The United States has a shortage of 4 million to 7 million homes and, at the same time, an all-time-high office vacancy rate of 20%, meaning that more than a billion square feet of office space is ...

David Hyun, M.D., and Rachel Zetts, MPH, lead The Pew Charitable Trusts’ recently launched state health solutions project, which focuses on using data to improve health outcomes, narrow health ...

A record number of Americans are reaching retirement age this year, marking the start of an unprecedented surge in Americans turning 65 that will last through roughly 2027, and bringing issues related ...

Clean energy industries, from solar and wind to electric vehicles and battery storage, have already added hundreds of thousands of jobs to the U.S. economy and could prove to have a historic impact on ...

Philadelphians examining their residential property reappraisals this fall are noticing the impact of recent changes that have resulted in certain homeowners paying higher effective tax rates than two ...

Extreme weather impacts are felt at the local level first, something 3,143 county governments throughout the United States know all too well. According to the National Association of Counties (NACo), ...

States are leveraging funds from the federal Digital Equity Act (DEA) to ensure every household has access to digital skills resources and affordable devices, which are essential for residents to ...

The percentage of Americans working from home has quadrupled since 2019. One consequence of this change has been a historic decline in demand for office space—20% of offices were vacant in July 2024, ...

In 2019, an estimated 28 million metric tons of plastic pollution entered the environment – the equivalent of more than the weight of the Titanic every day – according to a study by the Nordic Council ...

On average, the health of global fisheries is not improving. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), from 1974 to 2021 the percentage of sustainable fish populations ...

Around the world, biodiversity is in trouble, with up to 1 million animal and plant species teetering on the brink of extinction and habitats disappearing at an alarming rate. This trajectory ...

School meal programs and the individuals who run them have come under intense scrutiny in recent years as they planned for and implemented the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s healthier standards for ...