The more that antibiotics are used, the less effective they become. This includes the use of antibiotics in food animals, which helps drive the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria. For more than a ...

Antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that as much as 50 percent of the prescriptions—originating in ...

The history of antibiotics is cyclical: Drugs are developed, but bacterial evolution can soon render them ineffective in treating infections. Antibiotic resistance is fueled by the injudicious use of ...

This is one in a series of five articles examining key debates that will unfold in the nation’s statehouses in the year ahead. After two years of relative stability, 2025 marks an inflection point for ...

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 ...

Louisiana can leverage its strong energy expertise to expand its leadership in the supply chain for U.S. offshore wind development, according to a study by Greater New Orleans Inc., the Center for ...

Each new year presents a chance to explore potential challenges and emerging opportunities that could redefine biodiversity conservation. Recently, I worked with a team of 32 international scientists ...

In fiscal year 2024, inflation-adjusted tax revenue fell in 40 states compared with the previous year’s collections, marking the first consecutive years of decline for most states since the 2007-09 ...

Manufactured housing—the modern version of a mobile home—is an important, but underused, form of low-cost housing. 1 Today, about 18 million people live in these homes, and most own rather than rent.

Philadelphia Youth Basketball (PYB), a 2019 Pew Fund for Health and Human Services grantee, uses basketball to help the city’s children and adolescents build the skills they need to be successful on ...

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 ...

As families nationwide struggle with the cost of housing, large majorities of Americans across races and ethnicities support state and local policies that would permit construction of more diverse ...