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Veterans Program For Politics And Civic Engagement, J. Michael Haynie, David M. Van Slyke
Veterans Program For Politics And Civic Engagement, J. Michael Haynie, David M. Van Slyke
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
The Veterans Program for Politics and Civic Engagement (VPPCE) is an intensive, non-partisan training program for veterans and military spouses with an interest in pursuing careers in politics. Launched in 2019, the program is a collaboration between Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) and the top-ranked Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. The curriculum is tailored to help participants explore careers in politics, prepare them to run a campaign, and succeed thereafter. Most importantly, the program facilitates those who previously served in our nation’s defense to continue a second career in public service.
Prenatal Care For Undocumented Immigrants: Implications For Policy, Practice, And Ethics, Rachel Fabi
Prenatal Care For Undocumented Immigrants: Implications For Policy, Practice, And Ethics, Rachel Fabi
Population Health Research Brief Series
Nearly 250,000 babies are born each year to undocumented immigrant parents in the U.S. These babies are U.S. citizens, but undocumented immigrants are ineligible for most public insurance, making it difficult for them to access prenatal care. This research brief describes restrictive policies related to prenatal care for undocumented immigrants and discusses how these policies affect health care providers and the care they are able to offer pregnant immigrant women.
Innovation In State Level Veterans Services: A Comprehensive Review, Case Highlights, And An Agenda For Enhanced State Impact, Zachary Huitink, Nicholas Armstrong, Nathaniel Birnbaum, Ryan Van Slyke
Innovation In State Level Veterans Services: A Comprehensive Review, Case Highlights, And An Agenda For Enhanced State Impact, Zachary Huitink, Nicholas Armstrong, Nathaniel Birnbaum, Ryan Van Slyke
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This technical report provides a comprehensive analysis of all 50 states. It gives insight into leading practices in veteran service delivery, describes how innovative policy is diffusing across state governments, and highlights ten of the top states in providing services to veterans at the state level.
Implementation Assessment Of Executive Order 13518: The Veterans Employment Initiative (Executive Summary), Nicholas Armstrong, Rosalinda V. Maury, Zachary S. Huitink, Matthew Hidek, Nathaniel Birnbaum, Rachel Linsner, Fitore Hyseni
Implementation Assessment Of Executive Order 13518: The Veterans Employment Initiative (Executive Summary), Nicholas Armstrong, Rosalinda V. Maury, Zachary S. Huitink, Matthew Hidek, Nathaniel Birnbaum, Rachel Linsner, Fitore Hyseni
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
This is the Executive Summary of a report which documents the results of a year-long, independent study to assess the policy implementation of the government’s Veterans Employment Initiative (VEI). The study considers the initiative’s efficacy and impact, identifies successful practices, strategies and opportunities for improvement. This assessment also offers recommendations to senior policymakers and agency leaders on how to best position the VEI for future success.
Implementation Assessment Of Executive Order 13518: The Veterans Employment Initiative (Full Technical Report), Nicholas Armstrong, Rosalinda V. Maury, Zachary S. Huitink, Matthew Hidek, Rachel Linsner, Nathaniel Birnbaum, Fitore Hyseni
Implementation Assessment Of Executive Order 13518: The Veterans Employment Initiative (Full Technical Report), Nicholas Armstrong, Rosalinda V. Maury, Zachary S. Huitink, Matthew Hidek, Rachel Linsner, Nathaniel Birnbaum, Fitore Hyseni
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
This report documents the results of a year-long, independent study to assess the policy implementation of the government’s Veterans Employment Initiative (VEI). The study considers the initiative’s efficacy and impact; identifies successful practices, implementation strategies, and opportunities for improvement; and offers recommendations to senior policymakers and agency leaders on how best to position the initiative for future success.
Implementation Assessment Of Executive Order 13518: The Veterans Employment Initiative, Nicholas Armstrong, Zachary S. Huitink, Rosalinda V. Maury, Matthew Hidek, Nathaniel Birnbaum, Rachel Linsner, Fitore Hyseni
Implementation Assessment Of Executive Order 13518: The Veterans Employment Initiative, Nicholas Armstrong, Zachary S. Huitink, Rosalinda V. Maury, Matthew Hidek, Nathaniel Birnbaum, Rachel Linsner, Fitore Hyseni
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
A year-long study to assess the implementation of Executive Order (EO) 13518, Veterans Employment in the Federal Government. Signed on November, 9, 2009, EO 13518 created the Veterans Employment Initiative (VEI), one of the most comprehensive efforts in U.S. history to increase veterans’ employment in U.S. federal agencies.
