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Oct 25, 2022
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May 13, 2024
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Oct 21, 2024
In Virginia, the rules for minors seeking abortion care have many burdensome implications for clinics, hospitals, and patients. This raises an important question: Is this what Virginia lawmakers intended?
Press
Sep 23, 2024
A new online tool allows state policymakers and other stakeholders to estimate the potential cost of expanding state health insurance programs to include individuals who do not qualify solely due to immigration status, a strategy already adopted by many states as a way to extend health coverage to more people.
The authors describe the data and methodology used to develop an online tool that allows state policymakers and stakeholders to estimate the enrollment and cost implications of expanding Medicaid or Marketplace-like coverage to ineligible immigrants.
Tool
This tool allows users to view health insurance coverage by state as of September 2024 for immigrants who are ineligible for federally funded programs and to calculate the estimated enrollment and costs for covering immigrant populations.
Over the 20 years that same-sex couples have been able to marry in the United States, there have been no negative effects on marriage, divorce or cohabitation among different-sex couples.
Research Summary
Twenty years after the first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts, this brief describes the effects of legalizing marriage for same-sex couples in the United States on family formation among the general U.S. population.
Twenty years after the first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts, this brief describes the effects of legalizing marriage for same-sex couples in the United States on LGBT individuals and their children.
Twenty years after the first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts, this report provides an evidence review and new analyses of the effects of granting legal status to marriages of same-sex couples in the United States.
Jul 15, 2022
The Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will affect much more than women's access to abortions. Abortions allowed women to escape abusive and even deadly relationships. Now that door is closing, state by state.
Data Viz
Apr 7, 2022
This Lessons Map is an aid to navigating five case studies produced by RAND Europe for the Bernard van Leer Foundation on efforts to make changes at scale in the area of early childhood development.
Apr 4, 2022
For more than a quarter century, the U.S. government has been sending an unmistakable message to poor, single mothers: Get married. If America genuinely wants to address poverty and achieve gender equality, this has to change.
Feb 8, 2022
Amid the debate over whether the success of the expanded child tax credit in reducing poverty is worth its large price tag, many are missing a crucial feature: It was uniquely well-designed to address the increasingly precarious economic reality that millions of Americans experience.
