When public health agencies lack access to clinical data, illnesses spread undetected, the health system becomes overburdened, and health care costs, illnesses, and deaths rise. The water crisis in ...
Nearly five years after the COVID-19 pandemic first shined a spotlight on the serious challenges that jurisdictions throughout the U.S. face in reporting timely, accurate public health data, there ...
The 28th meeting of Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP28, will take place 30 November to 12 December in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Fiscal 50 is an interactive platform that provides clear, data-driven portraits of state fiscal conditions. Users can view, sort, and analyze data on key trends that shape states’ fiscal health now ...
Pandemic relief aid continued to inflate the percentage of state government revenue made up of federal dollars in fiscal year 2022. The share decreased by less than a percentage point from the prior ...
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The large growth of the United States’ criminal legal system in the late 20th century brought a widening racial gap in incarceration. 1 By the year 2000, Black people made up almost half of the state ...
In June 2022, The Pew Charitable Trusts assessed the status of Philadelphia’s economic recovery two years into the pandemic, identifying five key questions likely to determine the city’s future ...
Rural communities in the United States often do not have sufficient access to broadband service, and many lack the density necessary to entice commercial internet service providers (ISPs).
Internet service providers (ISPs)—typically private businesses, electric and telephone cooperatives, or municipal utilities—own and operate broadband networks, which employ a range of technologies to ...
Since March 2020, businesses across the country have endured rolling economic shocks stemming from public health restrictions, shifting consumer behavior, and labor and supply chain disruptions ...
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