on low-income renters
May 07, 2024 | News, ManagementThe State and Local Innovation project will work with policymakers to draft bill language and leverage data and best practices to keep the lowest income renters in stable housing.
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Montana could be a model as more GOP states weigh Medicaid work requirements
| Management, NewsThe state has a program that can help Medicaid enrollees get job training, career guidance.
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‘Extremely dangerous’: Governors criticize ‘federalization’ of National Guard
| News, ManagementGovernors from 53 U.S. states and territories object to the Defense Department's plan to move all Air National Guardsman with space-related missions from state to federal control, placing them under the umbrella of the U.S. Air Force, specifically the Space… Read More »
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How local governments can respond to the housing crisis
May 06, 2024 | News, ManagementA new book by Charles Marohn and Daniel Herriges of Strong Towns encourages local officials to promote small-scale developments, even if it means using city financial tools to get them off the ground.