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April Yanyuan Wu; Denise Hoffman; Paul O'Leary – Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2025
Our study is the first to provide statistics on opioid use among U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants. We use an innovative machine-learning method to identify opioids in open-ended text fields in SSDI administrative data. We find that more than 30% of applicants between 2007 and 2017 reported using one or more opioids, a…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Use, Disabilities, Federal Programs
Emily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
Free school meal access has become increasingly intertwined with federal social safety net programs--including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)--to reduce duplicative paperwork for schools. The changes to SNAP that House Republicans have proposed would have downstream effects on free school meal access. The proposed changes to…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Political Attitudes, Eligibility
Neetu Arnold; Mason Goad; Teresa Manning; David Randall; Nathaniel Urban – National Association of Scholars, 2025
This report sheds a new light on the history of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), its abuses of policy, and recommendations for a path forward. The report's evidence, and the long-term political dispositions of America's citizenry, supports the wholesale reform of ED, but not its elimination. The authors have structured their report in this…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Agencies, Administrative Organization, History
W. Steven Barnett; Kwanghee Jung – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2024
We investigated the extent to which practices considered developmentally appropriate and inappropriate varied by preschool program auspice (private, public school, and Head Start). Survey data from a 2010 national sample of 2,664 teachers of 4-year-olds provided teacher reports on the frequency of seven practices (e.g., offering children choices…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Teachers
Institute for College Access & Success, 2022
On August 24, 2022, President Biden announced that his administration would be cancelling $10,000 -- $20,000 of student debt for middle- and lower-income borrowers. Naturally, this announcement has unleashed a wave of follow-up questions among borrowers. This fact sheet is intended to help Californians with student loans navigate the process of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Loan Repayment, Debt (Financial), Public Policy
Bell, Stephen H.; Stapleton, David C.; Wood, Michelle; Gubits, Daniel – American Journal of Evaluation, 2023
A randomized experiment that measures the impact of a social policy in a sample of the population reveals whether the policy will work on average with universal application. An experiment that includes only the subset of the population that volunteers for the intervention generates narrower "proof-of-concept" evidence of whether the…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Policy Formation, Federal Programs, Social Services
Nabeel Alsalam; Elizabeth Ash; Brooks Pierce – Congressional Budget Office, 2024
Recent changes to the federal student loan program will affect student loan borrowing, repayment, and debt. Payments on student loans, which were suspended during the coronavirus pandemic, restarted in October 2023. A new repayment plan introduced in August 2023 will significantly reduce interest accrual and payments for certain borrowers.…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Loan Repayment, Budgets, Federal Programs
Blake H. Heller; Kirsten Slungaard Mumma – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
In 2000, federally funded public adult education programs provided basic skills training and English language instruction to over 2.6 million students, or about 1.5% of the U.S. adult population. By 2021, enrollment had plummeted to under 900,000, or less than 0.4% of adults. What explains these declines? This policy brief describes the evolution…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, English Learners, Enrollment Rate
Bickford, John H., III; Gillespie, Michael D. – Social Studies, 2023
This study examined students' encounters with and responses to poverty-based experiential learning during an undergraduate sociology class. Students' academic readings and experiencing real-life context were channeled through reflective analysis of public policy's implications. Students' writing, which had reflective and diagnostic elements, was…
Descriptors: Poverty, Undergraduate Students, Sociology, Experiential Learning
Emily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
House Republicans have passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which now goes to the Senate for consideration. The goal is to pass the bill by July, though final content and timeline are subject to change. The bill puts forth several changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aimed at reducing federal spending…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, Lunch Programs
Kelly Collins – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The higher education access of poor, low-income, and working-class students is a powerful lever in combating poverty, promoting social mobility, and enhancing quality of life across socioeconomic strata. The college access of low-income students has been studied primarily through examinations of support infrastructures and the college-going…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Tuition, Access to Education, Low Income Students
Finlay, Keith; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Street, Brittany – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023
This study provides the first empirical evidence on the extent of self-employment within the U.S. justice-involved population. Using linked tax return and Criminal Justice Administrative Records System data, we find that 28 percent of individuals with criminal records are self-employed. Justice-involved individuals are 22 percent more likely to…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Self Employment, Criminals
Williams, Kristin S. – Qualitative Research Journal, 2021
Purpose: Ficto-feminism is offered here as a creative method for feminist historical inquiry in management and organizational studies (MOSs). Design/methodology/approach: This paper introduces a new method called ficto-feminism. Using feminist polemics as a starting point, ficto-feminism fuses aspects of collective biography with the emic…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Feminism, History, Biographies
First Focus on Children, 2025
Budgets are moral documents, reflecting our priorities as a nation by deciding where to allocate resources. Congress is targeting cuts and policy changes that limit access to health care, nutrition programs, and basic financial stability for millions of children, including Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the…
Descriptors: Budgets, Federal Aid, Retrenchment, Resource Allocation
Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2019
Today, nine out of 10 Americans age 65 and older depend on Social Security benefits to lead a comfortable and secure retirement. Among all Americans over age 65, Social Security makes up more than half of their household income. This brief outlines the history of Social Security benefits in the public sector, describes the safe harbor rule and how…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Federal Programs, Public Policy