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Policymakers should encourage the development of energy efficiency programs. These programs should be affordable and cost-effective.

Policymakers should continue to use traditional rate cases to set utility rates. Rates should be based on just and reasonable expenses, as is done in rate cases. 

Regulators should assign system costs appropriately to customer classes. This should be consistent with universal service and affordability goals.

Regulators should ensure that residential rate design minimizes flat, fixed charges and fees.

Policies and regulations should prioritize placing children in foster care with grandparents and other caregiver relatives whenever possible and appropriate. 

Policymakers should support efforts to improve the quality of foods purchased and consumed by SNAP recipients, such as through nutrition education and healthy food incentives. 

Policymakers should not expand work requirements for SNAP recipients.

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.