After years of rapid expansion, growth in state rainy day funds slowed in fiscal year 2024. Although the median rainy day ...

It’s a truism that demography is destiny—and that includes the financial destiny of states. Although the population of the 50 ...

State tax revenue volatility has increased in recent years, with significant fluctuations not only in total collections but ...

The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation has named six scientists from China, Curaçao, Indonesia, the Philippines, and ...

Health care providers have been using medical devices enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) for decades. Some uses are improving health outcomes, but others may be putting patients at risk. Just as ...

To help meet the ever-rising demand for energy in the U.S., policymakers, regulators, and utilities should look to distributed energy resources (DERs) as a bigger part of the solution. According to ...

Co-living spaces such as rooming houses and residential hotels—known broadly as single-room occupancies, or SROs—used to be common in the United States, providing low-cost homes for millions of people ...

Stat: $1.6 trillion: The amount that Americans collectively owe in student loan debt. Story: In the United States, getting a college degree is often seen as a pathway to a prosperous future. But since ...

To effectively identify and reduce the spread of communicable diseases and other health threats, public health departments need timely standardized data from doctors, hospitals, and other health care ...

Despite the strong bipartisan action the Arizona Legislature took last year to allow more homebuilding, the state’s housing shortage — and high costs for renters and homebuyers — persists. The ...