The Pew Charitable Trusts

The Pew Economic Mobility Project conducted an update to its 2009 national poll to reassess the public's perceptions of economic mobility and the American Dream two years later, as the nation emerges from the Great Recession.

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

A May 2011 report, Measuring Transportation Investments: The Road to Results, found considerable differences among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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.

TODAY'S TAKE: The state budget that North Dakota lawmakers approved last week raises general-fund expenditures by 20 percent over two years. Governor Jack Dalrymple and the Legislature masked the huge increase with an accounting maneuver, The Associated Press finds. more