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Chris Kardish

Staff Writer

Chris covers health care for GOVERNING. An Ohio native with an interest in education, he set out for New Orleans with Teach For America after finishing a degree at Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. He later covered government and politics at the Savannah Morning News and its South Carolina paper. He most recently covered North Carolina’s 2013 legislative session for the Associated Press.

An especially harsh winter has prompted even southern states to consider relaxing the number of days children have to be in school.
States are trying to figure out how to budget for a new Affordable Care Act fee that varies based on how much they rely on managed-care companies.
Some states are seeking to send their sickest inmates to private facilities, allowing them to shift significant costs to the federal government. But those ideas can come with political costs.
Governors are united in their opposition to the proposed Pentagon budget that would reduce forces to their lowest levels since pre-World War II.
The city is retooling its community colleges to graduate more students ready for the workforce. Some worry the changes aren't focused on finding graduates the best kind of jobs.
His state may become the first to repeal Medicaid expansion after becoming the first to enact it with a privatized model.
A new study in the American Journal of Public Health finds taxes on sugary drinks cause no net harm to the job market and raise government revenues substantially.
Of the 17 states that have placed additional regulations on the people helping consumers sign up for coverage on the insurance exchanges, Texas has enacted some of the strictest.
A report highlighted in the aftermath of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's apparent heroin overdose notes that most states lack the recommended laws to curb overdose deaths.
A proposal to improve the city's education system dissolves the board and gives far greater autonomy to individual schools, who would answer to a slimmed-down district office.