Resources

Legislation

• H.R.1319 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 | U.S. House of Representatives

• Title-By-Title Summary of the American Rescue Plan | U.S. Senate

The White House

• American Rescue Plan

• American Rescue Plan Fact Sheet

U.S. Department of the Treasury

• FACT SHEET: The American Rescue Plan Will Deliver Immediate Economic Relief to Families

• Assistance for State, Local, and Tribal Governments

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• U.S. Department of Agriculture: American Rescue Plan

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: ARP Housing Provisions Fact Sheet

• Office of Native American Programs (ONAP) - ARP

• HOME-ARP Grantees

U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)

• U.S. Department of Labor: American Rescue Plan

• Building Better Benefits Solutions for the Future

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• Fact Sheet: The American Rescue Plan: Reduces Health Care Costs, Expands Access to Insurance Coverage and Addresses Health Care Disparities

• American Rescue Plan Act: $673 Billion for State and Local Governments | Multistate

• American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 | National Conference of State Legislatures

• ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Fund Allocations | National Conference of State Legislatures

• Invest in Data Infrastructure for Smart, Equitable Recovery | Beeck Center & SEAP in GovTech

• Place Matters: Funding, Financial Transparency, and Racial Equity with the American Rescue Plan | Results for America & Blue Meridian Partners

• How the New Stimulus Can Strengthen Local Governments | Results for America in Governing

• American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: Summary of Provisions | National League of Cities (NLC)

• Cities Prepare to Spend Historic Sums of Federal Aid | Route Fifty

• National Poll: Americans Split on How ARP Funds Should Be Spent | ELGL

• The American Rescue Plan's secret ingredient? Flexible state and local aid | Brookings Institution

• Will the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan address structural inequality? | Brookings Institution

• How should local leaders use their American Rescue Plan funding? | The Brookings Institution

• Five things to consider as you plan to use your city’s ARP allocation | Association of Washington Cities

• The American Rescue Plan gives states a huge opportunity | StateScoop

• 3 Principles for an Antiracist, Equitable State Response to COVID-19 -- and a Stronger Recovery | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)

• Four takeaways on new guidance for state and local fiscal relief under the American Rescue Plan | The Brookings Institute

• ARPA Local Relief Frequently Asked Questions | National League of Cities (NLC)

• State and Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Funds Resources | National Association of Counties (NACo)

• American Rescue Plan Federal Investment Guide | Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University, US Conference of Mayors, Accelerator for America, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

• COVID-19 Relief Funds Guidance and Resources | National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO)

TTS American Rescue Plan: Projects and Impact | U.S. General Services Administration

American Rescue Plan Could Help Prevent State Public Higher Education Cuts | Center for American Progress

ARP Data and Evidence Dashboard | Results for America

States Bolster Program Evaluation Work With American Rescue Plan Funds | Pew Charitable Trusts

How the $4 Trillion Flood of Covid Relief Is Funding the Future | The New York Times

Will Biden deliver for rural America? The promise of the American Rescue Plan | The Brookings Institution

Digital Services

• Digital Services Playbook | United States Digital Service

• NYC[x] Innovation Fellows: Catalyzing Digital-era Transformation Using a 10-week Sprint | Beeck Center

• SHARING GOVERNMENT SOFTWARE: How Agencies are Cooperatively Building Mission-Critical Software | Beeck Center

• Remote Identity Proofing, Race & Credit History Across America | Beeck Center

• Digital.gov | U.S. General Services Administration

• Login.gov to provide authentication and identity proofing services to a limited number of federally funded state and local government programs | U.S. General Services Administration / 18F

Service Design

• Civic Service Design Tools + Tactics | NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity

Accessibility

• Designing Benefit Enrollment Experiences for Vision Impaired Seniors | Beeck Center

• 18F Accessibility Guide | U.S. General Services Administration / 18F

• How to Test Websites for Accessibility | Digital.gov

• Plain Language | Plainlanguage.gov

• State Software Budgeting Handbook | U.S. General Services Administration / 18F

• Prerequisites for Modular Contracting | U.S. General Services Administration / 18F

