Effectively administering health care programs is a critical element of sound fiscal management for state and local governments. As health care and corrections have emerged in recent years as fiscal ...

Pew's Safe Small-Dollar Loans Research Project classified states into three categories—Permissive, Hybrid, and Restrictive—based on their payday loan regulations. Nationally, the average usage rate ...

To effectively identify and reduce the spread of communicable diseases and other health threats, public health departments need timely standardized data from doctors, hospitals, and other health care ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released an interim Public Assistance Cost-Share Incentive Policy for public comment late last year. The policy aims to implement a provision in the ...

Protecting ocean health while supporting sustainable fisheries is hard work, and it takes time. But those dual goals are also urgent. So 10 years after the formation of the North Pacific Fisheries ...

Stat: 40%: Up to 40% of the food supply in the United States is wasted each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Story: When you see the perfect displays of produce in grocery stores ...

More than half a century after its creation, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)—which provides federally backed coverage for homeowners and small businesses in 23,000 communities—is failing ...

In a series of three issue briefs to be released over the coming weeks, Pew shows the extent to which households are financially vulnerable when faced with a financial shock. The briefs provide ...

Beyond 200 nautical miles from the seashore lie the international waters of the high seas global commons covering 45 percent of the Earth’s surface. The time is ripe for a new initiative of great ...

Businesses, communities, and wildlife across a vast portion of western Washington, western Oregon, and northwestern California rely on healthy national forests. Since 1994, the Northwest Forest Plan ...

Increasing broadband deployment has been a critical component of the United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a central aspect of the recent wave of funding aimed at modernizing the ...

Housing costs rise when there are not enough homes to meet demand. Pennsylvania, in part because of restrictive zoning regulations, ranked 44th among the 50 states on rate of housing built from 2017 ...