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Policy Project
The Step Two Policy Project is a policy think tank that focuses on issues involving health, behavioral health, and human services in New York. Our goal is to make complicated subjects more understandable to general readers, while providing detailed insights for people who work in the health policy field.
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Work Requirements Under HR 1: Implications for New York
The One Big Beautiful Big Act (HR 1), enacted in July 2025, changed eligibility criteria related to both immigration status and “community engagement” for various federal benefits programs and established the most significant national eligibility-related reporting requirements to date. “Community engagement requirements” are often called “work requirements.” This paper uses these terms interchangeably.

Sally Dreslin & Adrienne Anderson
45 minutes ago




New: Enrollment and State Spending Data Visualizations
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