The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 allocated an unprecedented $65 billion for programs—including the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program and the Digital ...
States earn revenue by investing surplus funds—and money held in reserves and special accounts—but these earnings typically have been a tiny source of state revenue. However, in recent years, after ...
Research shows that access to broadband correlates with greater economic opportunity and workforce participation as well as improved health outcomes. But the mere presence of networks is not enough— ...
In 2019, The Pew Charitable Trusts worked with Belize and Costa Rica on updating nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement to include protections for coastal wetlands as nature ...
To expand the use of a proven approach to reducing the misuse of stimulants, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced in January that it was raising the ...
The Pew Charitable Trusts’ partnership with Seychelles, which began in 2019, resulted in the country committing in its 2021 nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement to protect ...
The Pew Charitable Trusts works with nations around the world to build global recognition of the critical role of coastal wetlands—mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes—in carbon sequestration, ...
The balance sheets of American households are showing modest improvement, as are people’s attitudes about their financial health. The Census Bureau found that the median household income increased by ...
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 ...
What problem is this policy meant to address? Medicare Part D plans (PDPs) are required to cover at least two drugs in each therapeutic class, defined as a group of drugs used to treat the same ...
Each year, millions of pretrial defendants and convicted offenders are supervised in their communities as they await trial or serve periods of probation or parole. Local and state agencies are ...
When The Pew Charitable Trusts created Pew Research Center in 2004, we were surveying Americans using the established industry method at the time: calling people on their landline phones and hoping ...