Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) agencies are operating in a challenging post-recession environment, with growing program demands and shrinking state and local budgets.

This article presents long-term cumulative statistics on the extent to which individuals who began receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability payments from 1996 through 2006 found work and used SSI work incentives. Among the 2001 award cohort, for which the richest data are...

This article examines the proportion of small practices and providers in primary care, as well as the characteristics of their patients and communities and their participation in new models of health care delivery.

Primary care can be considered the cornerstone of effective and efficient health care that meets the needs of patients, families, and communities. New resources authored by Mathematica’s health experts offer strategies to help build and sustain practices’ ability to continuously...

This brief discusses the potential for self-reported health measures to serve as data inputs for predictive modeling tools for state Medicaid agencies. The results are encouraging, finding that a simple series of self-reported health measures meets established statistical thresholds for...

This brief presents recommendations created as part of the Research Development Project on the Human Service Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Populations.

This brief presents findings on informal caregivers’ and parents’ networks, focusing on child care arrangements and sources of support and information related to caregiv¬ing from a small sample of informal caregiv¬ers and parents in California’s Bay Area. It uses an...

This brief describes how two federally sponsored Healthy Marriage programs—which primarily aim to improve the relationships of parenting couples—integrated a focus on job and career advancement into their services. It also explores the role these services played in meeting the...

The Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration supports states’ efforts to help Medicaid beneficiaries living in long-term care facilities transition back to the community.