After years of rapid expansion, growth in state rainy day funds slowed in fiscal year 2024. Although the median rainy day ...

It’s a truism that demography is destiny—and that includes the financial destiny of states. Although the population of the 50 ...

State tax revenue volatility has increased in recent years, with significant fluctuations not only in total collections but ...

The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation has named six scientists from China, Curaçao, Indonesia, the Philippines, and ...

Editor's note: This report examines potential strategies that can be implemented on farms and feedlots to reduce the risk of human illnesses caused by pathogens in meat and poultry. A separate report ...

Health care organizations are using artificial intelligence (AI)—which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration defines as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”—for a growing range ...

In November 2013, French Polynesia’s government committed to protecting at least 20 percent of the French territory’s waters by 2020. More than 50 local organizations voiced support for this goal at a ...

Microgrids are small groupings of interconnected power generation and control technologies that can operate within or independent of a central grid, mitigating disturbances and increasing system ...

Editor's Note: The content on this page was published before June 2023, when the United Nations adopted a legally binding treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas ...

The industrial sector uses more energy than any other sector and accounts for one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions generated in the United States each year. Pew is working to increase the amount ...

Cattle grazier Ann Ballinger surveys Stockholm Station, her vast property in the Outback of western Queensland. Her story is one of a dozen exploring successful Outback land management that sustains ...

In July 2015, this report was updated to include revised data for Table B.2. The Children’s Health Insurance Program, a joint state-federal partnership, covered 8.1 million children at a cost of more ...