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NGA Center for Best Practices teams develop innovative solutions to today’s most pressing public policy challenges. The NGA Center is the only research and development firm that directly serves the nation’s Governors.
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Governors Prioritizing Postsecondary Strategies: Multiple Pathways Highlighted in 2025 State and Territory Addresses
Governors across the country made clear that postsecondary education remains central to their policy agendas in their 2025 State and Territory addresses—including State of the State, Inaugural, and Budget speeches ...
Membership Monthly – April 2025
Updates from the NGA Membership Team for April 2025. For more about the programs below and a list of upcoming events please email NGA at: membership@nga.org. ABOVE: Virginia Governor Glenn ...
Workforce Investments for A Robust Health Ecosystem
To help commemorate National Public Health Week 2025, this publication is part of an NGA series that explores policies, programs and considerations to improve population health. Addressing health needs through ...
Let’s Get Ready
All Americans should have access to education that prepares them for success in life. As the world changes and technology evolves, ensuring all students graduate with the skills and knowledge necessary for success is increasingly critical for our nation’s economic competitiveness.
As Governors, we lead states facing economic opportunities but also challenges, shortages in workforce, skills mismatch, and widening opportunity gaps that limit true economic mobility for Americans. We must take these indicators as a call to action.
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2010 Maternal and Child Health Update: States Make Progress Towards Improving Systems of Care
The 2010 Maternal and Child Health Update presents 2010 data gathered from U.S. states and territories in the annual maternal ...
State Roles in Delivery System Reforms
With the cost of health care rising faster than the gross domestic product (GDP), it is vital for the United ...
How States and Territories Fund Transportation: An Overview of Traditional and Nontraditional Strategies
This report provides states with an overview of traditional funding mechanisms, profiles of new and innovative programs at work in ...
Innovative State Transportation Funding and Financing
This paper extends and updates earlier work by: (1) providing case studies of state and international experience with a full ...
Maternal and Child Health Update 2008
This issue brief highlights recent state trends in health care coverage for women and children through Medicaid and CHIP, gathered ...
Policy Strategies for Advancing Interstate Health Information Exchange: A Report to the State Alliance for e-Health
Variations among states' laws, and differences between states' laws and federal law, are one of the most significant obstacles to ...
Shaping a Healthier Generation: Successful State Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity
The NGA Center convened the Shaping a Healthier Generation Advisory Council in response to the need for innovative and actionable ...
Preparing to Implement HITECH: A State Guide for Electronic Health Information Exchange
The HITECH Act, enacted as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, expands the role of states in ...
State Employee Health Management Initiatives
With a workforce increasingly susceptible to chronic diseases, states are addressing the various conditions that account for more than 75 ...
NGA Center Influenza Resources
Preparing for a Pandemic Influenza: A Primer for Governors and Senior State Officials Sustaining the State Workforce: Strategies for Effective ...
Small Business Initiatives for Health Coverage and Disease Prevention
Small businesses create a majority of new jobs in the country and make significant contributions to the nation’s economic viability ...
Arts & the Economy: Using Arts and Culture to Stimulate State Economic Development
Through the creative industries, states have an opportunity to create jobs, attract investments, generate tax revenues, and stimulate local economies ...
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