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People who qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly called food stamps, use Electronic Benefits Transfer cards to purchase food, but some people use them to turn a profit.
Drought-stricken Cambria, Calif., reduces water use dramatically, but the town is still struggling.
The bonds tap private money for public health and human services projects. Some wonder whether such “pay-for-success” contracts are useful or cost-effective.
Critics say that the zones over Disneyland and Walt Disney World, which each cover a three-mile radius, would be useless against a true terrorist attack and that the restrictions mostly harm pilots who tow advertising banners.
A recent survey of state CIOs shows how governments can modernize and run efficiently.
Chance a resident of Las Vegas has been reported to a debt-collection agency.
Former President George W. Bush, on the chances that his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, will run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Jeb is "wrestling with the decision," President Bush explained.
Payment allegedly offered by a 32-year-old man in Florida to a prostitute who was actually an undercover police officer.
The practice of civil forfeiture has come under fire in recent months, amid a spate of negative press reports and growing outrage among civil rights advocates, libertarians and members of Congress who have raised serious questions about the fairness of the practice, which critics say runs roughshod over due process rights.
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said Thursday that the state does not have the legal authority to execute the four men who remain on death row following the legislature’s decision last year to abolish capital punishment.
Few states have experienced the political volatility that Colorado has over the last two decades.
A federal judge has struck down a 2005 Arizona law that made smuggling immigrants a state crime, saying it conflicted with federal laws governing immigration.
Chastened by the conservative movement’s startling success at using national money to dominate state legislatures, liberal activists this week will ask top donors to support a plan to reverse the precipitous Democratic decline in state governments, where the party was trounced yet again on Tuesday.
Several assisted living residents in Queens received a shock recently after FEMA asked for reimbursement on aid given out following Superstorm Sandy.
Gov. Scott Walker, in an appearance Sunday morning on NBC's "Meet the Press," said a Republican governor would make an ideal presidential nominee -- and suggested he may end up getting into the race.
States have an opportunity under the health-care law to modernize their eligibility systems to cover a broad range of social services programs.
An emerging system of "variable speed federalism" is allowing federal policy to adapt to the states' political and policy diversity. But at what cost?
The key is "intrapreneurship" — establishing a public-sector culture that rewards disruption from within.
Soda tax opponent Roger Salazar, explaining why Berkeley, Calif., becoming the first to charge higher prices for sweetened beverages won't matter for the rest of the country.
The high court will once again decide fate of Obama's health care law.
A federal judge on Friday approved a plan to end Detroit's historic Chapter 9 bankruptcy, giving the Motor City an unprecedented shot at recovering from decades of economic despair and municipal mismanagement that left the city awash in debt and struggling to provide basic public services.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
New data suggests job growth for state and local governments is among the slowest of any sector.
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