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The Safety Net We’d Build Today: Empowerment Accounts as a State-Led Pilot Concept
An empowerment account would consolidate the funding from multiple of these fragmented programs into a single, streamlined benefit – delivered monthly, tied to work or training, and designed to phase out gradually as earnings rise rather than collapsing at a…
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Who American Voters Trust to Run Elections – A Sutherland Institute/Y2 Analytics Survey
If lawmakers strive to craft their reforms by advancing competent and accountable election administration, they may find the legislative success that they are looking for.
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Tinker or transform: The new welfare reform movement
America’s social welfare system needs an aspirational vision. A vision that allows for exploration of new ways to conceptualize a social welfare system.
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Utah Housing Reforms that Garner Public Support
As Utah lawmakers head into the legislative interim period, housing affordability will remain a top concern for Utah families, just as it is an ongoing national focus.
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The Upward Mobility Act: A state solutions framework for benefit cliffs
America’s social welfare system is intended to provide needed, temporary stabilization to families striving to escape poverty, while helping them move back into stable employment and self-reliance.
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Freeing the States on Campaign Finance
The proposed For Our Freedom Amendment is currently the most important innovation in campaign finance regulation.
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Missing Anchors: How some men drift from health, vocation, and purpose
For too long, the struggles some men in modern society face have gone unmeasured, unreported, and unaddressed. We must better comprehend the struggling subset of men in America.
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Talking about Religion in a Secular Age: How Religious “Nones” Perceive the Value of Religion
This report examines an experimental survey that enlightens our understanding of religiously unaffiliated Americans (“nones”) and their perceptions of religion’s societal role.
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How Religion Strengthens Family Life in a Fragmented Age: Religion and the American Experiment, Volume 3
The evidence is overwhelming and cross-cultural: Religious families demonstrate stability, strong intergenerational bonds, positive economic outcomes, and desirable child development across diverse traditions and contexts.
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How Faith Communities Promote Societal Well-Being and Public Health: Religion and the American Experiment, Volume 2
Religious communities – synagogues, churches, mosques, temples – remain among the few enduring places where body, mind, and spirit are integrated into a coherent path of care and purpose.