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, ...

Each year, The Pew Charitable Trusts releases the “State of the City” report, which offers a data-rich snapshot of Pew’s hometown, Philadelphia. In this episode, Katie Martin, who leads Pew’s ...

Methadone is a proven medication for treating opioid addiction, a disorder that has contributed to about 100,000 U.S. deaths a year since 2021. Yet stigma around methadone and addiction has long ...

High rates of opioid prescribing have contributed to the current U.S. opioid epidemic and the steady increase in overdose deaths across the country. Prescribers wrote an all-time high of 255 million ...

More than 3.5 million, or 1 in 72, adults were on probation in the United States at the end of 2018—the most recent year for which U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) data is available—more than ...

Online platform (“gig”) workers have received widespread attention from researchers, policymakers, and the media in recent years. But the independent workforce has long included self-employed workers, ...

More than 20 million people in the United States have a substance use disorder (SUD), yet only about 10% of them receive treatment. 1 And although there are about 750,000 licensed counselors ...

A checking account is the most basic and necessary financial product for American consumers. Nine out of 10 Americans have a checking account, making it the most widely utilized financial services ...

Through its Philadelphia’s Fiscal Future series, The Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with the William Penn Foundation, is exploring the various possibilities that lie ahead for the city’s ...

EHR Certification Program The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, passed in 2009, established the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program—known as ...

State governments can undermine opportunities for investment and job creation when businesses spend too much time or money on inefficient regulatory processes, or when new business projects get ...

Overfishing is one of the greatest threats facing the ocean. In its 2020 biennial report on the status of the world’s fisheries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) noted that a ...