• An Agile Software Development Solicitation Guide | U.S. General Services Administration / 18F

• Procuring Differently: How Colorado Used User Research and Active Vendor Management for Active Vendor Management for COVID-19 Technology | Beeck Center

• Procurement 101: How To Spend ARPA Dollars Wisely | National League of Cities (NLC)

• Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds | U.S. Department of the Treasury

• Interim Final Rule (31 CFR 35) - Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds | Federal Register

• SLFRF Compliance and Reporting Guidance | U.S. Department of the Treasury

• Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds FAQs | U.S. Department of the Treasury

• The Office of Federal Procurement Policy | The White House, Office of Management and Budget

• American Rescue Plan Act - A complex and evolving procurement process | The Institute for Public Procurement

• Breaking Through the Noise: Building a Trusted Source of Information for COVID-19 | Beeck Center

• Leveraging Data for Economic Recovery: A Roadmap for States | Beeck Center

• Four Ways State Government Digital Service Teams Can Support the COVID-19 Response | Beeck Center

• 7 Ways to Boost Data Impact in Response to the Pandemic: Advice from the Nation's State Chief Data Officers | Beeck Center

• San Francisco Human Services Agency Prototypes to Connect Newly-sheltered Clients During COVID-19 | Beeck Center

• Data Is the Story: The Crucial Role State CDOs Play in Pandemic Recovery | Beeck Center

• Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit | Raceforward

• Organizational Assessment Tools and Resources | Racial Equity Tools

• Equity Assessment Tool | Raceforward & Zero Cities Project

• Equity Assessment Tool (DRAFT) | City of Austin

• Race Equity Impact Assessment | Center for the Study of Social Policy

• Racial Equity Toolkit - Government Alliance on Race and Equity | Racial Equity Alliance

• Tools + Resources - Government Alliance on Race and Equity | Racial Equity Alliance

• Citywide Equity Framework | City and County of San Francisco

• Equity NYC | New York City

• Oakland Equity Indicators | City of Oakland

• National Equity Atlas - from PolicyLink and USC | National Equity Atlas

• Leaky Tech Pipeline | Kapor Center for Social Impact

• Service Equity Assessment | U.S. Federal Government

• Institutionalizing and Operationalizing Racial Equity in City Hall, Community and Beyond | Living Cities

• Centering Workers—How to Modernize Unemployment Insurance Technology | National Employment Law Project

• Reflecting on A Year of Helping States Get Unemployment Insurance to People in Need | U.S. Digital Response

• Unemployment Insurance Modernization: User Journey | U.S. Digital Response

• 18F will help Wisconsin fix its unemployment system | StateScoop

• A Playbook for Improving Unemployment Insurance Delivery | New America

• Workforce Development and Unemployment Insurance Provisions | National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA)

• The American Rescue Plan Act | U.S. Department of Labor

• Susan Harwood Training Grant Program | Occupational Safety and Health Administration | U.S. Department of Labor

• Essential Protections During the COVID-19 Pandemic | U.S. Department of Labor

• Rescue Act Extends Unemployment Benefit Programs That Help Millions of Unemployed Workers and Their Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

• Technology, Data, and Design-Enabled Approaches for a More Responsive, Effective Social Safety Net | Beeck Center

• LA’MESSAGE Pilot: Text Reminders in Louisiana (Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, WIC) | Code for America

• Opportunities to Streamline Enrollment Across Public Benefit Programs | Alluma

• Maximizing Linkages: A Policymaker’s Guide to Data-Sharing | Alluma

• Human-Centered Benefit Application Redesign | Civilla

• How Might State Responses to the Pandemic Affect the Safety Net? | Urban Institute

• Using Integration to Simplify America's Safety Net System | United Healthcare

• State Opportunities to Strengthen Home and Community-Based Services through the American Rescue Plan – The National Academy for State Health Policy | National Academy for State Health Policy

• A New Framework for Assessing Safety Net Delivery | Code for America

• Integrated Benefits Initiative: New Approach to More Human-Centered Safety Net | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)

