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 ...

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% ...

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 ...

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 ...

From corner grocers and restaurateurs to construction contractors and biotech founders, immigrants make up around a third of all Philadelphia entrepreneurs and growing. 1 That’s double immigrants’ ...

Most of Philadelphia’s 158,000 foreign-born workers—representing 1 in 5 working residents in 2022 and growing—work for either low or high wages, with few earning somewhere in the middle. The majority ...

A December 2023 report from California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office found that the state’s projected deficits had increased to $155 billion through fiscal year 2028, exponentially more than ...

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 ...

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% ...

Retirement security depends on individuals saving for the future, but millions of Americans lack access to an employer-provided savings plan that might help them do so. Research shows that workers are ...