Effectively administering health care programs is a critical element of sound fiscal management for state and local governments. As health care and corrections have emerged in recent years as fiscal ...

Drug compounding—the creation of medicines for patients whose clinical needs cannot be met by commercially available, FDA-approved products—has always been a part of pharmacy practice. But dramatic ...

Beyond 200 nautical miles from the seashore lie the international waters of the high seas global commons covering 45 percent of the Earth’s surface. The time is ripe for a new initiative of great ...

A state of emergency—including those caused by natural disasters such as the recent wildfires around Los Angeles—can have serious implications for access to treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs ...

A toolkit assembled by The Pew Charitable Trusts in 2024 can help state policymakers, policy analysts, and the public better understand the economic development incentives offered by their states and ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA), the intergovernmental body in charge of governing mineral-related activities in international waters, is at a pivotal juncture: The authority could receive an ...

Mexico’s Revillagigedo Archipelago National Park, located 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of the Baja California peninsula in the Pacific Ocean, is now North America’s largest fully protected marine ...

Regional fisheries management organizations, known as RFMOs, are key international entities responsible for the conservation and management of many of the world’s most valuable commercial fish stocks, ...

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts today commended the unanimous passage of H.B. 212 by each chamber of the Utah State Legislature. The bill, sponsored by Representative Christine Watkins (R) and ...

As more states adopt workforce development incentives to address businesses’ need for skilled workers, policymakers will need to routinely review and measure their effectiveness, according to speakers ...

Seth Parker Woods performs a multimedia concert that features the Grammy Award nominee’s cello playing and spoken text alongside moving images of film and visual arts and Roderick George’s ...

Over several weeks in July, when as many as five flash floods devastated the town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, the causes were not as obvious as many people might have thought. Because while rainfall ...