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 ...

As so many of my fellow nonprofit leaders know, people are essential to the work we do. Those of us who choose careers in the social sector are driven by our passion and commitment to advance positive ...

Among borrowers who owe payments on their federal student loans, 13% were not making any payments during the “on-ramp period”: a year-long period of temporary flexibility to help transition borrowers ...

Immigrants play an outsize role in Philadelphia’s economy. They fill jobs, create businesses, own homes, and fuel entire industries at rates beyond their growing share of the city’s population (15.7% ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, the Chicago-based national nonprofit Healthy Schools Campaign published a report on how Medicaid—the public health insurance program for low-income people in the United States—can ...

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From fiscal year 2021 to 2022, the reported funding gap for state pension plans—the disparity between promised benefits and available assets—jumped by $439 billion to $1.27 trillion. The increase, ...

The share of states’ total revenue coming from federal funds remained elevated in fiscal year 2022, fueled by pandemic aid dollars and infrastructure investments. Total federal grants to states topped ...

At the end of 2023, tax revenue was below long-term trends nationally and in 28 states, the most since the second quarter of 2014 when states were still recovering from the 2007-09 Great Recession.

State and local retirement systems aim to balance multiple goals: providing plans that support government workforce objectives and ensuring that the cost of benefits is stable and sustainable over the ...

Old-growth forests store significant amounts of carbon, contribute economic value, and provide habitat for an array of wildlife. But because of a history of logging in the U.S., today only about 17% ...