Research shows that homebuyers often struggle to obtain small mortgages—those for less than $150,000—even in metropolitan areas where low-cost homes are plentiful. To better understand the financing ...

What Is Antibiotic Resistance—and How Can We Fight It? Sign up for our four-week email series The Race Against Resistance. Quick View Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, also known as “superbugs,” are a ...

Communities around the world are increasingly suffering the consequences of accelerating changes in the global climate, such as more frequent and severe storms, extreme heat, rapid swings in ...

The growing impacts of climate change—from near-term events such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, to longer-term risks, including higher temperatures, droughts, and sea-level rise—have wreaked ...

Fiscal 50 is an interactive platform that provides clear, data-driven portraits of state fiscal conditions. Users can view, sort, and analyze data on key trends that shape states’ fiscal health now ...

Procedural hurdles can slow housing development and add costs because builders must pay for more staff, attorney, and consultant time, as well as interest on borrowed money, while they wait for local ...

Pew’s Philadelphia research and policy initiative seeks to inform discussions on important issues facing the city and the region and to provide policymakers and other decision-makers with data, ...

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The large growth of the United States’ criminal legal system in the late 20th century brought a widening racial gap in incarceration. 1 By the year 2000, Black people made up almost half of the state ...

In June 2022, The Pew Charitable Trusts assessed the status of Philadelphia’s economic recovery two years into the pandemic, identifying five key questions likely to determine the city’s future ...

Rural communities in the United States often do not have sufficient access to broadband service, and many lack the density necessary to entice commercial internet service providers (ISPs).

Plastic is an inescapable part of everyday life, found everywhere from homes to factories to grocery stores—and, increasingly, the ocean. More than 11 million metric tons of plastic waste enter the ...