Editor’s note: This article was updated on January 6, 2024 to correct details of certain tax credit programs and offices. Tax incentives are one of the primary ways states seek to spur business ...

A proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This is borne out in science, where a collective approach is often the best way to solve a difficult problem.

With few new starter or lower-cost homes being built in the U.S., communities throughout the nation could leverage manufactured homes (modern mobile homes) to help increase the housing supply. However ...

The effort to secure the world’s first regional policy to curb a major source of microplastic pollution in Europe took a welcome step forward this week when the Council of the EU finalized its ...

What problem is this policy meant to address? Medicare Part D plans (PDPs) are required to cover at least two drugs in each therapeutic class, defined as a group of drugs used to treat the same ...

Every 16 minutes, a person in the United States dies from an opioid overdose. 1 Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic brain disease caused by the recurrent use of opioids, including prescription ...

Pew's Safe Small-Dollar Loans Research Project classified states into three categories—Permissive, Hybrid, and Restrictive—based on their payday loan regulations. Nationally, the average usage rate ...

States use economic development incentives to encourage companies to locate or expand. An incentive has benefits for residents when the economic gains it generates, less its costs and any negative ...

Nearly a quarter of the 48,043 juveniles held in residential facilities across the U.S. on a single day in 2015 were confined for status offenses or technical violations of supervision, according to ...

States, like the federal government, recorded sharp increases in incarceration and corrections costs over the past three decades. However, between 2007 and 2013, many states made research-driven ...

Since 2007, 35 states have reformed their sentencing and corrections policies through the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, a public-private partnership that includes the U.S. Justice Department’s ...

The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) spans 4.5 million square kilometers (1.7 million square miles) between Hawaii and Mexico, an abyssal plain as wide as the continental United States and punctuated by ...