At a time when the U.S. housing shortage has caused home prices to soar, removing the barriers that prevent more manufactured ...

Stat: 41%: The share of U.S. adults who have some form of health care debt. Story: Millions of Americans are struggling with debt, from credit card bills to unexpected medical expenses. And many face ...

Stat: 4 million to 7 million: The United States has a shortage of 4 million to 7 million homes. Story: For many Indigenous communities, the concept of land or home ownership can stand in opposition to ...

State policymakers are developing and employing a range of strategies to take full advantage of flexible federal pandemic funding ahead of upcoming deadlines. Lawmakers in Vermont and Mississippi, for ...

More than four years after the pandemic began dramatically changing downtown economies, recent information shows that cities are finally recovering from the effects of the widespread shift to remote ...

As extreme weather events become more intense and more common, states already face an estimated backlog of nearly $1 trillion for deferred maintenance and needed upgrades to public infrastructure. To ...

A global community eager for positive news on the environment gained a bit of hope last week when the Group of 20 reiterated commitments to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement and the ...

The tuna fisheries of the western and central Pacific Ocean represent more than half the global tuna catch and are among the most valuable in the world, worth US$21 billion each year. But with such ...

Public lands contain iconic landscapes that often become synonymous with a particular state, drawing locals and nonresidents alike to visit. In New Mexico, known as the “Land of Enchantment,” Otero ...

At their high-stakes annual negotiations on how to address climate change, world leaders made some progress but failed to agree on changes at a scale and pace needed to limit global temperature rise ...

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts today praised the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s passage of the Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems (RISEE) Act. The bipartisan ...