Several states have begun implementing programs to increase retirement plan coverage. The most common approach involves automatically enrolling workers without a workplace plan in an individual ...

Each year, suicide and drug- and alcohol-related deaths account for more than 200,000 lives lost and hundreds of billions of dollars in medical, economic, and societal costs. 1 Multiple studies show ...

As states begin rolling out the federal program to expand high-speed broadband access, national policymakers need to keep the momentum going after three years of state-led outreach and planning with ...

Los Angeles and Houston could add thousands of low-cost housing units to their downtowns by converting vacant office buildings to “tiny apartments” with shared kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms, ...

Research shows that access to broadband correlates with greater economic opportunity and workforce participation as well as improved health outcomes. But the mere presence of networks is not enough—to ...

Northern abalone, or gálgahl’yaan in the Skidegate Haida language, have long been an important cultural symbol to the Indigenous community of Haida Gwaii, an archipelago 450 miles northwest of ...

To expand the use of a proven approach to reducing the misuse of stimulants, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced in January that it was raising the ...

The past few decades have brought forth a renaissance in cancer research. New technologies and breakthrough findings have transformed how scientists and clinicians understand and diagnose the disease, ...

Retirement security depends on individuals saving for their future, but millions of Americans lack access to an employer-provided savings plan that might help them do so. Research shows that workers ...

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 ...

The people of Pabineau First Nation (PFN) have lived along the banks of the Nepisiguit River since time immemorial—as they say—in what is now the province of New Brunswick, Canada. And this year, PFN ...

Temporary and season-long closures of fishing areas are increasingly used as a tool to protect whales, especially the endangered North Atlantic right whale, from entanglement in fishing gear. To ...