About one-third of Americans who qualify for public assistance haven't signed up. That amounts to millions of people needlessly going without food stamps, low-income housing or health insurance.
This predicament is what RealBenefits, a Boston-based software start-up, was created to solve. The five-person firm's Web database circumvents complicated government paperwork with easy-to-use screening and enrollment tools. So far RealBenefits has connected nearly 100,000 families to more than $371 million in government aid since 2000.
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Mark Rukavina, director of our Community Benefit & Economic Stability Project, quoted in NPR.
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Colin Reusch, senior adviser on oral health policy for Community Catalyst, quoted in Seacoastline.
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Community Catalyst is proud to join our state partners in asking the Biden administration and Congress to consider innovative state models for building on the ACA. Read the letter in POLITICO Pulse.
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