The 2nd largest #TANF recipient Oct. 2019-May 2020 was NSPARC, which received $1.7m under a contract to provide tech support/data analysis to MDHS. “They do a lot of work ... but I haven’t seen a lot of the results,” @MS_DHS Director Anderson told me. mississippitoday.org/2020/07/22/was…
For years, state agencies like DHS have said NSPARC helps them track outcomes so they can improve their programs, improve lives. And have spent *millions* to do it. “I haven’t seen any real feedback,” Anderson said. That tracks with what I found last year: mississippitoday.org/2019/05/14/sta…
Here’s some background on NSPARC, whose founder was tapped by the Italian government to run the nation’s unemployment program and implement a new national employment model based on “Mississippi Works”: mississippitoday.org/2019/03/28/mee…
