Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series examining the changing nature of the nonprofit sector in Philadelphia. Nonprofit organizations play a critical role in Philadelphia and represent a ...

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program is a $42.5 billion federal effort to expand affordable, high-speed internet access throughout the United States by funding the planning and ...

The U.S. Department of Education recently announced that it will resume involuntary collections this month on debt owed by student loan borrowers who are in default, beginning with tax refund and ...

When she was getting ready for her first day as a mental health therapist at an elementary school near Washington, D.C., Stacey Baxter—now a senior associate with The Pew Charitable Trusts’ suicide ...

Scientists forecast that the amount of plastic entering the ocean—approximately 11 million metric tons each year—could triple by 2040. To help find solutions, The Pew Charitable Trusts and Gerstner ...

A new website, created by the South Carolina Center of Excellence in Addiction (COE), makes it easier for state and local leaders, health care providers, researchers, and citizens to understand how ...

To meet rising electricity demand—which is surging throughout the U.S. because of factors such as population growth, more data centers, and expanding manufacturing—states need near-term solutions. One ...

The unprecedented revenue wave that states experienced from mid-2020 to the end of 2022—attributed to multiple factors, including the influx of federal funds to confront the COVID-19 pandemic—enabled ...

Since 2020, the U.S. has experienced an average of 23 disasters a year that caused at least $1 billion of destruction each, and policymakers at every level of government are grappling with those ...

About the metrics Fiscal sustainability: Do funding policies yield predictable and affordable costs? Net amortization—the amount of money needed to pay for new benefits earned by current employees in ...