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WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 26: Participants gather as 60-Hour Medicaid Vigil Ends with Promise: “We Won’t Get Over This Betrayal – We’re Getting Organized” on July 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Caring Across Generations)

$11M in AI grants aim to help states modernize public benefits

The Center for Civic Futures is funding 11 projects focused on reducing workloads, improving data sharing to help states prepare for changes to SNAP and Medicaid under…
“SNAP welcomed here” sign is seen at the entrance to a Big Lots store in Portland, Oregon. (Getty Images)

Modernizing SNAP starts with better data

Modernizing SNAP is not about collecting more data, but about making the data states already have work better together. 
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester poses for a photo after receiving an award from MomsRising members and their children for championing policies that make life affordable for families during an event at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on April 28, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi / Getty Images for MomsRising)

New Senate bill would update state education, workforce data systems for AI era

New bipartisan legislation would employ artificial intelligence to improve the longitudinal data systems built by state governments to improve educational and workforce outcomes.
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