Pew Charitable Trusts6 年
Policy Proposal: Revising Medicare’s Protected Classes Policy
What problem is this policy meant to address? Medicare Part D plans (PDPs) are required to cover at least two drugs in each therapeutic class, defined as a group of drugs used to treat the same ...
Pew Charitable Trusts5 天
Collective Effort Begins to Map Seagrasses in the Western Indian Ocean
A proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This is borne out in science, where a ...
Pew Charitable Trusts11 年
State Payday Loan Regulation and Usage Rates
Pew's Safe Small-Dollar Loans Research Project classified states into three categories—Permissive, Hybrid, and Restrictive—based on their payday loan regulations. Nationally, the average usage rate ...
Pew Charitable Trusts9 年
Growth in Federal Prison System Exceeds States'
States, like the federal government, recorded sharp increases in incarceration and corrections costs over the past three decades. However, between 2007 and 2013, many states made research-driven ...
Pew Charitable Trusts6 年
35 States Reform Criminal Justice Policies Through Justice Reinvestment
Since 2007, 35 states have reformed their sentencing and corrections policies through the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, a public-private partnership that includes the U.S. Justice Department’s ...
Pew Charitable Trusts8 年
Shark Sanctuaries Around the World
Blacktip Reef Shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus). Also known as Blacktip Shark and Guliman. Found in tropical waters throughout the Indo-West and Central Pacific. Photo taken at Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...
Pew Charitable Trusts9 年
Results First Clearinghouse Database
The Results First Clearinghouse Database is an online resource that brings together information on the effectiveness of social policy programs from nine national clearinghouses. It applies ...
Pew Charitable Trusts5 年
To Safely Cut Incarceration, States Rethink Responses to Supervision Violations
Recent research from The Pew Charitable Trusts found that about 4.5 million people in the United States are on community supervision as of 2016. Probation and parole provide a measure of ...
Pew Charitable Trusts4 年
How States Raise Their Tax Dollars, FY 2019
Note: this data has been updated. Taxes make up about half of state government revenue, with two-thirds of states’ total tax dollars coming from levies on personal income (37.9%) and general sales of ...
Pew Charitable Trusts9 年
Promoting Community Water Fluoridation
Pew’s initiative for children’s dental policy promotes community water fluoridation as one of the most effective and least expensive strategies for improving oral health. Lauded by the Centers for ...
Pew Charitable Trusts8 年
How to Improve Electronic Health Record Usability and Patient Safety
Although the United States has invested tens of billions of dollars to encourage providers to adopt electronic health records (EHRs), many clinicians have found that these systems have poor “usability ...
Pew Charitable Trusts7 年
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) spans 4.5 million square kilometers (1.7 million square miles) between Hawaii and Mexico, an abyssal plain as wide as the continental United States and punctuated by ...