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Recent RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
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- Dispatch
- Election Initiatives
North Dakota Dispatch: Smaller Counties Mean Larger Election Costs
In North Dakota, research indicates that elections cost significantly more per voter in smaller counties than larger ones.
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- Dispatch
- Election Initiatives
Welcome to Election Data Dispatches
Election Data Dispatches is our round-up of the best stories, data, research and analysis that the world of election administration has to offer. It is election administration by the numbers, served up regularly for you to use and share.
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- Issue Brief
- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
Letter: Regulatory Authority and Priorities of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Pew Charitable Trusts, joined by banking, consumer and civil rights organizations, submitted a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) asking them to act quickly to ensure that consumers are protected from unfair banking practices and are provided important information about their accounts.
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September 22, 2011
Erin Currier: Economic Mobility and the American Dream
Erin Currier, a project manager with Pew’s Economic Mobility Project, discusses how people move up and down the economic ladder over their lifetimes and across generations.
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- Issue Brief
- Public Safety Performance Project
Risk-Needs Assessment 101: Science Reveals New Tools to Manage Offenders
This 2011 report looked at how these tools can help officials to better identify offenders at a high risk of reoffending, while also pinpointing the types of supervision and services that are most likely to prevent future criminal behavior and slow the revolving door of America’s prisons.
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September 15, 2011
Shelly Gehshan: The Gap in Dental Care
Shelly Gehshan discusses the gap in dental care and how, nationwide, more than 16 million children go without seeing a dentist each year.
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- Report
- Election Initiatives
Upgrading Voter Registration Design
Inefficiencies in America’s voter registration systems lead to an inaccurate and costly registration process. Pew has been working with state and local election officials, as well as technology experts, to upgrade voter registration systems by improving the technology used to keep registration records up to date. To ensure the highest degrees of security protocols are achieved, Pew commissioned the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), to analyze the ERIC system design and make recommendations.
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- Economic Mobility Project
Downward Mobility From the Middle Class
This 2011 report examines potential factors that cause some Americans who grow up in the middle class to fall down the economic ladder as adults.
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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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- Q & A
- States' Fiscal Health
Kil Huh: The Federal Debt Deal Crucial for States
Kil Huh explains how the federal debt deal may affect the states when Congress returned from its 2011 summer recess. more