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View the size of the postal service workforce in each state.
As agencies revamp their criteria, seemingly conflicting actions have some scratching their heads.
Oregon shines on Medicaid, as Texas Stalls on sign-ups
Public-sector workers typically face a greater risk of suffering an injury on the job than other segments of the workforce. Read five key takeaways from new industry-level data.
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About 30 states are now insist on 3rd grade reading proficiency.
Citing a recent increase in dog bites, elected officials are considering an interactive online map of the county's dangerous and vicious canines.
Amount in additional tax credits available to 3,000 childless New York City residents making between $6,667 and $18,000 a year under the city's Paycheck Plus poverty-reduction pilot project.
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California, on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd.”
The Tennessee Valley Authority sharply accelerated a shift away from coal as an energy source on Thursday, saying it would shut down eight electricity-generating units that together will burn nearly a fifth of its coal this year.
Under the program, students at the state's public colleges and universities would not pay tuition while attending school in exchange for a percentage of their future incomes for a set number of years.
When the new Common Core educational standards were crafted, penmanship classes were dropped. But at least seven of the 45 states that adopted the standards are fighting to restore the cursive instruction.
Responding to the troubled rollout of Obamacare, Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he would delay for three months his plan to move more than 70,000 state residents out of state health coverage and into an online federal insurance market.
More than 9,000 students are attending select, high-poverty schools in Connecticut, Colorado, Massachusetts and New York that have developed expanded school schedules as part of the TIME Collaborative, or Time for Innovation Matters in Education
The botched rollout of the Department of Public Welfare's effort to consolidate payroll services for home health-care workers for the disabled led to thousands of those employees going unpaid for as long as four months this year and cost taxpayers millions in extra care costs, according to a new audit.
The new facility, which is being built less than 20 years after the current one, will cost Cobb County, Ga., $300 million.
It's unusual for a city to create its own tax credit, but New York has launched a pilot project that supplements the federal Earned Income Tax Credit to help lift low-income, single adult workers with no children out of poverty.
The bipartisan group of lawmakers say the legislation, which provides a new way to pay for infrastructure projects, would allow states and localities to build quicker.
Average annual cost of transportation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, compared to an average $10,359 a year for housing.
Washington state political pollster Stuart Elway, on the likely election of Marxist economist Kshama Sawant to the Seattle City Council.
Frustrated visitors to Healthcare.gov might be lured back this week by emails asking them to try again now that certain fixes are in reportedly in place.
States increasingly are partnering with private companies to build and maintain highways, prisons, water facilities, tunnels and even hospitals and schools.
South Carolina is the first state to stop reimbursing Medicaid and privately insured patients for medically unnecessary birth deliveries – a move that’s saving the state millions and improving health outcomes.
The annual cost getting around Minneapolis–Saint Paul may soon exceed rent.
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States and educators prepare for Common Core standards
They've grown more popular over the past two years, but should the private sector invest?
The Department of Children’s Services will now post on its website documents relating to its internal investigations into the deaths and near deaths of children.
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