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Johns Hopkins sociologist Stefanie DeLuca, arguing that what a good school looks like for poorer families looks very different from what a good school looks like for middle-class families.
The growing industry is making money and building momentum, driving GOP lobbyists and lawmakers to work with pot advocates.
Scott Walker signs $541 million tax cut legislation.
Most states aren't providing health care price information in an accessible way, despite the existence of disclosure laws in many states.
How other states can learn lessons from Alabama.
The education secretary once liked the idea of letting them run their schools. It's an idea that still shows a lot of promise.
Number of 911 calls made in 2013 connected to Martha Rigsby, Washington, D.C.'s most frequent 911 user.
Under a deal announced Monday by several voting-rights groups, the state will send voter registration cards to nearly 3.8 million Californians who have applied for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Pro- and anti-gun forces do not agree on much, but they do agree on the breathtaking sweep of the Georgia legislation allowing guns in bars, schools, restaurants, churches and airports that is now awaiting the signature of Gov. Nathan Deal.
Anywhere from a few dozen to more than 10,000 people could be eligible to have their old marijuana convictions overturned as the result of a landmark Colorado Court of Appeals ruling that applied marijuana legalization retroactively.
Detroit bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes is seeking an expert witness to assess the feasibility of the city’s proposed restructuring plan.
Gov. Chris Christie has firmly stated he will never sign a pot legalization bill if it ever made it to his desk.
Less than four years after Indiana became an early adopter of the national Common Core education standards, Gov. Mike Pence signed legislation Monday making Indiana the first state to opt out of the controversial K-12 guidelines.
A Baltimore program that requires participants to use their government rental aid in low-poverty, mostly white suburbs sheds light on how government can implement housing vouchers more effectively.
View local area minimum wages, adjusted for cost of living.
Detroit's plan of adjustment out of bankruptcy pays creditors pennies on the dollar, a move that could hurt its ability to borrow in the future.
While minimum-wage workers feel the pinch everywhere, it’s far more difficult to make a living in the nation’s most expensive urban centers. View data and read an analysis for more than 300 cities.
The Galveston Bay spill will take a gigantic economic and ecological toll on the state and the region.
With the help of a first-place award from a national public policy contest, a team of graduate students plans to increase breastfeeding rates in New York City.
The area of Snohomish County hit by a mudslide Saturday has long been susceptible to slides and floods, and the state has previously taken steps to try to stabilize it.
In some states there are new benefits for 529 college savings plans.
Connecticut customers rush to retail stores to buy health insurance.
More than 30 cities have been scored on their open data efforts, and more will be reviewed and added in the coming months.
Americans for Prosperity enters the Iron County races over a proposed iron ore mine.
With voter ID laws a bone of contention, more attention and money is flowing to state secretary of state contests.
The political novice spent more than a decade in state prison, convicted of crimes including manslaughter and assault with intent to commit rape.
They may not have a big impact on elections this November, but that could change down the road.
The cost (out of a total $1.2 million) of state equipment designed to keep polling stations in New York open after Superstorm Sandy that was never received, disposed of properly or recovered.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who doesn't use email to contact foreign leaders, in part because he believes those communications would be monitored by the National Security Agency.
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