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 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 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 international waters of the South Pacific Ocean are home to numerous commercially valuable fisheries, and now the organization that oversees those fisheries has a chance to ensure they thrive far ...

The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) spans 4.5 million square kilometers (1.7 million square miles) between Hawaii and Mexico, an abyssal plain as wide as the continental United States and punctuated by ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early 1990s, with violent crime at record levels and public alarm growing, federal and state lawmakers responded with new policies that sent more offenders to prison for longer periods. The ...

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 ...

This brief is one of 13 that examine state and local policies that have resulted in actions to mitigate flooding. Revolving loan programs provide low- or no-interest loans to state or local entities ...