In 2004, Florida’s Department of Children and Families modernized its approach to administering the food stamp, cash assistance, and Medicaid programs by replacing the caseworker model with ACCESS Florida, a technology-driven system emphasizing self-service. This report examines ACCESS Florida...

Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs) are self-managed accounts of $3,000 offered to select recipients of Unemployment Insurance benefits to support individual choice and control in reemployment services and promote a quick return to work. PRAs can be used to purchase training, intensive career...

This paper examines employment-focused policies in the U.S. disability system and summarizes rigorous evaluations of return-to-work supports targeted to people with disabilities. Several empirically validated approaches to providing return-to-work services to people with disabilities in the...

This brief, the second in a series, evaluates the impacts of the Accelerated Benefits Demonstration, which provides earlier access to health coverage and related services to uninsured beneficiaries. Early findings indicate that the demonstration increased the use of health care services and...

In this article Mathematica's family support experts present final findings from a large-scale, random assignment evaluation of Building Strong Families (BSF), a program offering relationship skills education to low-income, unmarried parents who are expecting or recently had a baby. The study...

Diabetes is a chronic medical condition that can lead to serious complications, including blindness, lower-limb amputations, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease. Since the 1950s, rates of diabetes have increased significantly across the country. This brief summarizes a study commissioned...

Applied research aims to provide answers to "real world" questions. Whether that research is used in the real world to encourage innovation and change, however, has typically not been a major research focus. The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Integrated Delivery Systems...