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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- Pre-K Now
Transforming Public Education
In its final report, Pre-K Now laid out a strategy to transform public education by moving from the current K-12 model to a more effective, evidence-based pre-K-12 system.
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- Fiscal Federalism Initiative
The Costs and Benefits of Housing Tax Subsidies
Research has attributed many economic and social costs and benefits to housing. This study assesses one very targeted component of this complex issue—the fiscal costs and benefits of the housing subsidies that currently exist in the U.S. income tax system and the impact of several alternatives. more
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- Pre-K Now
Pre-K as School Turnaround Strategy
This issue brief highlights how investing limited funds in proven early education programs can raise student achievement and improve school performance.
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- Children's Dental Campaign
The State of Children's Dental Health
More than 16 million children still lack access to basic dental care despite efforts by states to improve their dental health policies, according to the 2011 50-state report card from Pew.
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Measuring Transportation Investments
States spent an estimated $131 billion on transportation in fiscal year 2010, but many cannot answer critical questions about what returns this investment is generating. more
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Upgrading Democracy
This 2010 report argued that Americans deserve a more cost-effective, accurate and efficient registration system that protects the integrity of the process and ensures that more eligible voters—and only eligible voters—are on the rolls.
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April 27, 2011
Hidden Risks
A checking account is the most basic and necessary financial product for American consumers. Nine out of 10 Americans have a checking account, making it the most widely utilized financial services product in the United States.
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April 25, 2011
The Widening Gap
The gap between the promises states have made for public employees’ retirement benefits and the money set aside to pay for them grew to at least $1.26 trillion in fiscal year 2009—a 26 percent increase in one year—according to a Pew report.
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April 11, 2011
State of Recidivism
More than four in ten offenders nationwide return to state prison within three years of their release despite a massive increase in state spending on prisons, according to this 2011 report.
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- Fiscal Federalism Initiative
Methodology for Distributing a VAT
This paper examines the methodology for distributional analysis of a VAT and presents a revised methodology that would improve the analysis.
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- Fiscal Federalism Initiative
Addendum: No Silver Bullet: Paths for Reducing the Federal Debt
In September 2010, the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative released No Silver Bullet: Paths for Reducing the Federal Debt, which analyzed the implications of rising federal debt and modeled different remedies for reducing it to 60 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in fiscal years 2025 or 2035. Since then, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated its 10-year projections to reflect the most recent economic data as well as the cost of new legislation enacted after August 2010.
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The Cost of Delivering Voter Information
This March 2011study examined the costs of disseminating voter information in California’s 58 counties and identified opportunities to reduce spending without cutting essential services.
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- States' Fiscal Health
States’ Revenue Estimating
This 2011 report examined state estimates for three major revenue sources—income taxes, sales taxes and corporate taxes—that comprise 72 percent of states’ total tax revenues. more
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Pew's Elections Performance Index
The February 2011 Pew Elections Performance Index, describes an ongoing project to provide an empirical assessment of how well the nation’s elections are administered.
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- Pre-K Now
On the Home Front
This issue brief from Pre-K Now details the results of an Internet survey of 500 military households exploring the challenges facing military families with young children.
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- Fiscal Federalism Initiative
December 2010 Addendum: A Year or More: 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. That percentage is the highest since World War II, and it translates into more than 4.2 million people, roughly equivalent to the total population of Kentucky
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Creative State Pre-K Policies Offer Smart Federal Opportunities
This brief highlights some of the most promising state efforts to fund high-quality Pre-K programs and offers recommendations to help federal policy makers support and encourage greater expansion. more
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- Children's Dental Campaign
It Takes A Team
This 2010 report was the first to examine the impact that hiring new types of dental providers—dental therapists and hygienists-therapists—could have on both the productivity and profits of a private dental practice, where more than 90 percent of the nation’s dentists work.
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Moving Toward a Better Election System for Military and Overseas Voters
The Pew Center on the States’ Military and Overseas Citizen Voting Initiative aims to remove the obstacles facing military personnel and citizens living abroad to ensure they can exercise their right to vote—no matter where they may be around the world.
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The Cost of Statewide Recounts
As part of its work to help build high-performing states, the Pew Center on the States commissioned a case study on two recent, high-profile statewide races that underwent recounts: the 2004 Washington state governor’s race and the 2008 Minnesota U.S. Senate race.
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