By empowering them to bargain and providing other protections, policymakers can address frustration over flat wages and ...

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has proposed a new refundable child tax credit and increases in child care and children’s health funding, along with full funding for public schools.

Fremont is set to pass an anti-encampment ordinance. Its broad language could penalize nonprofit groups that provide services to homeless populations.

Red states are in sync with the Trump administration’s efforts, but some Democratic governors are reminding districts to protect immigrants’ legal rights.

State and local public health departments rely on federal funding to operate. With those dollars at risk amid the Trump administration’s federal funding freezes, they’re bracing for the future.

Pregnant women who are incarcerated will move into the facility next week. For now, only women with 18 months or less to ...

Gloria Sachdev has spent years taking on the health-care establishment in Indiana, working to pull down high hospital prices ...

For years, states strictly limited the amount of time people could be institutionalized. With homelessness rising, some policymakers want to do more.

A combined federal and state effort to redesign the boondoggle-prone economic development program could also provide the ...

Understaffed police departments and concerns over public safety are spurring greater use of private security guards. But they aren't a perfect substitute.

President Trump, who calls FEMA “not good,” has issued an executive order and established a commission to look at ending the agency. He favors having states respond to their own disasters, but they ...

South Carolina residents are seeing rates go down thanks to a law passed in 2022, but the state still charges a lot more than North Carolina and other southeastern neighbors.