Government Performance

The Government Performance team provides the nonpartisan research, solutions, and momentum decisionmakers need to ensure our institutions improve the health of people in the United States and enable them to successfully climb the economic ladder.


Those goals are pursued through a wide range of the portfolio’s policy-focused projects (with explorations into new areas underway)—from ensuring states’ finances are prepared for future volatility, to unlocking gateways to mental health care, to addressing the nation’s lack of attainable housing.


Pew’s Government Performance team is successful when we:

· Foresee systemic challenges that could be avoided, mitigated, or resolved before they become insurmountable or politically toxic.

· Fill information gaps with data, research, and proven models.

· Hold leaders of institutions accountable to ensure they anticipate future challeng...