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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

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 […]

New Report Offers Another Compelling Reason for States to Expand Medicaid

There are plenty of reasons for states to expand Medicaid. It can increase access to health care, improve health outcomes and financial security, encourage employment and education gains, and the list goes on. A report released by the Urban Institute in June offers yet another reason: it is associated with decreased medical debt. The report […]

South Dakota’s Journey to Medicaid Expansion: An Update 

South Dakota is still on track to close its Medicaid coverage gap. Voters in the state are set to decide whether to expand Medicaid through ballot initiative this November. Legislators opposed to expansion, recognizing the success of ballot initiatives to expand Medicaid in other states, made an attempt to prevent expansion – but this ended […]