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Number of school librarians for every 7,000 students in California. Budget cuts have caused many states to eliminate such positions, but California has the lowest librarian-to-student ratio in the country.
Under a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, cities and counties can't issue fines for improper "lawn maintenance" during droughts.
The city is 44 percent black, but only the overwhelming majority new hires in the police department have been white.
Gov. Rick Scott cut millions in aid to the state's disabled community, but the Florida Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act will allow the disabled to say save more of their own money.
The governor's early June veto of Senate Bill 359 caught many of the measure’s proponents off-guard. The legislation had sailed through the House and Senate with little debate and only a handful of negative votes.
A tweet from Seattle blogger David Goldstein.
The Senate president and the speaker of the House said Monday that when they reconvene, they'll wrap up what little work remains on their calendars, due to a unusual legal fight with Gov. Paul LePage, and formally end legislative work.
Reduction in lobbyists' entertainment spending on Virginia lawmakers in the last six months, compared to a six-month period before former Gov. Bob McDonnell's gifts scandal.
As the nation's largest health insurer turns 50 this month, a leading Medicaid expert tells us about the program's biggest challenges and how to overcome them.
Thomas Farr, an attorney representing North Carolina, in his opening statements of the trial on whether key provisions of the state's 2013 overhaul of voting laws passes constitutional muster.
The amount of Virginia's budget surplus less than a year after the state had a projected $2.4 billion shortfall.
Portion of the U.S. population that remains uninsured, which is the lowest since Gallup began tracking the statistic in 2008.
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State data measuring the length of unemployment shows the extent to which workers have been looking for work over the long term.
Upset that the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage last month, the Dent County Commission voted Monday to observe one year of "mourning."
The Rev. William Barber, head of the NAACP and an architect of the high-profile protest movement challenging much of the Republican agenda in North Carolina, has spent two years dogging key legislative leaders and the governor about sweeping changes to the elections law.
The state Parole Board voted in a special meeting Monday to adopt policy changes including new deadlines for parole revocation hearings and greater use of alternative sentencing.
Almost a year after Eric Garner's controversial death, New York City settled a case brought by Garner's relatives, agreeing Monday to pay $5.9 million.
Chicago Public Schools on Monday unveiled school spending plans that rely on a half-billion dollars more than the district has on hand -- an approach the head of the city's principals association compared to writing a bad check.
As a budget impasse between Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and the Republican-controlled Legislature stretches on, everyone in the state Capitol is asking this question: When will the Legislature run out of money?
A state measure would allow work permits for farm workers who are in the state illegally.
Legislation Obama has proposed to require companies without retirement plans to automatically enroll workers in IRAs has gone nowhere in Congress. So he bypassed Congress.
Soon, only two companies will make the cards that people get government benefits with. Here's why that matters.
Dave Zirin, sports editor of The Nation, quoting an economist in an episode of "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver" that criticizes the trend of paying for private sports stadiums with public funds.
The Wisconsin governor signed off on the $72.7 billion spending plan, after using his powerful veto pen to alter 104 items -- nearly twice as many as he has previously. This budget includes a $250 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
Maryland required insurers to cover in vitro fertilization, but it was generally difficult for same-sex couples to get coverage for such treatment.
An editorial in The Wisconsin Gazette, a progressive alternative newspaper, criticizing the close relationship between Gov. Scott Walker -- who announced his run for president Monday -- and conservative talk radio show hosts.
Number of valedictorians this year, which is 25 percent of the graduating class, at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va.
Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday signed a broad municipal court reform bill that will cap court revenue and impose new requirements in an attempt to end what the bill's sponsor called predatory practices aimed at the poor.
Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday vetoed the Republican-crafted bill that eliminates guaranteed public pensions for new school and state employees.
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