• Preparing for human-centered redesign: A readiness guide for state and local public benefits agencies looking to improve applications, renewals, and correspondence | Beeck Center

WIC

• Launching New Digital Tools for WIC Participants: A Guide for WIC Agencies | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)

• Streamlining and Modernizing WIC Enrollment: With Current Rules and Funding, WIC Agencies Can Simplify Certification Practices to Reach More Eligible Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)

• Using Data Matching and Targeted Outreach to Enroll Families with Young Children in WIC | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)

SNAP

• Facilitating Remote Application Assistance for SNAP During COVID-19: Recommendations for States and Application Assisters | Benefits Data Trust

• Best Practices for SNAP Telephonic Signatures | Food Research & Action Center (FRAC)

• Report: Using Text Message Outreach to Reduce SNAP Churn | Beeck Center and Benefits Data Trust

P-EBT

Implementing People-Centered Pandemic EBT: A Toolkit | Code for America

Rental Assistance

• State and Local Rental Assistance | National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)

• Prioritization in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs | National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)

• COVID | National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)

• Emergency Broadband Benefit | Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

• HOME-ARP Program Fact Sheet: Tenant-Based Rental Assistance | Housing and Urban Development

• Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Dashboard | National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)

• Emergency Rental Assistance - Resource Hub | National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)

• Emergency Rental Assistance Program Comparison | National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA)

• Emergency Rental Assistance Resource Hub for Counties | National Association of Counties (NACo)

• American Rescue Plan Housing & Homelessness Programs and Their Purposes | Results for America

• Pandemic Relief: The Emergency Rental Assistance Program | Congressional Research Service

• Readout of White House Meeting on American Rescue Plan Resources Addressing Home Heating Costs | The White House

• Child Care Relief Funding in American Rescue Plan: State-by-State Estimates | The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)

• State Implementation of the Historic COVID Child Care Relief and Stabilization Funds | The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)

• An Anti-Racist Approach to Supporting Child Care Through COVID-19 and Beyond | The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)

• The American Rescue Plan: Policy Change Affecting Head Start Families and Programs | National Head Start Association

• American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act Child Care Stabilization Funds Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) | The Administration for Children and Families | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

• Make Child Care More Stable: Pay by Enrollment | New America

• American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021 Child Care Stabilization Fund Grant | Division of Early Childhood | State of Maryland

• Using Short-Term Investments to Leverage Long-Term Sustainability: Supporting the Early Childhood Workforce with Federal Relief Funds | Buffett Early Childhood Institute

• American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act Resource Guide | Child Care Aware of America

• Optimizing Distribution of American Rescue Plan Funds To Stabilize Child Care | Center for American Progress

• Explore Our Database with Strategies for Using ARPA and Public Funds for ECE Workforce Compensation | Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE)

• Technical Assistance Brief: How Child Care Stabilization Grants Can Improve Nutrition & Physical Activity | Nemours Children’s Health System

• Can Rescue Funds Give America the Broadband It Really Wants? | Governing

• Digital Equity Stimulus Funding | National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA)

• Public Libraries Can Tap into Eligible Funds Worth Billions | Governing

• The White House Releases a Fact Sheet on the American Jobs Plan, Recognizing Broadband As Essential Infrastructure | Next Century Cities

• New Guidance on ARPA Funds for Broadband Projects | National League of Cities (NLC)

• Treasury Expands Broadband Eligibility for ARPA in a Win for Cities | National League of Cities (NLC)

• ARPA Local Recovery Funds: What’s in it for Connectivity and Technology? | National League of Cities (NLC)

• North Carolina, Virginia, and DC: ARPA puts states closer to closing digital divide, but work remains | StateScoop

• How the infrastructure bill's $65 billion in broadband spending will be doled out | Marketwatch

• State Broadband Spending in 2021 | National Conference of State Legislatures (NCLS)

• Massachusetts: Mass. May Use ARPA Money for Lower Transit Fees, Broadband | GovTech

• Wisconsin: Wisconsin Bill Could Direct ARPA Funds to Broadband Grants | GovTech