The Pew Charitable Trusts sent comments on Sept. 9 to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the agency’s proposed payment policies in the 2025 physician fee schedule. Among the ...

Funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) lapsed in May 2024, ending a monthly subsidy that 23 million households nationwide had been using to afford high-speed internet connections. The ...

The Federal Reserve intended for today’s interest rate cut of 0.5 percentage points to stimulate the broader economy, but this shift in monetary policy also represents a subtle but important change in ...

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 ...

A December 2023 report from California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office found that the state’s projected deficits had increased to $155 billion through fiscal year 2028, exponentially more than ...

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Only two states reported annual deficits in fiscal year 2022—the fewest in at least 20 years—largely because state revenue collections increased at a record pace nationwide. Despite this short-term ...

Long-term revenue and spending projections can help states determine whether their budgets are on a sustainable path—or whether, instead, they can expect to face structural budget gaps. But although ...

Water quality projects needed to meet goals of the Clean Water Act will cost an estimated $630.1 billion nationwide over the next 20 years, according to the most recent Clean Watersheds Needs Survey ...

Immigrants play an outsize role in Philadelphia’s economy. They fill jobs, create businesses, own homes, and fuel entire industries at rates beyond their growing share of the city’s population (15.7% ...

Most of Philadelphia’s 158,000 foreign-born workers—representing 1 in 5 working residents in 2022 and growing—work for either low or high wages, with few earning somewhere in the middle. The majority ...

Commercial tuna fisheries are among the most valuable fisheries on Earth, and with sales valued at more than US$40 billion a year, they play a vital role in coastal economies. 1 Transshipment – the ...