At a time when the U.S. housing shortage has caused home prices to soar, removing the barriers that prevent more manufactured ...

Stat: 41%: The share of U.S. adults who have some form of health care debt. Story: Millions of Americans are struggling with debt, from credit card bills to unexpected medical expenses. And many face ...

An estimated 60 million people live in the 10 countries that fringe the biodiversity-rich Western Indian Ocean (WIO), where they rely on a healthy marine environment for food security, livelihoods, ...

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts today praised the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s passage of the Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems (RISEE) Act. The bipartisan ...

More than four years after the pandemic began dramatically changing downtown economies, recent information shows that cities are finally recovering from the effects of the widespread shift to remote ...

Robust employment rates among prime-age Americans are a key driver of state finances, and women’s contributions are on the rise. In most of the country, higher shares of women were employed in 2023 ...

The tuna fisheries of the western and central Pacific Ocean represent more than half the global tuna catch and are among the most valuable in the world, worth US$21 billion each year. But with such ...

Robin Delucia had to reenter the workforce after initially retiring at 70 because she couldn’t live on her nest egg. And she’s not alone. Nearly a third of retirees are considering going back to work ...

Note: This article updates with new data a piece published in April 2023. Throughout 2022, businesses in California, Illinois, and Oregon—three of the first states to implement statewide automatic ...

In growing metropolitan areas such as New York City, suburbs often experience market pressure that leads to housing cost increases. As mayor of New Rochelle, New York, from 2006 to 2023, Noam Bramson ...

Maria Cervania is a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the state’s 41st district, and serves on the Health House Standing Committee. An epidemiologist by training, ...

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that Roger-Mark De Souza will join the organization as vice president, environment, effective Nov. 19, 2024. In this role, De Souza will help shape ...