Register now to hear and discuss the latest fascinating data from the Pew Charitable Trusts's annual compendium about Philadelphia and comparable U.S. cities. Pew's Philadelphia research director, Katie Martin, will show and discuss Pew's 2025 State of the City report, which was released this past April. The global research organization, founded in Philadelphia, says its hometown Philadelphia in early 2025 appeared to be entering a new and different phase after years of pandemic-related reverberations. The question is which effects from the past few years will turn out to have been temporary and which will prove more enduring. "The answers are beginning to come into sharper focus," Pew's research team found. Homicides and shootings, which rose dramatically at the height of the pandemic, have fallen to the lowest levels in a decade. Unemployment rates, which were high in 2020 and 2021, have been relatively low for several years. And the poverty rate continues to decline. Nevertheless, Philadelphia faces major uncertainties in the form of shifts in federal funding, increasing housing costs, the ongoing opioid epidemic, and a citywide population that has shrunk from its pre-pandemic peak. Katie will go over dozens of data points from the report, a leading source of reliable data about the city trusted by local organizations, government policymakers, and the public. Find all Pew's reports on Philadelphia at http://pewtrusts.org/philaresearch. Before joining Pew, Katie served as Deputy Policy Director in the office of Mayor Michael Nutter. She holds bachelor’s degrees from Boston University in philosophy and political science, and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Pennsylvania.