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Early Planning Can Curb Costs, Climate Stress on Neglected Infrastructure
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 ...
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Over $10 Million in New Funding to Strengthen Philadelphia-Area Cultural Groups and Artists
PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 24, 2024)—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) announced today that it has awarded $10.2 million to 39 Philadelphia-area cultural organizations and artists, including $3 ...
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Biodiversity Funding Shortfall Could Hamper Global Economic Growth
Nature, including our planet’s forests, oceans, wildlife, and more, plays a major role in our economy and overall societal well-being. In fact, the World Economic Forum estimates that more than half ...
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Climate Change Poses Risks to Neglected Public Transportation and Water Systems
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 ...
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Manufactured Homes Are a Crucial Source of Lower-Cost Housing, but Financing Is a Major Hurdle
With few new starter or lower-cost homes being built in the U.S., communities throughout the nation could leverage manufactured homes (modern mobile homes) to help increase the housing supply. However ...
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Suicide Care Initiative Helps Health Systems Boost Prevention Efforts
About half of people who die by suicide in the United States each year had a health care visit in the month preceding their deaths, which means there are opportunities for hospitals and health systems ...
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The Time Has Come to Help America’s Forgotten Homebuyers
Earlier this year, ProPublica reported the story of aspiring homeowners like Abdinoor Igal and other members of Minnesota’s Somali American community who risked their financial well-being to pursue ...
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How U.S. Communities Can Help Deliver the Clean Energy Future
Over the next few months, citizens in more than 60 nations will choose leaders who will shape the future of those countries—and our planet. A key issue in many of these elections is how communities ...
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As Threats to Biodiversity Soar, Governments Must Boost Conservation Funding
A fundamental truth about large-scale conservation – which is essential for enhancing biodiversity, ecosystem health, climate stability and ultimately human well-being – is that it requires ...
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Transforming Evidence Network to Co-Host International Conference in South Africa, Nov. 19-21
The Pew Charitable Trusts, Pan-African Collective for Evidence, and African Center for Equitable Development will co-host the 2024 Transforming Evidence Network (TEN) Conference, which takes place Nov ...
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States Reckon With Lapse of the Broadband Affordable Connectivity Program
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 ...