In the coming months, President Joe Biden and the 117th Congress will tackle a number of environmental, health, public safety, and fiscal and economic issues—nearly all of them complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. To help solve specific, systemic problems in a nonpartisan fashion, Pew has compiled a series of briefings and recommendations based on our research, technical assistance, and advocacy work across America.
Healthy lands, rivers, and ocean provide communities with clean water and air, food, and other essential needs, showing how the vitality of ecosystems and economies is intertwined. But habitat loss and landscape fragmentation, among other threats, are degrading the supply and quality of these critical resources even as demand for them grows. By implementing new and safeguarding existing conservation policies, the president and Congress can ensure these American places remain healthy and productive—protecting wildlife and the natural resources that help our citizens thrive.
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Costly and poorly performing criminal and juvenile justice policies and practices create substantial burdens for governments and residents. Decades of research show a range of strategies for reforming these policies and practices, thus reduce reoffending, shrinking corrections systems, and saving taxpayer dollars. The president and Congress can support fiscally sound, evidence-based state and federal justice policies and practices that ensure public safety, provide accountability, and reduce correctional populations and costs.
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