Analysis
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Payday Loan Borrowing By State
Pew’s survey of payday loan borrowers includes state data on the percentage of people using payday loans and the number of survey interviews completed per state. more
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Public Opinion on Sentencing, Corrections Policy in America
Pew collaborated with two of the nation's leading polling firms to explore public opinion on sentencing and corrections issues across the country. more
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Long-Term Unemployment, Five Ways to Look at It
This series of charts illustrates different dimensions of the U.S. unemployment challenge and addresses key questions about long-term unemployment in the nation. more
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October 3, 2012
Pew Research Relevant to Tonight’s Debate
The first presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will be held tonight in Denver and will focus on domestic policy. Pew provides a variety of resources on topics that may be addressed during the debate, including federal spending, economic mobility, unemployment, and U.S. voter participation. more
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July 19, 2012
Payday Loan Borrowing By State
State payday loan usage ranges from 1 to 13 percent. more
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July 18, 2012
A Short History of Payday Lending Law
A hundred years ago, when a mass market for consumer credit did not yet exist, underground purveyors of consumer credit began to emerge, and a variety of problems ensued. more
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Revitalizing The Housing Market: Lessons from Canada
This paper compares the housing and mortgage finance systems in the United States and Canada and whether there are lessons that could be learned from the recent mortgage and housing crisis. more
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- Public Safety Performance Project
Public Attitudes on Crime and Punishment in Oregon
When asked about crime and punishment, Oregon voters strongly support policies that get results. They want evidence of the public safety impact of state policies and they want a solid taxpayer return-on-investment. more
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- Public Safety Performance Project
Public Opinion on Sentencing and Corrections Policy in America
As part of the Public Safety Performance Project's work with states to improve public safety and control corrections costs, we collaborated with two of the nation's leading polling firms to explore public opinion on sentencing and corrections issues across the country.
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- Children's Dental Campaign
Slideshow: New Types of Dental Providers in Alaska Help Close the Access Gap
Learn more about how dental health aide therapists (DHATs) serve Alaska’s tribal communities. more
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Long-Term Unemployment, Five Ways to Look at It
In April 2010, the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative released A Year or More: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment,which examined the extent of the country’s long-term (LT) unemployment problem and its impact on the nation's fiscal condition. The report defined “long-term unemployment” as a jobless period of a year or longer.
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- States' Fiscal Health
Rhode Island Plan Enacts New Approach to States’ Pension Woes
Faced with rising pension costs, Rhode Island passed a set of reforms to its public sector retirement system that go further than what any other state has done. The bill is unprecedented, both in terms of the employees it will affect and the scope and scale of changes to their benefits.
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November 2011 Update: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment
In the third quarter of 2011 (the three month period from July to September), approximately 31.8 percent of the nearly 14 million Americans who were unemployed had been jobless for a year or more. more
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- Children's Dental Campaign
Reimbursing Physicians for Fluoride Varnish
For young children, the medical office is an ideal place to deliver a set of preventive dental services—including the application of fluoride varnish.
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July 1, 2011
The Debt Ceiling Debate
This brief examines how a potential default by the federal government could present serious challenges to states and cities. more
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May 2011 Update: Paths for Reducing the Federal Debt
This May 2011 addendum used the recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data and certain revised assumptions. Pew's updated projections estimated that, absent any corrective action, publicly held federal debt would reach 111 percent of GDP by 2025, the highest level in American history. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
Economic Mobility and the American Dream: Where Do We Stand in the Wake of the Great Recession?
The Pew Economic Mobility Project conducted an update to its 2009 national poll to reassess the public's perceptions of economic mobility and the American Dream two years later, as the nation emerges from the Great Recession.
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- Fiscal Federalism Initiative
Fiscal Facts: The Great Debt Shift
A new fiscal fact sheet by Pew examines major legislative policies and other drivers of federal debt over the last decade to explain the difference between 2001 projections and the reality today. more
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January 2011 Update: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment
As of December 2010, 30 percent of the 14 million Americans who were unemployed had been jobless for a year or more, according to data produced by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics more
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October 2010 Update: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment
A of August 2010, 4.4 million people—roughly the population of Louisiana—had been out of work for a year or more; an increase of nearly 30 percent since December 2009. more
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- Public Safety Performance Project
Public Attitudes on Crime and Punishment
As part of the Public Safety Performance Project's work in the states to protect public safety and control corrections costs, we worked with two of the nation's leading polling firms, Public Opinion Strategies and the Benenson Strategy Group, to explore public attitudes toward crime and punishment. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
Opinion Poll on Economic Mobility and the American Dream
In early 2009, the project commissioned a national survey and series of focus groups to provide a more accurate picture of how Americans view their own economic mobility and to better understand how their perceptions square with the reality of
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December 4, 2012
Q&A: State Health Care Costs
Experts from Pew and the MacArthur Foundation explain why states are seeking to better understand state health care costs and how the State Health Care Spending Project will find and share the answers. more