Winter 2025
Meeting today’s challenges requires answers based on deep research and collaboration that seeks lasting success. Last year, Pew joined with Indigenous governments, the governments of the Northwest Territories and Canada, and other partners to conserve lands and waters for future generations. We worked with partners to explore modern sources of energy and to discover how the public is navigating a transformed news and information system—and what that means for democracy. We developed solutions to ease the nation’s housing crunch and worked to remove impediments to medical care.
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It’s been 40 years since the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences was founded in 1985. In that time, the program, the first in the organization’s history to carry the Pew name, has supported more than 800 outstanding young researchers, many of whom have gone on to receive major scientific awards, including six Nobel Prizes.
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When The Pew Charitable Trusts created Pew Research Center in 2004, we were surveying Americans using the established industry method at the time: calling people on their landline phones and hoping they’d answer. As the Center marked its 20th anniversary last year, survey methods have become more diverse, and we now conduct most of our interviews online. Public opinion itself has also changed in major ways over the last 20 years, just as the country and world have. Here’s a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on topics ranging from technology and politics to religion and social issues.
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Seth Parker Woods performs a multimedia concert that features the Grammy Award nominee’s cello playing and spoken text alongside moving images of film and visual arts and Roderick George’s interpretive dancing. The concert, “Difficult Grace,” used layers of artistic expression to explore identity and history inspired by the Great Migration, immigration, and poetry by Kemi Alabi and Dudley Randall. The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage supported the concert, which took place in Philadelphia last spring. For the past two decades, the Center has invested in ambitious and substantive work showcasing the Philadelphia region’s artistic vitality.
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Black and Hispanic student loan borrowers are more likely to have difficulty repaying their loans than their White peers and are also more likely to face barriers to completing degrees. This, coupled with other educational and economic barriers grounded in structural, historic, and disparate practices in the housing and labor markets, can make payments more challenging and lead to loan default.
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