On Wednesday, July 25 at 11:00 a.m., the Economic Mobility Project will host a briefing to discuss its new report on economic mobility and immigrants.

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies will host the U.S. launch of an international consultation on a new Code for Responsible Nanotechnology aimed principally at businesses and research organizations.

The National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force will release their final set of recommendations for state early childhood accountability systems, and for linking such efforts to standards-based assessment efforts in kindergarten and the primary grades.  

Discussion with Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center and Victor Yuan, Horizon Research Consultancy Group.

Congressional briefing convened by Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production

In a conference call for journalists, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life will release the first report of a landmark survey that details the religious affiliation of the American public and explores the remarkable dynamism taking place in the U.S. religious marketplace.

Top officials at the agencies responsible for the regulation of nanotechnology products -- including the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Department of Agriculture -- will meet at a Food and Drug Law Institute conference to discuss their plans for managing and monitoring these products.

A news conference from The National Institute for Early Education Research to release the findings of the 2007 annual State of Preschool report.

The Forum for the Study of Democracy and Autocracy is hosting a free symposium of academics, American political reformers, and democracy promotion practitioners.

National Marine Fisheries Service Poised to Issue Proposals that Could Set Historic Rules for Managing Wild Fish Populations 

The Economic Mobility Project, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, will hold a panel discussion about how much the federal government spends on promoting economic mobility.

Nanotech Expert Will Highlight Hurdles to Government Oversight & Gaining Public Trust

The Pew Environment Group will host a tele-press briefing to provide immediate insight and political analysis on a proposed fisheries rule issued that morning by NMFS.

The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production received an invitation today from the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health to testify on Thursday, June 12, at 10 a.m. on Administration Legislative Proposals on the Animal Drug User Fee Act Amendments of 2008 and the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Act of 2008.

Press conference to release findings from the Pew Research Center’s 2008 Global Attitudes survey conducted in 24 countries.

In a noon EDT conference call for journalists on Monday, June 23, 2008, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life will release the second report of a landmark survey that examines the tremendous diversity of Americans’ religious beliefs and practices as well as their social and political views.

Environmental Protection Agency official J. Clarence Davies, one of the nation's foremost authorities on environmental regulation and policy, releases his new report that identifies the steps the incoming president must take to deal with the potential risks posed by nanotechnology.

Democracy at a Distance:  A Summit to Make Voting Work for Military and Overseas Voters by the Pew Center on the States and its partners.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the New America Foundation host an in-depth analysis of the new fiscal landscape with many of the country's leading experts.

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Point Carbon present the Carbon Market Insights Americas 2008 conference, which will provide participants with a fresh analysis on climate policy and carbon markets in North America.

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and the National Science Foundation are hosting a closed meeting at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for about a dozen of the country's top nanotechnology researchers from industry and academe to gain insight into the scientific and technological developments leading to future generations of nanoscale devices and systems.

Leading policymakers, election officials and experts across the field come together to present research, build partnerships and encourage discussion aimed at shaping the future of American elections in 2009 and beyond.

Share Advocacy Strategies, Plan for 2009

Telebriefing Monday with Rep. Grijalva, former Forest Service Chief, green groups.

The goals of this Federal Policy Briefing are two-fold: to learn and to set the stage for the next four years.

The Blue Vision Summit on March 7 -10, 2009, will bring together a strong and diverse constituency ready to work for ocean and coastal protection and restoration.

Members of the media may join a teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, to find out more about this new legislation and why it is important to protecting human health.

Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, the nation’s oil spill experts find that America’s sensitive Arctic and sub-Arctic marine waters including Bristol Bay, the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea are still at risk from oil and gas development.

On Thursday, April 2, the Pew Environment Group and WWF will lead a press conference call to preview the first-ever joint Arctic Council/ Antarctic Treaty Ministerial Meeting and the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. 

Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Change, will speak on issues and challenges we face sustaining sustainability.

Economic Mobility Project research manager Scott Winship will participate in a panel discussion about a new framework to promote savings and economic mobility developed by NYU Sociology Professor Dalton Conley.

This year’s conference will draw from the tremendous knowledge and talent available in Washington, including presenters from government, think tanks, and associations, focusing on the economy, healthcare, criminal justice, infrastructure, the 2010 Census, and more.

This Wednesday, September 23, at 1:00 pm, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law will hold the first ever hearing on private student loans and bankruptcy. Lauren Asher, president of the Project on Student Debt’s parent organization, the Institute for College Access & Success, will testify as an invited expert witness.

This forum for statehouse journalists will feature a series of in-depth sessions that will describe states’ current and long-term fiscal pressures, examine the effect of the stimulus on the states and detail national and regional economic trends.

EPA Administrator Jackson to Deliver Keynote Address

On Wednesday, October 28, Pew will lead a press call to discuss the importance and urgency of protecting Antarctica’s iconic species including whales, penguins and seals.

With one month to go before the Copenhagen summit, leading climate experts will join Janos Pasztor, the director of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, on a phone briefing this Thursday, November 12 at 10 A.M. EST to set the stage for the upcoming climate meeting. 

California's problems are in a league of their own. But the same pressures that pushed it toward fiscal disaster are wreaking havoc in state capitals around the country, more acutely in some than in others.

This November 19 event will feature the release of a timely new report by The Economic Mobility Project, "A Penny Saved is Mobility Earned: Advancing Economic Mobility through Savings."