After years of rapid expansion, growth in state rainy day funds slowed in fiscal year 2024. Although the median rainy day ...

State tax revenue volatility has increased in recent years, with significant fluctuations not only in total collections but ...

The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation has named six scientists from China, Curaçao, Indonesia, the Philippines, and ...

To help meet the ever-rising demand for energy in the U.S., policymakers, regulators, and utilities should look to distributed energy resources (DERs) as a bigger part of the solution. According to ...

Co-living spaces such as rooming houses and residential hotels—known broadly as single-room occupancies, or SROs—used to be common in the United States, providing low-cost homes for millions of people ...

It’s a truism that demography is destiny—and that includes the financial destiny of states. Although the population of the 50 ...

Health care providers have been using medical devices enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) for decades. Some uses are improving health outcomes, but others may be putting patients at risk. Just as ...

Protecting ocean health while supporting sustainable fisheries is hard work, and it takes time. But those dual goals are also urgent. So 10 years after the formation of the North Pacific Fisheries ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released an interim Public Assistance Cost-Share Incentive Policy for public comment late last year. The policy aims to implement a provision in the ...

To effectively identify and reduce the spread of communicable diseases and other health threats, public health departments need timely standardized data from doctors, hospitals, and other health care ...