Over several weeks in July, when as many as five flash floods devastated the town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, the causes were not as obvious as many people might have thought. Because while rainfall ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Research shows that access to broadband correlates with greater economic opportunity and workforce participation as well as improved health outcomes. But the mere presence of networks is not enough— ...
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 ...
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 ...
Illegal fishing is a global concern that threatens the long-term health of our oceans, worsens the impact of overfishing on critical marine ecosystems, and costs up to an estimated $23.5 billion ...
The average length of time served by federal inmates more than doubled from 1988 to 2012, rising from 17.9 to 37.5 months. 1 Across all six major categories of federal crime—violent, property, drug, ...
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) spans 4.5 million square kilometers (1.7 million square miles) between Hawaii and Mexico, an abyssal plain as wide as the continental United States and punctuated by ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Guidance for Industry #213 1 —a policy designed to ensure the judicious use of antibiotics that are medically important to humans in the production of food ...
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 ...