Academic achievement in the United States has been in steady decline since 2013, well before the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings from the most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ...

Policymakers can alleviate the harmful impacts of federal funding cuts to transgender health care by establishing state and local health funds to preserve access to transition-related care.

As newly released scores on the global PISA exam show U.S. students trailing other advanced nations in mathematics, federal and state policymakers must act urgently to invest in math education and ...

The official poverty rate fell to 10.2 percent, or 34.5 million people, in 2025, while the supplemental poverty measure remained statistically unchanged at 13.1 percent, or nearly 44.4 million people.

In 2025, the official poverty rate decreased while the supplemental poverty rate remained statistically unchanged. Yet cuts ...

The analysis, released following new annual income data from the U.S. Census Bureau, finds that women working full time, year-round earned 84 cents for every dollar earned by men in 2025, narrowing ...

After widening for two consecutive years, the gender wage gap narrowed in 2025—to 84 cents for women working full time, ...

The wealth gap between the richest Americans and the bottom half of the country has widened significantly since the start of the Trump administration, according to a new analysis from the Center for ...

A sweeping Trump administration proposal to rewrite the rules governing more than $1 trillion in annual federal funding would inject politics into grantmaking, weaken independent scientific research, ...

LGBTQI+ people lack access to safe, quality health care. States can take immediate steps to improve their health systems to better serve LGBTQI+ patients.

As electricity costs rise and states make important decisions about energy affordability, the most successful approaches protect consumers today while continuing to invest in energy efficiency and ...

A new proposed rule from the Trump administration would subject all federally funded grants and research to politically ...