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Veterans' Participation in Public Programs
Veterans who receive VA Disability Compensation participate in public assistance programs at lower rates than nonveterans. Their VA income interacts in complicated ways with the rest of the social safety net. Programs should clarify how VA income affects eligibility for other benefits.
Jul 28, 2026

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Aug 6, 2026

China's Retirement Reform and the 2035 Statutory Working-Age Window: Buying Time amid Demographic Decline and AI-Driven Change

Using a monthly birth-cohort simulation, the author estimates that China’s 2025 retirement reform keeps about 48 million additional people below statutory retirement ages in 2035, delaying the working-age decline without reversing population aging.
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Aug 6, 2026

Interpreting Dual-Use Biology Benchmarks for Frontier AI: Measurement, Saturation, and Generational Analysis

The authors find that many artificial intelligence (AI) benchmark tasks are no longer informative, but a frontier of difficult tasks remains so, with recent gains concentrated on difficult tasks theorized to be relevant to real-world risk.
Commentary

Aug 5, 2026

Public Benefits Are a Hidden Engine of College Completion

It's often short-run financial constraints—not enough money to cover rent or food while also paying for school—that keep young adults out of the classroom. Public benefits relieve enough pressure to make enrollment possible. Once enrolled, benefits also help students stay.
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Aug 5, 2026

A Portfolio Assessment Approach to Inform Resource Allocation Decisions

The authors describe a structured process for evaluating portfolios within the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process, which can help support resource allocation in cross-cutting portfolios.
Podcast

Aug 5, 2026

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Can AI Change How We Deal with Disasters?

How might AI tools help emergency management professionals save lives, protect property, and reduce harm to communities?
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Aug 4, 2026

AI and the Future of Emergency Management: Market Supply and Adoption Pathways

In this report, the authors present the results of a landscape assessment of artificial intelligence–enabled products that are available to support the work of emergency management across the United States.
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Aug 4, 2026

Having Trouble Finding Good Workers? They’re Right Under Your Nose

Myths about people who have criminal convictions can prevent hiring managers from considering this pool of productive, trustworthy workers. RAND research is clear: The vast majority of people who have a criminal conviction do not reoffend.
Video

Aug 4, 2026

Veterans and Psychedelics

RAND researchers and expert panelists discuss new findings on U.S. veterans’ use and views of specific psychedelics, related clinical research, and the future of U.S. psychedelics policies affecting veterans.
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Aug 4, 2026

Secure Inference Data Centers: A Vertically Integrated Strategy for Security Engineering

This report describes the deployment of secure inference data centers (SIDCs)—purpose-built facilities designed to protect artificial intelligence models from advanced nation-state adversaries. SIDCs can be built today with proven technologies.
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Aug 3, 2026

Baby Bumps in the Road: The Impact of Parenthood on Job Performance, Human Capital, and Career Advancement

This paper explores whether and why a maternal child penalty to earnings would emerge even without changes in employment and hours worked.
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Aug 3, 2026

Physician Experiences in Health System-Owned Practices and Independent Practices: Insights From Interviews With Primary Care Physicians

We aimed to examine how practice ownership influences physician experiences with autonomy, care coordination, infrastructure, and patient relationships in health system-owned versus independent primary care practices.
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Aug 3, 2026

Branded Packaging Raises Likelihood of Cigarette Purchasing in an Experimental Retail Setting by Increasing Craving

This study tested whether cigarette craving and perceived health harms mediate the effect of branded packaging on cigarette purchasing in a simulated retail environment.

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