Earlier this month, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio released a newsletter that focused on the percentage of outpatient ...

If your organization works on issues, you probably have people who can explain why they matter. You have communications ...

As a policy analyst, I encounter a range of different types of policy studies. Different research questions demand different tools. For example, measuring the economic footprint of a cycling industry ...

Public policy analysis is a professional service conducted by policy analysts at the federal, state, and local level. If ...

Last week, I went to a webinar hosted by the National Coalition for Literacy and the Learning Impact Network about adult ...

From this table, you can get an idea of which states rely the most on federal funding. For instance, let’s consider Alaska. Between national parks, conservation land, and military bases, 60% of Alaska ...

The top of the list is not a state at all, but the District of Columbia, where about one in five workers are employed by the federal government. This makes sense because DC is the nation’s capital and ...

We live in a post-welfare reform world. In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich worked together to reform welfare in the United States. A large part of the bargain struck ...

When an analyst approaches a problem and are trying to take an efficiency lens to it, she has two main options at her fingertips: cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. Understanding ...

Unsurprisingly, the states that would need the most money to end poverty are the states with the largest populations. There is a huge dropoff between Florida and Ohio both in terms of the amount of ...

Over the last two years, the biggest economic story has been very high levels of inflation in the United States and abroad. It may not have been as bad as inflation in the 1980’s, and it certainly was ...

On Wednesday, I went to a luncheon hosted by the Columbus Metropolitan Club on the topic of homelessness. The host posed a question to one of the panelists: what would it cost to end homelessness in ...