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Stateline

Nonpartisan, Nonprofit News Service of the Pew Charitable Trusts

Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that reports and analyzes trends in state policy.

The face of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. is increasingly black or Latino, poor, often rural—and Southern.
The proportion of people living alone has grown steadily since the 1920s, raising a host of health and safety issues for government and community groups.
More states, high school sports associations and individual schools are adopting measures to protect student athletes from heat stroke and other serious risks to their health.
State cooperative extensions are transforming themselves in an effort to remain relevant.
Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Hawaii are collaborating to keep track of students who move out of state.
In 37 states, SNAP error rates fell between fiscal year 2008 through fiscal year 2013.
Campaign contributions for state races this year likely will surpass a record $2.1 billion collected in the last election.
Two years after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals action, state responses vary.
States are trying to budget with an eye on results.
Rapidly increasing poverty, scarce jobs and even scarcer resources are now a feature of suburban life.