Shawntaye Hopkins

This resource presents a concrete list of dos and don’ts that policymakers and justice system leaders can use to guide policy and practice changes focused on young adults in the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems.

This report draws on the experience of five states to present strategies that all states can use to achieve significant reductions in their use of suspensions. The report also offers recommendations for applying a data-driven approach to ensure that school discipline reforms not only reduce suspensions, but also foster supportive learning environments and ultimately improve outcomes for all students.

The stability of the individual health insurance market is on many policymakers’ minds as 2018 open enrollment for individual insurance purchased through the exchanges approaches. Participants in this webinar will have the opportunity to hear specifics regarding the cost of premiums in 2018, insurance issuer exits, and whether the Trump administration will continue to provide insurance companies with subsidies to offset the cost of lowering deductibles and other out of pocket costs for certain low-income consumers. This webinar will examine how the current climate surrounding the Affordable Care Act may affect the existing individual market.

The Trump administration released its first full fiscal budget for 2018, called the “Taxpayer First” Budget, this week. As expected, the budget delivers a gut-punch to several energy and environment programs within the Department of Energy, or DOE, and the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA. Furthermore, the steep cuts proposed in the budget could eventually be magnified in a sort of double whammy to state efforts to protect the environment and transition to cleaner sources of energy.