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Twenty-nine percent of children taken from their families and placed in foster care failed to receive at least one required medical checkup, the Health and Human Services Department Office of the Inspector General said in a report out today.
The cost of healthcare premiums could rise as much 779 percent if the Supreme Court erases ObamaCare subsidies in a majority of states this year, according to a new study.
After bolting to national prominence on a record of bringing public employee unions to heel and taming runaway pension costs like those that have challenged state governments across the country, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hit a very large hurdle recently.
The number of statehouse reporters has drastically declined, but journalists see reasons for optimism.
We're paying a lot of attention to gender-based violence on college campuses, but preventing it should begin in our elementary and high schools.
Many governments are embracing data analytics, both for public consumption and to guide their internal work. But there's one area that's missing out: IT departments' own operations.
They're inevitable for a host of reasons, and the blame will fall on top elected officials. Can they fix problems before they become full-blown crises?
By putting off dealing with its retirement-system underfunding problems, New Jersey has dug itself into a 'draconian' fiscal hole.
The most important customer for a city is the one that makes the biggest net contribution.
Workers are feeling the pinch the most in the South and in areas highly dependent on the tourism industry. View data for nearly 200 metro areas.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
About 61,000 Ohioans will lose their tax-funded health coverage at the end of this week.
The deployment of additional state police and Texas National Guard troops to the southern border last June has reduced illegal border crossings but cost more than $100 million and compromised the Department of Public Safety's ability to combat crimes elsewhere, according to an internal DPS assessment prepared for Gov. Greg Abbott and lawmakers.
Gov. Scott Walker told thousands of conservative activists Thursday that his experience standing up to 100,000 protesters in 2011 has prepared him to face the threat posed by Islamic State terrorists
Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich _ a lifelong high achiever who appeared poised to make a strong run to be the state's next governor _ died Thursday in St. Louis in an apparent suicide.
Nearly two dozen directors of states' largest program have resigned in the last year.
People living and working near the Western Hemisphere's first location to get gigabit-per-second Internet service should soon have access to the same speedy broadband their neighbors
The impact of oil's price drop depends on how much a local government relies on the oil industry for revenue and jobs.
That's what House Republicans, who allege that a secret plan exists to maintain health insurance subsidies, repeatedly asked the president's top health official.
The Governing Summit in Louisville, Ky., provided unique ways for participants to share ideas.
Ratio of annual opioid-painkiller prescriptions in Alabama to people in the state.
Washington, D.C., Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson, calling for an overhaul of the city's six-year plan to renovate schools. The cost of construction has increased 30 percent, limiting the number of projects the district can take on in a given year.
Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., which let marijuana become legal this week despite threats from U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) to jail city officials if they let legalization move forward.
The statistical probability of Boston having a 30-day stretch of winter like this one.
In 1881, when the gunman died, the Territory of New Mexico didn't issue death certificates.
More can be done to bring people into the civic conversation. It's good for governments, communities and our civic process.
Guroo.com shows the average local cost for many common diagnoses and medical tests in most states. That’s the real cost — not “charges” that often get marked down — based on a giant database of what insurance companies pay.
Sen. Bill Ketron's legislation would allow underage college students to taste beer they make in a brewing course. The students would be required to spit the beer out.
Alaska's law legalizing recreational marijuana use went into effect Tuesday. While the law outlines conduct surrounding personal use, what commercialization will look like is left up to the state to figure out.
The Arkansas governor has approved to require a doctor to be physically present when an abortion-inducing drug such as RU-486 is administered,
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