Like most major American cities, Chicago and Washington, D.C., are struggling with a trio of real estate challenges: a housing shortage that has driven up rents, record rates of homelessness (in large ...

The global ocean, which feeds billions of people, supports coastal communities, and regulates the climate, is in alarming decline. Every minute, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic is dumped into our ...

Story: Throughout the United States, herds of animals such as elk, deer, and pronghorn travel hundreds of miles along the same migratory routes their ancestors have used for generations. But today, ...

Congressional budget plans could set the stage for hundreds of billions of dollars in federal cuts to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the joint state-federal programs that ...

The Pew Charitable Trusts is committed to helping Philadelphians achieve economic security, advancement, and overall well-being. Public benefits are important but often underutilized resources that ...

To help states address the economic and public health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government provided the largest influx of emergency relief funds in the nation's history, a ...

I grew up in a Philadelphia where each generation had greater opportunity than the one before—and where working-class people could have fulfilling lives. One of my grandfathers was a longshoreman, the ...

In December 2022, 196 member governments of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity agreed to an ambitious plan to safeguard the natural world: the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity ...

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 ...

Indiana’s energy landscape has transformed over the past decade, and the state is seeing significant growth in demand, largely driven by data centers, electrification, and increased domestic ...

In a major milestone in the global fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, today China – which has the world’s largest fishing fleets – joined a landmark treaty to ensure that ...

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