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States should make it as simple as possible for grandparents and other caregiver relatives to enroll children in their care in school or obtain medical treatment for them. 

States should distribute public revenue only to social service agencies that are formally accountable to taxpayers. This should be demonstrated by performance-based measures. 

Congress should mandate the use of the Supplemental Poverty Meas

Food and nutrition programs should have adequate funding to engage in robust outreach efforts. 

Public retirement systems should establish a maximum vesting period of five years for DB plans and one year for employers’ matching contributions to defined contribution or hybrid plans. 

States and localities should move toward full funding of their retirement systems. 

Policymakers should increase food benefits and expand eligibility for food programs. 

All telemarketing businesses and their agents that operate in a state should be required to be registered there.

The Federal Trade Commission should strengthen the Telemarketing Sales Rule.

Consumers should be protected against spam e-mail. Policymakers should prohibit misrepresentation of the sender, subject, or content of an e-mail.