In today’s information-driven, highly mobile society, people expect the information they need to be available immediately and through multiple online platforms. Pew’s Election Initiatives has spent three years developing the Voting Information Project, which leverages technology to increase voter access to critical election information and improve the efficiency of state election administration. The project works with election offices, Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Facebook, civic groups, and numerous outlets around the country to deliver important answers to voters’ most commonly asked questions. more

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

This November 2011 fact sheet, Does America Promote Mobility As Well As Other Nations?, previewed selected key findings from a multi-country study of economic mobility.

An interactive map highlighting the checking account practices of the 10 largest U.S. banks and the percentage of people without bank accounts in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. more