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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.

5 states are considering bills that would have state pension systems sell coal and oil stocks. Some 20 universities and 30 cities have already divested.
In addition to New York, Connecticut and Texas, relief proposals have been up for debate in Pennsylvania, Maine and Nebraska this year.
Cash-strapped states are looking to tax amnesty programs that give scofflaws a bit of a break on penalties and interest if they own up and pay up.
The price of a single camera ranges widely, but managing and storing the video costs many times the price of the cameras themselves.
Oregon is one of eight states that have reaped financial benefits from expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
More than 200 state legislators have participated in workshops aimed at improving civil discourse and building bipartisan trust. Can they work?
Some states are looking to give senior citizens additional saving on their taxes, although they are the richest age group and already enjoy favorable treatment.
Part of Indiana’s Medicaid expansion plan calls for raising reimbursement rates to try to persuade doctors to accept Medicaid patients. Fourteen other states are doing the same.
The focus has been on California’s drought, but dozens of other states are facing their own water woes.
Many states are looking to end the “double deduction” of state and local taxes from their state income taxes.