Pew Charitable Trusts1 年
Racial Disparities Persist in Many U.S. Jails
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 ...
Pew Charitable Trusts6 年
More Imprisonment Does Not Reduce State Drug Problems
Nearly 300,000 people are held in state and federal prisons in the United States for drug-law violations, up from less than 25,000 in 1980. 1 These offenders served more time than in the past: Those ...
Pew Charitable Trusts1 年
Broadband Basics: How it Works, Why It’s Important, and What Comes Next
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Pew Charitable Trusts7 年
Why Are Millions of Citizens Not Registered to Vote?
In every state and the District of Columbia—except North Dakota—individuals who plan to vote in a federal election must first register to vote. However, a sizable share of eligible citizens do not ...
Pew Charitable Trusts9 年
Results First Clearinghouse Database
The Results First Clearinghouse Database is an online resource that brings together information on the effectiveness of social policy programs from nine national clearinghouses. It applies ...
Pew Charitable Trusts7 年
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone
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 ...
Pew Charitable Trusts8 年
Household Expenditures and Income
Expenditures are a key but often overlooked element of family balance sheets. In measuring household financial security, significant attention is typically paid to income, but much less to whether ...
Pew Charitable Trusts9 年
Examining Electronic Monitoring Technologies
Each year, millions of pretrial defendants and convicted offenders are supervised in their communities as they await trial or serve periods of probation or parole. Local and state agencies are ...
Pew Charitable Trusts10 年
Federal Spending in the States
Note: This issue brief has been updated with new data. Click here to see the latest version of “Federal Spending in the States.” The federal government spent $3.1 trillion in the states during its ...
Pew Charitable Trusts5 年
To Safely Cut Incarceration, States Rethink Responses to Supervision Violations
Recent research from The Pew Charitable Trusts found that about 4.5 million people in the United States are on community supervision as of 2016. Probation and parole provide a measure of ...
Pew Charitable Trusts4 年
What Is Medical 3D Printing—and How Is it Regulated?
Advances in 3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, are capturing attention in the health care field because of their potential to improve treatment for certain medical conditions. A ...
Pew Charitable Trusts2 年
Fiscal 50: State Trends and Analysis
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 ...