A National Veterans Strategy: The Economic, Social And Security Imperative, Nicholas Armstrong, J. Michael Haynie
A National Veterans Strategy: The Economic, Social And Security Imperative, Nicholas Armstrong, J. Michael Haynie
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
This publication details the foundational logic supporting a call to action, related to a broad-based effort to articulate and institutionalize a National Veterans Strategy.
The Effect Of Disability Insurance On Health Investment: Evidence From The Va Disability Compensation Program, Perry Singleton
The Effect Of Disability Insurance On Health Investment: Evidence From The Va Disability Compensation Program, Perry Singleton
Center for Policy Research
I examine whether individuals respond to monetary incentives to detect latent medical conditions. The effect is identified by an amendment to Title 38 that deemed diabetes associated with Agent Orange exposure a compensable disability under the VA’s Disability Compensation program. Since a diagnosis is a requisite for benefit eligibility, and nearly one-third of diabetics remain undiagnosed, the advent of disability insurance may have encouraged the detection of diabetes among the previously undiagnosed population. Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey suggests that the policy increased the prevalence of diabetes by 2.7 percentage points among veterans.
Labor Supply With Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates And Their Tax Policy Implications, Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner
Labor Supply With Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates And Their Tax Policy Implications, Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner
Center for Policy Research
Our research fleshes out econometric details of examining possible social interactions in labor supply. We look for a response of a person's hours worked to hours worked in the labor market reference group, which includes those with similar age, family structure, and location. We identify endogenous spillovers by instrumenting average hours worked in the reference group with hours worked in neighboring reference groups. Estimates of the canonical labor supply model indicate positive economically important spillovers for adult men. The estimated total wage elasticity of labor supply is 0.22, where 0.08 is the exogenous wage change effect and 0.14 is the …
County Characteristics And Poverty Spell Length, Andrew Grodner, John A. Bishop, Thomas J. Kniesner
County Characteristics And Poverty Spell Length, Andrew Grodner, John A. Bishop, Thomas J. Kniesner
Center for Policy Research
*In this paper we ask, how do individual and community factors influence the average length of poverty spells? We measure local economic conditions by the county unemployment rate and neighborhood spillover effects by the racial makeup and poverty rate of the county. We find that moving an individual from one standard deviation below the mean poverty rate to one standard deviation above the mean poverty rate (from the inner city to the suburbs) lowers the average poverty spell by 20 to 25 percent. This effect is equal in magnitude to the effect of changing the household head from female to …
Unintended Consequences Of Property Tax Relief: New York's Star Program, Tae Ho Eom, William Duncombe, John Yinger
Unintended Consequences Of Property Tax Relief: New York's Star Program, Tae Ho Eom, William Duncombe, John Yinger
Center for Policy Research
New York’s School Tax Relief Program, STAR, provides state-funded property tax relief for homeowners. Like a matching grant, STAR changes the price of public services, thereby altering the incentives of voters and school officials and leading to unintended consequences. Using data for New York State school districts before and after STAR was implemented, we find that STAR resulted in small increases in student performance along with significant decreases in the efficiency with which this performance is delivered and significant increases in school spending and property tax rates. These tax-rate increases magnify existing inequities in New York State’s education finance system.
Demographics Of The Gay And Lesbian Population In The United States: Evidence From Available Systematic Date Sources, Dan Black, Gary Gates, Seth Sanders, Lowell Taylor
Demographics Of The Gay And Lesbian Population In The United States: Evidence From Available Systematic Date Sources, Dan Black, Gary Gates, Seth Sanders, Lowell Taylor
Center for Policy Research
There are thousands of studies on the gay and lesbian population. Because of the difficulty of sampling this population, most studies have used “convenience samples” for analysis. Until recently, it was extremely rare that survey data on gays and lesbians were collected from a known sampling frame, and equally rare that the same survey instrument was fielded to the gay and lesbian population and to a comparison group of other men and women. Comparative analysis of the gay and lesbian population has thus been difficult, and researchers have been properly reluctant to draw general inferences from available samples of gays …