States’ overall fiscal cushions are quickly eroding, leaving states with fewer resources to address widespread current and ...

Some legislators questioned whether school districts should be responsible for providing certain services to students with ...

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We’ve been trying for half a century to bring simple language to government communications, without much success. Speaking to ...

With promising early results, prevention programs are expanding nationwide as a potentially more effective and cheaper model.

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In a summer 2024 press conference, Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, launched a video featuring a 54-year-old ...

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From drilling groundwater wells to recycling wastewater, the Texas city is launching a host of projects to ward off disaster ...

If abruptly changing federal policy becomes a recurring feature, state and local governments will need to adjust how they ...

A professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, co-editor of Public Finance Journal ...

States have been watching a digital advertising tax in Maryland that has been tied up in litigation for years. Utah thinks ...