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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Businesses, communities, and wildlife across a vast portion of western Washington, western Oregon, and northwestern California rely on healthy national forests. Since 1994, the Northwest Forest Plan ...

Policymakers at all levels of government have many difficult choices to make as rising health care, education, and infrastructure costs place pressures on annual budgets and outpace revenue growth.