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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- 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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How Much Does the Federal Government Spend to Promote Economic Mobility and for Whom?
This 2008 report examines exactly how much the federal government invests in the American Dream and encourages economic mobility, what form this encouragement takes and who benefits from these efforts. more
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January 31, 2008
Changing Direction
Despite having built more than 100,000 prison beds in the 1980s and ‘90s, Texas was looking at a 17,000-bed shortfall by 2012 at an additional cost of $900 million for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. more
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- States' Fiscal Health
Promises with a Price
Pew's first 50-state analysis of the long-term costs of public sector retirement benefits found that most states had saved enough to cover about 85 percent of their long-term pension costs, but only three percent of the funds needed for promised retiree health care and other non-pension benefits.
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Common Vision, Different Paths
This 2007 report, written jointly with ZERO TO THREE, provided real-life examples of challenges encountered by five states currently working to build high-quality, comprehensive early childhood systems and the strategies they used to overcome them. more
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- Election Initiatives
The Help America Vote Act at 5
A 2007 report finds that in the five years since HAVA's passage, election administration in this country has undergone profound change but has not necessarily raised the confidence of the American public.
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November 19, 2007
When Offenders Break the Rules
This 2007 report outlines how innovative policy makers are safely and cost-effectively managing a leading driver of prison admissions: parolees and probationers who break the rules of their community supervision.
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November 16, 2007
What Works in Community Corrections
Dr. Joan Petersilia is one of the nation’s most respected experts on community corrections. In 2007, she spoke with Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project about what policy makers should know about the research on these critical programs.
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November 14, 2007
You Get What You Measure
This 2007 report outlines how, as parole and probation agencies heed the call to manage for results, they are looking to models like the New York City Police Department’s Compstat program. more
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- Election Initiatives
Overseas Voting
Research by Pew finds that states have adopted inconsistent processes and requirements for overseas voters, making it difficult for them to participate in the electoral process. In this October 2007 brief, the process of overseas and military voting was examined, from the federal laws that govern the process to the innovations underway to streamline it to the difficulties anticipated in the 2008 primary season.
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- Pre-K Now
Pre-K for Military Families
This 2007 report recommended that state policymakers should help the children of our nation's military personnel meet the unique challenges of the military lifestyle by providing them with high-quality pre-k.
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- Pre-K Now
Dollars and Sense
This 2007 review of 10 studies on the economic impact of pre-k demonstrated why a growing number of business leaders and economists are increasingly convinced that high-quality pre-k is a sound investment.
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- Economic Mobility Project
Economic Mobility in America
This 2007 report raised provocative questions about the continuing ability of all Americans to move up the economic ladder and calls into question whether the American economic meritocracy is alive and well. more
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February 14, 2007
Public Safety, Public Spending
This February 2007 report was the first known attempt to determine the future growth of the nation's state and federal prison systems as a whole.
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Election-Day Registration
This 2007 policy brief, Election-Day Registration: A Case Study, examined Montana's experiences with EDR in 2006, as well as that in Minnesota, where it has been in place for more than 30 years. It also compared EDR rules in other states allowing the process, as well as the legislative history and prospects in the rest of the country.
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- Pre-K Now
Better Outcomes for All
How can Head Start and state pre-kindergarten programs work together to better serve young children and their families? This 2007 report examined the answers, drawing on research and in-depth interviews with state pre-k program directors, Head Start collaboration coordinators, and providers of both Head Start and state pre-k programs.
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- Pre-K Now
An Economic Analysis of Pre-K in Arkansas
This 2006 report found that each dollar invested to date in the high-quality Arkansas Better Chance Pre-K program will yield $2.32 in future savings to the state and that offering pre-k to all children would return savings of more than $100 million.
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Pre-K and Latinos
This 2006 report showed that, by providing Latino children with culturally and linguistically appropriate services in high-quality, pre-k-for-all programs, educators and policymakers can help close the achievement gap and make a major contribution to realizing this growing population's remarkable potential.
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