Winter 2023
In the high seas of the South Atlantic Ocean, more than 200 miles off the coast of Argentina, lies one of the world’s largest fisheries. Hundreds of vessels from around the globe amass there to fish for Argentine shortfin squid, which feed along the edge of the Continental Shelf; the catch is sold worldwide, including in many U.S. restaurants as calamari. The vessels use powerful lights to lure squid toward the surface before snagging them with jigging lines—lights so bright and plentiful that they appear clearly on satellite photographs of the Earth at night.
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As the world evolved—offering new problems and opportunities—Pew rose to the challenge in 2022, finding ways to help communities and people thrive.
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New efforts in Texas diffuse potentially volatile situations and provide care to those in need.
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The Benjamin Franklin Parkway runs through the heart of Center City in Philadelphia, where The Pew Charitable Trusts was founded by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Co. founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew. This year marks Pew’s 75th anniversary and over those years the organization has worked in its hometown to support social service and civic organizations and the arts even as its other projects have expanded throughout the nation and around the globe.
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Throughout the 13 Colonies in 1741, the young preacher Jonathan Edwards saw Americans standing on “slippery, declining ground, on the edge of a pit” as Christians pursued wealth, frolicked on the Sabbath, questioned predestination—and even thought good works might lead a soul to heaven.
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