Reports
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Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment
This report examines how American families cope with unexpected financial setbacks and the economic effects from unemployment. more
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Combating Medicaid Fraud and Abuse
The State Health Care Spending Project created an online database containing hundreds of practices found to be promising by state and federal Medicaid agencies. more
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Imperfect Protection
Unlike checking accounts that carry up to $250,000 in mandatory deposit insurance per customer, prepaid cards are not required to carry any at all. This creates consequences for the security of consumers. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
Retirement Security Across Generations
This report explores how the Great Recession affected the wealth and retirement security of baby boomers relative to younger and older age groups. more
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- Fiscal Federalism Initiative
The Geographic Distribution of the Mortgage Interest Deduction
The mortgage interest deduction is one of the largest tax expenditures in the U.S. tax code but the rate at which it is claimed and the average amount deducted vary widely across and within states. With changes to tax expenditures
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- Economic Mobility Project
Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment
This report examines how American families cope with unexpected financial setbacks, with a focus on how periods of unemployment affect family economic security and mobility.
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- American Cities Project
Cities Squeezed by Pension and Retiree Health Care Shortfalls
This brief finds that 30 cities at the center of the nation’s most populous metropolitan areas faced more than $192 billion in unpaid commitments for pensions and other retiree benefits, primarily health care, as of fiscal 2009 and are employing a variety of strategies to address these shortfalls.
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- State Health Care Spending
Combating Medicaid Fraud and Abuse
States are targeting Medicaid fraud and abuse with an array of policies and tools. To help policy makers learn about steps taken in their state and across the country, the State Health Care Spending Project created an online database containing hundreds of practices found to be promising by state and federal Medicaid agencies.
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March 5, 2013
Imperfect Protection
General purpose reloadable prepaid cards have rapidly gained popularity. They allow consumers to direct deposit their paychecks and pay their bills online, just like a checking account. But unlike checking accounts that carry up to $250,000 in mandatory deposit insurance per customer, prepaid cards are not required to carry any at all.
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February 20, 2013
How Borrowers Choose and Repay Payday Loans
This report—the second in Pew’s Payday Lending in America series—answers questions about why borrowers choose payday loans, how they ultimately repay the loans, and how they feel about their experiences.
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- Election Initiatives
Elections Performance Index
The Elections Performance Index is a project that, for the first time ever, examines election administration performance across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. more
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- State Health Care Spending
Health Care Spending Slowdown? Not for States and Localities
While total U.S. health care spending grew slowly in 2011, rising about 4 percent, the story for state and local governments was dramatically different.
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- Home Visiting Campaign
Solving Social Ills Through Early Childhood Home Visiting
The Pew Home Visiting Campaign presents 11 studies highlighting gains in education, health and future livelihoods at less cost to taxpayers through home visiting.
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January 16, 2013
A Widening Gap in Cities
A number of the nation’s key cities face unpaid bills for the retirement benefits they have promised their employees. This report examines pension and retiree health care funding in 61 cities—the most populous one in each state plus all others with populations over 500,000—and looks at options for reform.
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- Economic Mobility Project
How Much Protection Does a College Degree Afford?
This report provides an in-depth look at young college graduates’ employment opportunities as compared to less-educated groups. more
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- Children's Dental Campaign
Falling Short
Pew’s 50-state report finds that most states are not doing enough to use a proven strategy for preventing tooth decay, unnecessarily driving up health care costs for families and taxpayers.
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- Fiscal Federalism Initiative
The Fiscal Cliff and Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Among the expiring tax provisions and scheduled spending cuts included in the fiscal cliff is the end of certain federally funded unemployment insurance (UI) benefits at the end of 2012. While the expiration of these benefits would have little direct effect on state budgets, it could affect economic activity in the states. Those impacts would vary depending on current unemployment rates and overall economic conditions within each state.
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December 13, 2012
Avoiding Blank Checks
Two up-front steps can help states create fiscally sound tax incentives. When policy makers omit these steps, they leave their states vulnerable to unexpected budget challenges. more
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- Fiscal Federalism Initiative
Tax Expenditure Database
Pew's Tax Expenditure Database helps policy makers, journalists, researchers and the public better understand the role that tax expenditures play in the nation’s budget and economy.
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November 27, 2012
Banking on Arbitration
The report, Banking on Arbitration: Big Banks, Consumers, and Checking Account Dispute Resolution, reviews the 100 largest financial institutions’ dispute resolution clauses as well as consumer attitudes about these practices.
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- Fiscal Federalism Initiative
The Impact of the Fiscal Cliff on the States
The state impact of the fiscal cliff’s expiring federal tax provisions and scheduled spending cuts is missing from the national discussion. This study finds that the effects on the states vary greatly based on the extent to which states are tied to the federal tax code and federal spending.
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- Economic Mobility Project
Weathering the Great Recession
This issue brief from the Economic Mobility Project explores how residents of high- and low-poverty neighborhoods fared in terms of employment, wages, wealth, and housing losses during the Great Recession.
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Out of Balance
How healthy are the snack foods sold in secondary schools via vending machines, school stores and snack bars? This report on unhealthy snack foods suggests the issue could be more than bite-sized. more