RAND Corporation

📈 Economy

Jun 25, 2026

Understanding How Impact Fees Shape Housing Development Feasibility and Local Fiscal Revenue

High impact fees contribute meaningfully to housing production costs in California. A 25-percent reduction enables hundreds of new projects in high-cost cities; increased property and sales tax revenue offsets forgone fees in four to seven years

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jun 24, 2026

U.S. Veterans and Psychedelics

In this report, the authors present new data on U.S veterans’ use of specific psychedelic substances (such as psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, and ibogaine), their psychedelics policy preferences, and how these compare with nonveterans

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jun 24, 2026

Quality and Patient Safety Review Processes in Military Treatment Facilities and Operational Clinical Services

RAND researchers assessed the quality and patient safety review processes for care delivered in military treatment facilities and via operational clinical services. Findings were used to identify potential opportunities for improvement

United States

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🌍 Geopolitics

Jun 20, 2026

The People’s Liberation Army Navy’s Approach to Maintenance Management

The authors of this report examine how the rapid growth and modernization of China’s navy inform maintenance management and activities. The authors also discuss factors that shape China’s ability to maintain and sustain its forces

China

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🏥 Healthcare

Jun 20, 2026

What Is Collaborative Care?

This perspective argues that when principle-based models are scaled to complex populations and settings beyond those for which they were originally developed, the boundaries of the principles are strained

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jun 19, 2026

Language Access in Healthcare

We conducted a policy-oriented narrative review of peer-reviewed studies, federal regulations and professional guidelines published between 2004 and 2025 on language access, interpreter services, and U.S. Health System reform

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jun 19, 2026

Approaches to Collect Comprehensive Electronic Patient Data Across Multiple Providers and Payers for Research

This study evaluated existing and emerging approaches for collecting comprehensive provider and payer data for research in the U.S., with the goals of informing researchers of possible methods and generating evidence to inform policy initiatives

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jun 19, 2026

State-Level Impacts of Key Medicaid Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

The authors developed state-level estimates of budget impact and enrollment changes through 2034 associated with key provisions of the July 2025 budget reconciliation law that affect Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income individuals

United States

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👥 Society

Jun 18, 2026

Evaluation of Cohort 3 of Project imPACT

This report presents findings about Project imPACT, a reentry program for adults who had been involved in the justice system that focused on holistic programs and approaches to expand access to behavioral health services and reduce recidivism

United States

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🏛️ Politics

Jun 18, 2026

Insights and Tools to Improve the Applicant Experience with the Personnel Vetting and Security Clearance Process

The authors examine how applicants experience the U.S. government’s personnel vetting process, identify practical strategies for improving the vetting process experience, and develop tools to help applicants navigate the vetting process

United States

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📚 Education

Jun 18, 2026

Why Do Middle and High Schoolers Miss School?

Using data from two surveys administered in late 2025 to nationally representative samples of students and parents, the authors investigate why secondary school-age students are missing school and to what extent these reasons differ by age

United States

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🌍 Geopolitics

Jun 17, 2026

Cross-Strait Crossroads

This report presents five commissioned policy briefs and workshop findings from a bipartisan Brookings-RAND project, exploring pathways for managing cross-Strait tensions and adapting U.S.-Taiwan policy to a shifting strategic environment

United States

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