Pew Charitable Trusts13 天
State Public Health Data Reporting Policies and Practices Vary Widely
When public health agencies lack access to clinical data, illnesses spread undetected, the health system becomes overburdened, and health care costs, illnesses, and deaths rise. The water crisis in ...
Pew Charitable Trusts5 天
State and Local Governments Use Innovative Financing to Build Disaster Resilience
Rising costs and threats from extreme weather in the U.S. have prompted historic government investments in hazard mitigation and disaster resilience—including more than $50 billion cumulatively from ...
Pew Charitable Trusts12 天
America’s Most Common Drug Problem? Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Alcohol is the leading driver of substance use-related fatalities in America: Each year, frequent or excessive drinking causes approximately 178,000 deaths. 1 Excessive alcohol use is common in the ...
Pew Charitable Trusts6 天
3 Major Obstacles Limit Rural Homeownership
Americans living in rural areas often struggle to get a mortgage, which limits their ability to attain homeownership. One key reason is the limited availability of small mortgages, those under ...
Pew Charitable Trusts8 天
State Health Care Spending on Medicaid
The State Health Care Spending Project, a collaboration between The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, is examining seven major areas of state health care ...
Pew Charitable Trusts9 天
Marine Biologist Says Deep Sea Is a Fragile Lifeline That Must Be Protected
Roughly 90% of the ocean is taken up by the deep sea—any ocean area below 200 meters (656 feet) in depth—making it one of the largest ecosystems on the planet. These cold, dark waters contain ...
Pew Charitable Trusts13 天
States Must Modernize Public Health Data Reporting—New Report Finds Promising Practices
Infectious diseases can move fast, spreading from person to person within days or sometimes mere hours. To effectively identify and reduce the spread of communicable diseases and other health threats, ...
Pew Charitable Trusts6 天
Experts and Advocates Release Key Principles for Improving Wildfire Funding and Budgeting
The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Alliance for Wildfire Resilience, BuildStrong America, the Federation of American Scientists, Megafire Action, and Taxpayers for Common Sense have established a set of ...
Pew Charitable Trusts6 天
In the Nation’s Capital, a Neighborhood Leans on Nature-Based Solutions to Manage Stormwater
It started more than 10 years ago with a phone call: A homeowner in Washington, D.C.’s Hillcrest neighborhood, concerned about what she thought was a sinkhole in the parkland behind her house, called ...
Pew Charitable Trusts5 天
EU Council Takes Vital Step on Plastic Pellet Pollution
The effort to secure the world’s first regional policy to curb a major source of microplastic pollution in Europe took a welcome step forward this week when the Council of the EU finalized its ...
Pew Charitable Trusts9 天
Revillagigedo Archipelago National Park
Mexico’s Revillagigedo Archipelago National Park, located 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of the Baja California peninsula in the Pacific Ocean, is now North America’s largest fully protected marine ...
Pew Charitable Trusts8 天
Lessons From Economic Development Incentive Evaluations for Supporting Small Businesses
Tax incentives are one of the primary ways states seek to spur business expansion, increase job numbers, and otherwise strengthen their economies. Often, these incentives target small businesses, in ...