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Jade Little

is a Project Manager at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families.

Jade Little is a Project Manager at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF). Prior to joining CCF, she worked to advance healthy food policies at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator and interned at PolicyLab at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She has also worked in anti-poverty and workforce development policy. Jade has a MPH in Maternal and Child Health from the Milken Institute of Public Health at The George Washington University and a BA in Health & Societies, specializing in Health Care Markets and Financing, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Latest From Jade

Child Medicaid Enrollment Decline Reaches 3 Million: How Many Kids are Moving to CHIP?

Our tracker of net child Medicaid enrollment declines during the unwinding period just reached, and then quickly exceeded, 3 million with the release of October data by Texas – the undisputed national leader in dumping kids off Medicaid. In February 2022, Georgetown CCF researchers projected that as many as 6.7 million children could experience a […]

Almost 2 Million Fewer Children are Enrolled in Medicaid: Are They Moving to CHIP?

We’ve been tracking net child enrollment losses in Medicaid with state administrative data and our tracker is going to hit two million soon. In reality the number is certainly at two million already given that these numbers don’t include three states (Michigan, New York, and Oregon) and that Texas data, a state which has disenrolled […]

Unpacking Unwinding Data: What’s with All the Different Numbers?

As of June 1st, most states have started terminating Medicaid coverage for children, low-income families, and others for non-eligibility, procedural reasons.  We are trying to get our hands on as much data as we can to get a sense of the outcomes of Medicaid renewals and what the unwinding process looks like across states. Transparency […]

Bipartisan Medicaid Expansion Efforts in North Carolina: How Politicians Formerly Opposed to Expansion Are Framing Their New Support

In a reversal of the longtime opposition of many members of their caucus, House and Senate Republicans in North Carolina have joined Democratic colleagues and shown overwhelming support for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina’s 2022 legislative session. Both chambers have passed their own Medicaid expansion bills with nearly unanimous support from both parties, although they […]