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How U.S. Communities Can Help Deliver the Clean Energy Future
Over the next few months, citizens in more than 60 nations will choose leaders who will shape the future of those countries—and our planet. A key issue in many of these elections is how communities ...
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As Threats to Biodiversity Soar, Governments Must Boost Conservation Funding
A fundamental truth about large-scale conservation – which is essential for enhancing biodiversity, ecosystem health, climate stability and ultimately human well-being – is that it requires ...
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What the Federal Reserve’s Policy Shift Means for State and Local Budgets
The Federal Reserve intended for today’s interest rate cut of 0.5 percentage points to stimulate the broader economy, but this shift in monetary policy also represents a subtle but important change in ...
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States Prioritize Reserves as Fiscal Flexibility Declines
The strength of rainy day funds in half of the states and nationwide increased during fiscal year 2024—according to states’ own estimates collected by the National Association of State Budget Officers ...
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Pew Comments on Proposed Payment Policies in Medicare, Medicaid
The Pew Charitable Trusts sent comments on Sept. 9 to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the agency’s proposed payment policies in the 2025 physician fee schedule. Among the ...
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States Reckon With Lapse of the Broadband Affordable Connectivity Program
Funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) lapsed in May 2024, ending a monthly subsidy that 23 million households nationwide had been using to afford high-speed internet connections. The ...
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Manufactured Homes Are a Crucial Source of Lower-Cost Housing, but Financing Is a Major Hurdle
With few new starter or lower-cost homes being built in the U.S., communities throughout the nation could leverage manufactured homes (modern mobile homes) to help increase the housing supply. However ...
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Researchers Explore State Expenditure Forecasting Challenges
Long-term revenue and spending projections can help states determine whether their budgets are on a sustainable path—or whether, instead, they can expect to face structural budget gaps. But although ...
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Immigrants’ Economic and Fiscal Role in Philadelphia
Immigrants play an outsize role in Philadelphia’s economy. They fill jobs, create businesses, own homes, and fuel entire industries at rates beyond their growing share of the city’s population (15.7% ...
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States Should Better Leverage Medicaid to Fund Substance Use Services in Schools
Earlier this year, the Chicago-based national nonprofit Healthy Schools Campaign published a report on how Medicaid—the public health insurance program for low-income people in the United States—can ...
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International Day of Democracy
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How Public Funds Are Spent on Philadelphia’s Neighborhoods
Philadelphia’s communities are often characterized by their open spaces, such as parks, playgrounds, and plazas. In every neighborhood, these are places where residents gather, relax with family and ...