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The average hourly wage for disabled people working in Rhode Island’s sheltered workshops, which are funded largely through Medicaid as “prevocational training.”
Larry Sabato, professor of government at the University of Virginia.
Amount of contaminated sediment, in cubic yards, that General Electric expects to finish removing from the bottom of the Hudson River. That's enough to fill the Empire State building -- twice.
The rules for a city’s return to solvency are no longer being crafted by lawmakers.
What may seem like a great way to engage citizens may not be as effective as cities would like.
Foundations are important, but they have their limits.
A new report lays out why so many Americans are renting even though rents are rising nearly everywhere.
The bill, which takes effect July 1, prohibits the sale, purchase, possession or consumption of cigarettes, other tobacco products and e-cigarettes to anyone under the age of 21.
Earl Holt, who heads the Missouri-based Council of Conservative Citizens, has given to dozens of Republican candidates and causes across the country, according to federal records. In Texas, he has spread around several thousand dollars over the past four years.
Legislature overrides Gov. Paul LePage's veto to pass a law allowing growers to purchase hemp seeds from any certified seed source.
As the Louisiana governor prepares to make his presidential run official on Wednesday, he's struggling to find support at home and nationally.
Maine legislators overwhelmingly affirmed on Monday that they would not pass a law to legalize, tax and regulate recreational use of marijuana.
Aetna, State Farm, and Assurant Health have all decided to stop offering individual health insurance plans in Alaska. Now more than 5,000 Alaskans have to find new health care coverage.
The Wisconsin governor's budget removes tenure protection from state law -- leaving it in the hands of a board of regents largely appointed by the governor.
Striking down one of the last New Deal-era farm programs, the Supreme Court sided Monday with a California raisin grower in his decade-long legal battle over a federal raisin board's seizure of his crop to reduce supply and prop up prices.
When Newark superintendent Cami Anderson last week led a teacher-training session on special education, she gave no clue that it would be one of her last days on the job.
The new academic standards known as the Common Core emphasize critical thinking, complex problem-solving and writing skills, and put less stock in rote learning and memorization.
Saying lawmakers defied the state constitution, three environmental groups sued the Florida Legislature Monday, claiming they ignored an amendment overwhelmingly approved by voters in November to conserve the state's disappearing wilderness and protect its water supplies.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, calling for legislators to remove the Confederate flag from the State House. A nationwide push for removing the flag started last week after nine people were killed by a 21-year-old white supremacist in a church.
Gov. Nikki Haley called Monday for legislators to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State House.
Boyd Rutherford was shocked when he got a call more than a year ago from a little-known Republican businessman who was mounting an improbable campaign for governor.
Kanchan Sigh, owner of Crumbs and Whiskers, Washington, D.C.'s first "cat cafe," where patrons pay to pet cats by the hour.
As the amount of data that governments accumulate grows, so does the need to disaggregate it.
Unlike other rapidly growing cities, Miami doesn’t regulate building heights.
Much of what used to happen only in the biggest metropolises is spreading out.
Former Democratic Congressman Artur Davis is hoping to beat the odds in his hometown.
As public education becomes less public, what new economic model will emerge?
They may have had their negatives, but unlike Congress today -- and to some degree, the states -- they got the job done.
Many people think the work of human services agencies creates dependency and exacerbates poverty. But there’s a new effort to recast them in a more favorable light.
Indiana is the latest state to find out what happens when districts aren’t required to offer students free transportation to and from school.
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