The Work of Education Deans Amidst Recent State Policy Changes

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Kenneth Teitelbaum
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Education Deans

scholarly journals OVERCOMING THE FINANCIAL AID BARRIER FOR E-LEARNERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Chaloux
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Financial Challenges

Financial aid systems help make higher education available to all who can benefit. To “adjust” the existing financial aid system to make it more student-friendly and open doors currently closed to many part-time learners and students with the greatest financial challenges, state policy changes and greater private sector initiatives targeted at workforce can use creative strategies, including altering state-based programs, creating new learning tax incentives, coordinating employer-based aid, and distributing aid directly to students.

scholarly journals The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ganong ◽  
Jeffrey B. Liebman
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Percentage Point Increase ◽  
The Past ◽  
Point Increase ◽  
Program Enrollment ◽  
Nutrition Assistance

One-in-seven Americans received benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 2011, an all-time high. We analyze changes in program enrollment over the past two decades, quantifying the contributions of unemployment and state policy changes. Using instrumental variables to address measurement error, we estimate that a 1 percentage point increase in unemployment raises enrollment by 15 percent. Unemployment explains most of the decrease in enrollment in the late 1990s, state policy changes explain more of the increase in enrollment in the early 2000s, and unemployment explains most of the increase in enrollment in the aftermath of the Great Recession. (JEL E24, E32, H53, H75, I12, I18, I58)

State Child Welfare Policies and the Measurement of Child Maltreatment in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 107755952110064
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Day ◽  
Laura Tach ◽  
Brittany Mihalec-Adkins
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
State Policy ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
State Child ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Policies And Practices

State-level child welfare policies and practices affect what can be referred, investigated, and substantiated as child maltreatment, and these institutional factors vary across states and over time. Researchers typically have not accounted for these factors in analyses, confounding institutional features with the underlying construct they seek to study. The present study addresses this limitation by demonstrating how changes in specific state child welfare policies and practices influence reported and substantiated maltreatment in the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS). Using negative binomial models with state and year fixed-effects to analyze data from 2005 to 2018, we found significant influence of state policy and practice changes on state-level rates of reported and substantiated maltreatment over time. If a state implemented three of the most common policy changes—adding mandated reporters, centralized intake, and staff—its maltreatment reports were an estimated 32% higher than they would have been in the absence of these changes. By contrast, most state policy changes decreased the number of reports that were substantiated—by 24% if they implemented both differential response and higher standards of proof. Implications for future research and policy are discussed.

Malaysian political instability barely favours Najib

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Democratic Action

Subject The prospects for Malaysia's political opposition. Significance A new Islamist party may form to challange the largest opposition party, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), following the collapse of the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition. At its conference in June, PAS voted to cut ties with the more liberal Democratic Action Party (DAP). The new party may include 18 former PAS leaders ('G18') who lost to the conservative religious 'ulama' faction in PAS's internal elections, plus progressive Islamist non-governmental organisations. The formation of the new party would probably lead to a reconfigured, although weaker, opposition coalition. Impacts Political instabilities in Selangor resulting from the PR's collapse would be prolonged, and constrain state policy-making. Despite opposition disarray, the ruling coalition cannot make significant inroads into urban, non-Malay constituencies. The PR's collapse will not spur significant federal government policy changes; a snap general election remains unlikely.

Agency Examines Cost of Health Policy Changes

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
MARY ELLEN SCHNEIDER
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Policy Changes
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