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With most state-run social service programs, such as Medicaid and food stamps, funded by the feds, who decides whether gay couples will receive those benefits?
The president's proposal would reduce the top corporate tax rate, eliminate loopholes and use the one-time revenue to pay for roads, transit and other transportation systems.
In California, Nevada, Florida and the District of Columbia, companies are allowed to test their self-driving vehicles on private roads, then public roads. But legislation is just the beginning.
Prison reforms may result in better conditions for inmates, but those improvements come at the expense of welfare cash assistance and other government relief for the needy, according to a study released this month by Rice University and Louisiana State University.
What Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he's going to say to his peers when he hosts the National Governors Association conference in Milwaukee this weekend.
Hoping it will push U.S. lawmakers to develop a long-term transportation funding plan, infrastructure advocates developed a smartphone app that allows users to complain to members of Congress about their travel troubles.
The portion of people in Mississippi using food stamps in April, which was the highest of any other state. View charts and updated data for every state.
Massachusetts becomes the 15th state to have an active agreement of this type with the Department of Agriculture.
A study has found that a controversial program that orders patients with severe mental illness to receive treatment when they are not hospitalized has had positive results.
Gloria Steinem, Jesse Jackson, Bonnie Raitt and Jay Leno have joined prison hunger strikers in calling for an end to California's use of solitary confinement to control prison gang violence.
The power of eminent domain has traditionally worked against homeowners, who can be forced to sell their property to make way for a new highway or shopping mall. But now the working-class city of Richmond, Calif., hopes to use the same legal tool to help people stay right where they are.
"This is probably the most unique and novel way I've seen of talking about a longer time frame," says Peter Ruggiero, a coastal engineering scientist at Oregon State University. He says it's "useful," because most analyses look only at this century, and "the world doesn't end in 2100."
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday signed into law a measure directing state officials to regulate abortion clinics based on the same standards as those for outpatient surgical centers, a change that critics say will force most to close.
The 15-year struggle to legalize medical marijuana in the District ended like this: A 51-year-old Northwest resident entered a North Capitol Street rowhouse Monday evening and emerged 90 minutes later with slightly less than a half-ounce of street-legal, high-grade, D.C.-grown cannabis.
Anthony Weiner has dropped to fourth place among Democrats seeking to be New York City mayor after admitting he continued to exchange sexually explicit online messages and photos following his 2011 resignation from Congress, with 53% of likely voters saying he should withdraw from the race, a poll released Monday showed.
While the economy recovers, SNAP participation hasn't yet fallen. View charts and updated data for each state.
With federal support for social service programs dwindling, cities are looking for new ways to combat poverty.
Steven Hernandez, an attorney for the state of Connecticut, which recently passed a law to formalize a state-sponsored system for training social workers and dogs to help traumatized children. After last year's mass school shooting in Newtown, state officials found dogs to be helpful therapeutic aids for counseling the surviving children.
The ratio of Americans who for at least a year of their lives have struggled with joblessness, relied on government aid or had income below 150 percent of the poverty line, according to a recent survey.
At least four school districts have hired chief innovation officers at the district level since 2011, while Newark Public Schools has this position in a number of its schools.
A state law takes effect Thursday that will provide consumer protections for precious metals buyers and, effective next July, give the Minnesota Department of Commerce oversight over dealers and their employees.
A doctor who filed an affidavit in support of Wisconsin's new abortion regulations provided a federal court with inaccurate information on how difficult it would be for doctors who perform abortions to obtain the hospital admitting privileges required by the law.
Of all the obstacles standing between the Republican Party and the White House, preventing heavily Latino, trending-blue Western states from settling comfortably into the Democratic column is high on the list.
Experts differ on the motivating factors behind the soaring numbers.
Financial incentives are offered in Indiana, Idaho, Minnesota, South Dakota and Utah to students who complete high school in fewer than four years, lowering districts' instructional costs. Although exact figures remain elusive, the creation of these programs suggests their popularity may be growing among students, said Jennifer Dounay Zinth, a senior policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States.
California has a reputation for having some of the nation's most aggressive rules on workplace safety, consumer protection and environmental quality. Now some impacted companies are fighting back, and officials in Sacramento worry that some of the state's landmark laws may be in danger.
Tennessee Rep. Lois DeBerry, one of the longest-serving women lawmakers in the nation and a powerful influence in state politics, died Sunday after a nearly five-year bout with pancreatic cancer. She was 68.
Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.
After months of gathering signatures and skirmishing in court, gun activists in Colorado, with the support of the National Rifle Association, have forced Democratic senators John Morse and Angela Giron into recall elections.
The move suggests that even as Anthony Weiner vows to press ahead with his candidacy, there are mounting doubts about its political viability within his own campaign.
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