Housing First policies are being replaced with punitive reforms that could push 170,000 people back into homelessness.

Austin skyline. The city's “Reimagining Public Safety” project used evidence-based policymaking to inform the city's budget decisions and to shape public safety policies starting in 2020.

Statistical uncertainty in data—or random error in a measurement—particularly when it is used to inform funding and policies, can lead to a variety of issues ...

One of the great—if largely unsung—bipartisan congressional acts of recent history was the passage in 2018 of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. In essence, the “Evidence Act” ...

As 2026 dawns, look for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ramp up his assault on vaccines using policy-based evidence making and altering Vaccine Court standards.

Who doesn’t believe evidence should guide our decisions? Basing care and policy on evidence seems the best approach intuitively but why then is it so difficult to accomplish? A commentary in Public ...

A lot of debate exists around whether the federal government’s main food assistance program for poor Americans – the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program (SNAP) – should restrict certain items ...

Results for America today released the 2023 Invest in What Works State Standard of Excellence highlighting state data use at an event co-hosted with the National Governors Association. Last year, ...

Vice Chancellor, David Umahi Federal University of Health Sciences Uburu (DUFUHS), Prof Jesse Uneke, has called for the adoption of evidence informed Policy making process in the development of ...