Spring 2024

Across the country in the wide expanses of Montana, it was easy less than a decade ago to find a comfortable family home in Bozeman for $250,000. Today, many of those same houses sell for more than $600,000, with prices often driven up by people moving in from more expensive states who have sold a house and have ready cash to buy what they want.

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Heather Peatman is a hardworking photographer and farmer, but she spends a good portion of her days thinking about something entirely different from editing pictures or feeding her animals: how she can get a speedy internet connection.

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Austin Vivolo doesn’t recall what grade he was in when his parents stopped going to church, only that he and his older brother were delighted. “We thought, ‘Oh, we don’t have to go to that boring place anymore where we always have to be quiet.’”

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For more than 75 years, The Pew Charitable Trusts has worked to understand what communities need to thrive, who is missing out and why, and how to lower barriers that keep success out of reach. This issue of Trust takes a close look at some of these essentials: safe and affordable housing, access to high-speed internet, and, for many people, a sense of spirituality.

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For the first time in more than 20 years, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has relaxed federal requirements for how methadone is dispensed at opioid treatment programs (OTPs), the only settings allowed to provide this lifesaving medication.

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