For the past two years, state and local governments have been a major force in the job market, hiring new employees at a pace not seen in decades and helping drive the nation’s overall employment ...

More than half a century after its creation, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)—which provides federally backed coverage for homeowners and small businesses in 23,000 communities—is failing ...

Pew's Safe Small-Dollar Loans Research Project classified states into three categories—Permissive, Hybrid, and Restrictive—based on their payday loan regulations. Nationally, the average usage rate ...

Effectively administering health care programs is a critical element of sound fiscal management for state and local governments. As health care and corrections have emerged in recent years as fiscal ...

Most public pension plans without Social Security coverage—which account for about 27% of state and local workers, including 40% of teachers—fail to meet The Pew Charitable Trusts’ guidelines for ...

Drug compounding—the creation of medicines for patients whose clinical needs cannot be met by commercially available, FDA-approved products—has always been a part of pharmacy practice. But dramatic ...

State population growth has steadily accelerated from the record lows of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 42 states’ populations rising faster in 2024 than they did over the preceding 15 years (2009 to ...

Federal dollars are the second-largest source of funding for state governments, historically ranging from about a quarter to a third of total state revenue. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid—which ...

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

Bank overdraft fees are back in the news. Designed in the late 1960s to help customers avoid bounced checks, overdraft—when banks allow payments (for a fee) even though customers don’t have enough in ...

This article is the third in a three-part series looking at issues surrounding debt lawsuits in state courts. Medical debt reforms recently enacted in statehouses across the country represent ...

The research found that although screening and treatment practices for SUD and suicidality differ, adults with disabilities experience many of the same obstacles to accessing services for both SUD and ...