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Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday that he would back legislation to require private employers in New York City to offer at least two weeks of paid vacation annually to their workers, a law he said would be the first of its kind in the nation.
Trump's threat alarmed California officeholders. Politicians from both parties criticized the tweet, though Republicans stopped short of condemning the author and expressed sympathy with his complaints about the state's Democratic governance.
Transportation officials in Oklahoma this week announced plans to delay bids on 45 highway projects worth about $137 million.
The volume of openings first topped the number of jobless people in Midwestern states in early 2017. But in recent months that phenomenon has spread to other regions, particularly the South.
Even as calls for “Medicare for All” grow louder among Democrats in Washington, D.C., at least 10 states are exploring whether to allow residents to pay premiums to “buy in” to Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor.
With signs pointing to a weakening economy, we need to get ready now, and we need to do it right.
As new leaders from the private sector take over state agencies, they are going to find that their new jobs require a unique dual competence.
Measures of school segregation between black and white students.
How levels of school segregation in Illinois metro areas compare to others.
Kristen Marshall, who runs a drug testing program for the Harm Reduction Coalition, conveying the thinking of someone who intentionally uses fentanyl, which is responsible for many deadly opioid overdoses.
Last day for states to request emergency food stamps funding from the federal government. The Trump administration announced that it can fund the program through February, if the government shutdown continues that long, but the money has to be distributed within 30 days of the shutdown's start.
Bipartisan support for reducing recidivism is driving most states to relax or lift the federal ban on drug felons receiving food stamps or cash assistance. Pennsylvania went the other way.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the so-called Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program would receive funding for February thanks to a legal provision that allows money to be allocated within 30 days of a shutdown.
The legislation, which Gov. Phil Murphy signed Tuesday at a yeshiva in Passaic, adds $11.3 million for security at nonpublic schools 2019-- doubling their level of state security funding from $75 to $150 per student.
The National Science Foundation next year plans to remove more than 150 seismic sensors it installed in Alaska in recent years, closing out a $50 million project that vastly improved the state's limited seismic network, said Mike West, state seismologist.
The goal is to issue at least 30 awards of up to $20,000 each year of the program, which will be funded at $600,000 annually.
The ban "will protect LGBTQ+ youth from dangerous and discredited practices aimed at changing their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression," a city news release says.
The program, dubbed NYC Care, is aimed at providing either insurance or health services to the 600,000 New Yorkers who are uninsured, 300,000 of whom are undocumented immigrants who cannot be insured.
Counting prisoners as residents of their hometowns would, for the most part, boost the legislative representation of Democratic-leaning urban areas with large minority populations while diminishing the power of Republican, mostly white rural areas.
Medicaid health plans are starting to pay for non-traditional services such as meals, transportation, housing and other forms of assistance to improve members’ health and reduce medical costs.
Federal regulations neither require schools to test their water nor have a single health standard for drinking water. The resulting patchwork of state policies can have a big impact on how -- and whether -- they respond to lead found in water.
Scott Dozier, a death-row inmate in Nevada, a few months before he was found hanging in his cell over the weekend. His execution requests were repeatedly blocked, most recently by a lawsuit from the drug manufacturer whose products would have been used to kill him.
Average monthly rate of teachers and other public education employees quitting their job in the first 10 months of 2018, which is the highest rate on record.
Segregation statistics for downstate Illinois metro areas.
Retiree health care is one of the fastest-growing line items in government budgets and, in response, some governments are scrapping their traditional health plans.
New Jersey’s minimum wage is at $8.85 an hour, barely changed from when Phil Murphy was elected.
It was the second time a man was found dead at Ed Buck's apartment. Buck is a longtime political donor, a one-time West Hollywood City Council candidate and a well-known figure in LGBTQ political circles.
At issue is whether United Teachers Los Angeles -- in setting the strike for Thursday -- gave the Los Angeles Unified School District a legally required 10-day notice that its members would stop working under the existing contract.
Scott Dozier, the convicted murderer who had all but begged Nevada authorities to execute him for years, was found dead in his death row cell over the weekend, authorities said.
Katie Brennan is seeking damages and emergency relief that bars the state from enforcing a confidentiality order against her as part of a new investigation into her statements that she has felt professional backlash since going public with her rape allegation.
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