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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December 2, 2008
Putting Public Safety First
This 2008 report discussed how more than five million people are under community supervision—either probation or parole—on any given day in the United States. more
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- Pre-K Now
The Pre-K Pinch
This report reveals that eligibility requirements and prohibitively high costs lead such families to sacrifice basic household needs to pay for early education and care for their children, or to settle for low-quality options with unproven benefits.
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- Research & Analysis
- Economic Mobility Project
U.S. Intragenerational Economic Mobility From 1984 to 2004
This 2008 report, U.S. Intragenerational Economic Mobility from 1984 to 2004: Trends and Implications, explored how Americans have moved up and down the income ladder over the last two decades, and whether it has been more difficult for Americans to get and stay ahead in the last decade. The report focused on intragenerational mobility: how individuals change economic positions within their own lifetimes.
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- Election Initiatives
Being Online Is Not Enough
This 2008 report examined election websites' usability and found that when voters cannot easily locate information online, limited resources are diverted to operate costly help lines.
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- Election Initiatives
MVW Bipartisan Poll Results in Support for Military and Overseas Voting
This September 2008 poll showed that 81% of Americans favor creating a uniform national set of rules for military and overseas voters.
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- Election Initiatives
The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act
The problems faced by overseas civilians, military personnel, and their dependents—individuals covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)—have existed since the nation's founding. This September 2008 CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project Working Paper examined the state of research related to UOCAVA voters.
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August 1, 2008
Evaluation of HOPE Probation
Preliminary findings show that probationers assigned to a HOPE caseload perform significantly better than criminal offenders assigned to probation-as-usual.
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July 28, 2008
Getting in Sync
Some offenders need to be put in prison. Others can be managed safely on probation in the community. This 2008 report looks at how judges and prosecutors often face the difficult task of figuring out what to do with defendants who don’t fit cleanly into either group.
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- Research & Analysis
- Economic Mobility Project
Pathways to Economic Mobility
The Economic Mobility Project’s 2008 report explored some of the key factors that affect the likelihood that a person will move up or down the economic ladder over time. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
Upward Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United States
This report introduces two new and flexible measures to examine upward relative economic mobility.
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May 21, 2008
Ten Steps Corrections Directors Can Take to Strengthen Performance
This 2008 report highlighted strategies that strengthen prison operations and, ultimately, cut crime and tame spiraling prison costs.
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Dispatches from the Polls: A Case Study
This May 2008 report, Dispatches from the Polls, examined ways that individual observers of the nation’s elections could be a collective asset, including a recent effort by graduate students at the University of California-Berkeley to study waiting times.
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- Pre-K Now
Meeting the Challenge of Rural Pre-K
This brief laid out the need for greater accessibility to high-quality pre-k in rural communities and proposes a range of policy options that the federal government can consider to address challenges like transportation and facilities and promote collaborations with Head Start.
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- Pre-K Now
Meaningful Investments in Pre-K
This 2008 brief, written jointly with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, examined the costs associated with quality in pre-kindergarten programs.
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April 10, 2008
The Impact of Incarceration on Crime
The 2008 report, The Impact of Incarceration on Crime: Two National Experts Weigh In, features Dr. Alfred Blumstein and Dr. James Q. Wilson, two of the nation’s most respected experts on incarceration and crime.
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March 3, 2008
Grading the States 2008 Report
As a vital component of Pew’s efforts to foster effective solutions to some of America’s most pressing challenges, the Government Performance Project’s Grading the States 2008 report was an assessment of the quality of management in the 50 states. The report’s findings, developed in partnership with Governing Magazine, were generated from extensive interviews and surveys of state-level managers and opinion leaders.
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February 28, 2008
One in 100
A 2008 report by Pew's Public Safety Performance Project detailed how, for the first time in history, more than one in every 100 adults in America were in jail or prison—a fact that significantly impacts state budgets without delivering a clear return on public safety.
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- Election Initiatives
Back to Paper: A Case Study
This February 2008 report detailed how five states that implemented electronic voting had chosen or were considering statewide paper-based optical scan systems. Back to Paper explored the process by which California, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Ohio – had adopted electronic voting systems– ubsequently decided to de-certify, re-examine or re-think their use.
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- Pre-K Now
Funding the Future
This 2008 report highlighted strategies and sources that states and some cities are tapping in order to expand and supplement current pre-k funding during tough fiscal times.
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- Economic Mobility Project
Getting Ahead or Losing Ground
This 2008 report discussed how growing income inequality and slower economic growth suggested that is was time to review the facts about opportunity and mobility in America and to attempt to answer the basic question: Is the American Dream alive and well?
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