Policy Briefs · Congressional Resources

Per-district data. Federal-agency open data. Congressional fact-sheet generation.

Wounded Warriors' open-data infrastructure produces per-congressional-district veteran demographics, tract-level service-desert maps, and federal-grade policy briefs free to Members of Congress, congressional staff, and federal agency partners. Pulled live from Census ACS + CDC PLACES + our directory.

For Congressional staff

Per-District Veteran Demographics (live Census ACS proxy)

Audience: Member of Congress / district staff / committee staff

Single endpoint returns veteran demographics for any US congressional district (118th Congress): total population, population 18+, total veterans, veteran share, poverty count + percentage, unemployment, median household income, median gross rent.

Sample query for Texas-12:

curl https://warriors-fund-api.emperormew.workers.dev/api/congressional-district/TX/12

Returns JSON with all demographics. Without a CD parameter, returns all districts in the state ranked by veteran count — useful for cross-district staff comparisons.

Use case: 5-minute fact-sheet creation for any town hall, legislative briefing, or constituent meeting.

Service-Desert Detection by State

Audience: state delegation / governor's veteran-affairs staff

Identifies tracts where many veterans live but few resources serve them — useful for steering federal grant dollars (HUD-VASH, SSVF, BJA Veteran Treatment Court) toward underserved districts.

curl https://warriors-fund-api.emperormew.workers.dev/api/coverage-gaps?state=TX&min_veterans=100

Per-State Comprehensive Dashboard

Audience: governor's veteran-affairs office / state veteran agency

Single endpoint returns the complete picture for any state: ACS demographics roll-up, resource counts by type, top-5 service deserts, top-5 highest-depression tracts, top-5 severe-rent-burden tracts, top-10 resources, crisis-line + CVSO + donor links.

curl https://warriors-fund-api.emperormew.workers.dev/api/state/TX/dashboard

For federal agency staff

Project Open Data v1.1 (DCAT) Catalog

Audience: VA / HUD / DOL / HHS open-data teams

Wounded Warriors publishes a Project Open Data v1.1 catalog at /data.json for federal Data.gov harvesters. Four datasets joining federal sources (Census ACS, CDC PLACES, ACS housing) with our verified veteran-resource directory.

Federal agencies can pull our datasets the same way they pull other agency catalogs — DCAT 1.1-conformant, no auth required, CC-BY 4.0 licensed.

Federal Grant-Eligibility Cross-Reference

Audience: HUD-VASH / SSVF program offices

HUD-VASH and SSVF program offices can use our tract-level rent-burden + veteran-density join to identify high-priority areas for grant deployment. /api/housing-context/high-burden

Policy briefs we maintain (auto-updated)

PACT Act 2024 Expansion Impact

Hypertension was added to Agent Orange presumptive list in 2024. Veterans previously denied can refile via Supplemental Claim. Our infrastructure surfaces 84 presumptive conditions across Agent Orange / PACT burn-pit / Camp Lejeune / Gulf War / radiation eras.

Live data: /api/pact-presumptives

Veteran Suicide Crisis Line (988+1) Coverage

988 + Press 1 is the federal Veterans Crisis Line. Our AI agent integrations always surface this number first when crisis intent is detected, ensuring it's never missed in critical moments. Plus 14-line directory of secondary crisis resources.

Live data: /api/crisis-lines?audience=veteran

Tract-Level Health Equity for Veterans

CDC PLACES BRFSS-modeled prevalences for 78,815 tracts joined with veteran density: depression, mental health, no insurance, disability, smoking, binge drinking, obesity, diabetes. Identifies neighborhoods where veteran population health is most at risk.

Live data: /api/health-context/high-need

HUD-VASH and SSVF Eligibility Mapping

ACS rent-burden data joined with veteran density across 80,147 tracts identifies the highest-priority neighborhoods for HUD-VASH voucher distribution and SSVF rapid-rehousing deployment.

Live data: /api/housing-context/high-burden

How to use Wounded Warriors data in your work

Congressional inquiries

If you're congressional staff and need a custom fact-sheet generated for your member's district, town-hall, or floor speech — we can produce one in 24 hours. Email: policy@warriorsfund.org