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J.B. Wogan

Staff Writer

J.B. Wogan -- Staff Writer. J.B. covers public programs aimed at addressing poverty and writes the monthly human services newsletter. He has also written for PolitiFact, The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine. He is the co-author of Peak Performance: How Denver's Peak Academy is saving millions of dollars, boosting morale and just maybe changing the world. (And how you can too!)

In 2010, the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association named him "News Writer of the Year" for his work at The Sammamish Review, a community weekly east of Seattle. J.B. is a graduate of Pomona College and has a master's in public policy from Johns Hopkins University. 

New Mexico is the first state to ban the practice. Now the rest have till the end of the school year to adopt an official policy for what happens when parents miss meal payments.
Lots of cities use social science data to help make decisions. But the District of Columbia is going a lot further.
The legislation undoes an Obama-era regulation about who can be drug tested. States will likely get more say over the matter, but not just yet.
Using data to measure government performance has caught on in much of the country. But the tactic is in trouble in Maryland.
The president's budget director wants to eliminate a fund that supports research-backed state and local projects. It's won bipartisan support in the past. Will Congress step in to save it?
Cities are strengthening civilians' authority over law enforcement officers. But just how far should their power extend?
Few families use them -- and even fewer put enough money away to matter. Advocates, however, say the programs are too young to judge.
If signed, the executive action would put green-card holders in danger of deportation and could burden state and local agencies.
The new regulation requires states to help parents in poverty avoid debt and incarceration.
The report comes at a time when some federal policymakers want to end the program and while states and localities are launching similar initiatives of their own.