Perspective: Domestic
Gross Domestic Product by State, 4th Quarter 2020 and Annual 2020 (Preliminary)
The 2020 Long-Term Budget Outlook
Mandatory Spending in Fiscal Year 2020: An Infographic
Annual Survey of State Government Finances Summary: 2019
Discretionary Spending in Fiscal Year 2020: An Infographic
Revenues in Fiscal Year 2020: An Infographic
The Federal Budget in Fiscal Year 2020: An Infographic
Clocking in Amid Coronavirus: How the Workforce Has Changed
State Minimum Wages 2020 Highlights
7 Gallup Workplace Insights: What We Learned in 2020
2020 will likely be remembered as the year the workplace changed forever. From in-office safety measures to work-from-home conference calls, leaders have been forced to reimagine every aspect of their management culture.
What's essential to performance? How does personal life shape professional life? What do our core values really mean when the marketplace throws a curveball?
The Employment Situation - April 2020
State and Local Government Workforce: 2020 Survey
Women Are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers
Claudia Goldin, former head of the American Economic Association, called the period beginning in the mid-1970s the quiet revolution in women's labor. The ranks of female workers had grown steadily after World War II, but what changed drastically starting in the '70s, according to Goldin, wasn't the raw numbers, but mindset. Women made employment decisions for themselves, they pursued careers, and their work became part of their identity. The COVID-19 pandemic, by any measure, has been a blow to that identity.
Millennial State & Local Government Employee Views on Their Jobs, Compensation & Retirement
2020 Census Apportionment Results
Apportionment is the process of dividing the 435 memberships, or seats, in the U.S. House of Representatives among the 50 states. At the conclusion of each decennial census, the results are used to calculate the number of seats to which each state is entitled. Each of the 50 states is entitled to a minimum of one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Women Make Gains in the Workplace Amid a Rising Demand for Skilled Workers
Many Tech Experts Say Digital Disruption Will Hurt Democracy
The years of almost unfettered enthusiasm about the benefits of the internet have been followed by a period of techlash as users worry about the actors who exploit the speed, reach and complexity of the internet for harmful purposes. Over the past four years – a time of the Brexit decision in the United Kingdom, the American presidential election and a variety of other elections – the digital disruption of democracy has been a leading concern.
Demographic Turning Points for the United States: Population Projections for 2020 to 2060
The year 2030 marks a demographic turning point for the United States. Beginning that year, all baby boomers will be older than 65 years of age. This will expand the size of the older population so that one in every five Americans is projected to be of retirement age. Later that decade, by 2034, we project that older adults will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. The year 2030 marks another demographic first for the United States.
Advancing Technological Equity for Incarcerated College Students
Higher education programs that teach in prisons take on a near impossible task: to provide their students with a high-quality education, equal to anything beyond the prison walls, while working under strict constraints. Incarcerated students rarely have access to learning resources typically taken for granted on the outside—computers, books, and internet access are all heavily restricted by various state Departments of Corrections (DOC)—and instructors must work with and around DOC security protocols while planning and teaching their classes.
How Does the Public Health Workforce Compare with the Broader Public Sector?
The 2020 Census: Our Growing Nation
Today the U.S. Census Bureau is releasing results from the 2020 Census, marking the 24th time the nation’s population has been counted since the first census in 1790, when there were just 3.9 million people living in the United States.
The first census helped build the foundation of our democracy, and the census continues to be a cornerstone for our growing nation.
According to the 2020 Census, there were 331,449,281 people living in the United States as of April 1, 2020, which represents a growth of 7.4% since 2010. In the last 100 years, our nation has tripled in size.
Experts Predict More Digital Innovation by 2030 Aimed at Enhancing Democracy
A large share of experts and analysts worry that people’s technology use will mostly weaken core aspects of democracy and democratic representation in the coming decade. Yet they also foresee significant social and civic innovation between now and 2030 to try to address emerging issues.
In this new report, technology experts who shared serious concerns for democracy in a recent Pew Research Center canvassing weigh in with their views about the likely changes and reforms that might occur in the coming years.
Will This School Year Be Another Casualty of the Pandemic? Key Findings from the American Educator Panels Fall 2020 COVID-19 Surveys
School districts across the United States have had to make many difficult decisions to prepare for the 2020–2021 school year amid the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, until now, little information has been gathered directly from teachers and principals about what is happening on the ground, their perceptions of how students are faring, and which students they feel are most at risk of falling behind.
Most Americans Consider Themselves Middle-Class. But Are They?
Chances are that you believe you are in the middle class—nearly everyone in the United States does. Doctors and lawyers believe they are middle-class; so, too, do welders and waiters. In a 2015 Pew survey, only 10 percent of Americans said they considered themselves lower-class and just 1 percent thought they were upper-class.