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Data Collection Is Critical for Efficient Broadband Policy Implementation
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 allocated an unprecedented $65 billion for programs—including the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program and the Digital ...
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Pew Applauds Utah Bill to Promote the Adoption of Advanced Transmission Technologies
WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts today commended the unanimous passage of H.B. 212 by each chamber of the Utah State Legislature. The bill, sponsored by Representative Christine Watkins (R) and ...
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State Investment Earnings Boomed. Will Policymakers Be Ready When They Bust?
States earn revenue by investing surplus funds—and money held in reserves and special accounts—but these earnings typically have been a tiny source of state revenue. However, in recent years, after ...
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Pew’s Economic Development Incentive Evaluation Toolkit Designed to Help States
A toolkit assembled by The Pew Charitable Trusts in 2024 can help state policymakers, policy analysts, and the public better understand the economic development incentives offered by their states and ...
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Why States Should Evaluate Workforce Development and Job Training Incentives
As more states adopt workforce development incentives to address businesses’ need for skilled workers, policymakers will need to routinely review and measure their effectiveness, according to speakers ...
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How States Can Ensure Addiction Treatment Access During Natural Disasters
A state of emergency—including those caused by natural disasters such as the recent wildfires around Los Angeles—can have serious implications for access to treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs ...
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How Income Volatility Interacts With American Families’ Financial Security
The balance sheets of American households are showing modest improvement, as are people’s attitudes about their financial health. The Census Bureau found that the median household income increased by ...
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Natural Disaster Mitigation Spending Not Comprehensively Tracked
In the aftermath of 2017’s historic hurricanes and wildfires, Congress provided one-time funding of nearly $140 billion. 1 With the increasing severity and frequency of natural disasters, policymakers ...
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Extended Family Support and Household Balance Sheets
Over the course of a lifetime, the family provides a foundation for financial security. Children’s economic well-being is closely tied to their immediate families’ financial success, and as kids grow ...
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Regulation of Over-the-Counter Drug Products Should Be Streamlined
Americans routinely reach for over-the-counter (OTC) drugs to treat a wide variety of ailments. And they have a growing number of choices at their local drugstore: The OTC market now includes more ...
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Policy Proposal: Revising Medicare’s Protected Classes Policy
What problem is this policy meant to address? Medicare Part D plans (PDPs) are required to cover at least two drugs in each therapeutic class, defined as a group of drugs used to treat the same ...
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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 ...