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States Prioritize Reserves as Fiscal Flexibility Declines
The strength of rainy day funds in half of the states and nationwide increased during fiscal year 2024—according to states’ own estimates collected by the National Association of State Budget Officers ...
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Pew Welcomes Its First Civic Science Fellow to Work With Funders Collaborative
The Pew Charitable Trusts has partnered with the Civic Science Fellows program to host its first fellow as part of the 2024-25 cohort. Lisa Maillard, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental policy and ...
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Early Planning Can Curb Costs, Climate Stress on Neglected Infrastructure
The growing impacts of climate change—from near-term events such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, to longer-term risks, including higher temperatures, droughts, and sea-level rise—have wreaked ...
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Four Things to Know About Tax Incentive Evaluations
Every state offers companies tax incentives, a mechanism by which states agree to forgo tax revenue in the hope that the companies’ activities will catalyze new economic activity. These incentives ...
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Suicide Risk Increasing and Many High-Risk People Don’t Receive Mental Health Care
A new study shows that from 2015 to 2019, the United States saw increases in the overall rate of suicide attempts and the rate of people experiencing suicidal thoughts, with sharper increases among ...
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Suicide Care Initiative Helps Health Systems Boost Prevention Efforts
About half of people who die by suicide in the United States each year had a health care visit in the month preceding their deaths, which means there are opportunities for hospitals and health systems ...
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Manufactured Homes Are a Crucial Source of Lower-Cost Housing, but Financing Is a Major Hurdle
With few new starter or lower-cost homes being built in the U.S., communities throughout the nation could leverage manufactured homes (modern mobile homes) to help increase the housing supply. However ...
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Opportunities Arise for Nations to Improve Ocean Health
The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet, regulating climate, feeding billions of people and animals and teeming with biodiversity. Yet it faces unprecedented threats from overfishing, pollution, ...
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The Time Has Come to Help America’s Forgotten Homebuyers
Earlier this year, ProPublica reported the story of aspiring homeowners like Abdinoor Igal and other members of Minnesota’s Somali American community who risked their financial well-being to pursue ...
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States Reckon With Lapse of the Broadband Affordable Connectivity Program
Funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) lapsed in May 2024, ending a monthly subsidy that 23 million households nationwide had been using to afford high-speed internet connections. The ...
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State, Federal Officials Work to Measure Progress in Fight to Limit Climate Impacts
States and federal agencies are dedicating more staff, time, and resources than ever to help prepare communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems for a more extreme climate. With this encouraging ...
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Pew Comments on Proposed Payment Policies in Medicare, Medicaid
The Pew Charitable Trusts sent comments on Sept. 9 to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the agency’s proposed payment policies in the 2025 physician fee schedule. Among the ...