| Project | Description |
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| American Cities Project | Helping policy makers understand and compare key challenges and promising approaches in 30 of our nation's biggest cities |
| Children's Dental Campaign | Promoting cost-effective policies to expand access to dental care and ensure millions more children receive the basic care they need to grow, learn, and lead healthy lives |
| Economic Development Tax Incentives Project | Pew’s tax incentives project helps state leaders adopt policies that make their economic development strategies more effective, accountable and fiscally sound. |
| Economic Mobility Project | Examining how and why people move up or down the income ladder within a lifetime, or from one generation to the next, to gauge the health of the American Dream |
| Election Initiatives | Supporting innovative research and partnerships to achieve the highest standards of accuracy, cost-effectiveness, convenience, and security in America's system of election administration |
| Fiscal Federalism Initiative | Providing federal and state policy makers with solid data and analysis in order to truly understand how their tax and spending policies affect other levels of government.
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| Home Visiting Campaign | Researching and promoting cost-effective investments in high-quality, voluntary home-based programs for new and expectant families. |
| Prepaid Cards Research Project | Pew’s Prepaid Cards Research Project builds awareness about the general purpose reloadable (GPR) prepaid cards marketplace including how and why consumers use them. |
| Public Safety Performance Project | Working with states to advance research-based sentencing and corrections policies that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable, and control costs. |
| Public Sector Retirement Systems | The Public Sector Retirement Systems Project provides cutting-edge research on the fiscal challenges state and cities face as a result of their pension and retiree health promises. |
| Results First | Helping states assess the costs and benefits of policy options and use that data to make decisions based on results |
| Safe Checking in the Electronic Age | Raising awareness, building partnerships with industry, and advocating for policies that reduce risks and allow Americans to responsibly manage their checking accounts. |
| Safe Small-Dollar Loans Research Project | Conducting research on small-dollar, short-term credit products such as payday and automobile title loans, as well as on emerging alternatives, in order to promote safe and transparent solutions to meet consumers’ immediate financial needs. |
| States' Fiscal Health | Providing data, analysis, and guidance to help states navigate their fiscal challenges and identify and understand potential policy approaches |
| State Health Care Spending Project | Helping states better understand their health care spending by conducting original research, convening policy makers, and working with experts in the field |
| Stateline | The daily news service of the Pew Center on the States. |
| State of the States 2013 | Stateline’s 13th annual State of the States report looks at key issues legislatures are debating this year, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between states and the federal government. |
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