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Postcards, robocalls and other low-tech outreach tools can be as effective as personalized enrollment assistance at encouraging eligible people to sign up for Medicaid, a new study found.
Students at Nebraska's for-profit colleges will be protected financially if those schools suddenly close, thanks to a change adopted this year by state lawmakers.
Gov. Kay Ivey this week signed a bill preventing cities from removing most monuments 20 years and older.
The state’s cities and counties embarked on a rare kind of collaboration.
Some schools are using telemedicine to provide health care to students in underserved districts. But few think it’s a cure for their ailments.
The city is on the brink of making a speedy turnaround. Many worry that the tough financial decisions it took to get there could reverse some of its political progress.
A lot of the hard-line GOP governors who won in 2010 have surprised their supporters with a shift toward pragmatism. What’s driving the change?
States that would lose federal funding for children's health insurance under President Trump's budget, which would cut $6 billion from the program that insures kids from low-income families.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, in a speech on Wednesday at a climate conference.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
A refugee center in Twin Falls has endured many months of anti-immigrant hostility -- and emerged stronger as a result.
Detroit's former emergency manager praised Mitch Landrieu's speech on race and gave a memorable one of his own. Listen to it here.
Medicaid, children's health insurance and chronic disease programs would be first to feel the weight of the president's proposals.
Gov. Jerry Brown held up California as a leader in the fight against climate change, renewing a pledge Wednesday with representatives of the Netherlands to continue cutting carbon emissions and investing in clean technology.
On Tuesday, Gov. Eric Greitens led Missourians who'd attended his afternoon rally to lobby opponents of a bill he says will create jobs.
Gov. Phil Scott rejected a marijuana legalization bill that passed the Vermont Legislature this month, but said he was willing to work with lawmakers on a compromise.
At least eight law enforcement officers and seven inmates were injured Wednesday morning in a riot at Pelican Bay State Prison that ended when guards fired live ammunition into the crowd, state corrections officials said.
The Republican overhaul of the federal health law passed by the House this month would result in slightly lower premiums and slightly fewer uninsured Americans than an earlier proposal.
The first of a now annual report details what cities are doing well and where they could improve.
Several states are turning to private contractors to verify people’s eligibility for the program.
After an initial period of post-election anxiety, pot businesses are increasingly confident that states where they are setting up shop have their backs, despite Justice Department warnings meant to rattle marijuana enthusiasts.
Education funding has yet to bounce back from the recession in many states. But nowhere is the situation more dire than in Oklahoma.
They have unrecognized strengths for adapting to a disrupting economy.
There's a lot that state policymakers could be doing to find real solutions to education's pressing problems.
Payout from the corporation Target to 47 states and the District of Columbia to settle a lawsuit over the 2013 breach that put millions of customers' personal information into the hands of hackers.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, in defense of his decision to urge the city council to remove four Confederate monuments from the city. Hours after his speech on Friday, the last of the four was taken down.
Though an elected lawmaker in Oregon, Brian Clem has spent much of the last two years living out of a dorm room at a defunct university in this Mississippi River town trying to make millions.
New York Medicaid regulators aim to use the threat of imposing increased scrutiny of prescription drugs — such as eyeing their relative effectiveness and their profit margins — to coax additional discounts from drugmakers.
Two weeks after a federal judge blew a major hole in Missouri's new campaign finance law, another decision has been handed down that further chips away at limits on contributions even though Missouri voters approved limits last November.
Maine's high court said Tuesday that the state's first-in-the-nation ranked-choice voting system is unconstitutional, throwing the voter-approved law into jeopardy ahead of the key 2018 campaign when it was supposed to be implemented.
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