By empowering them to bargain and providing other protections, policymakers can address frustration over flat wages and ...

Fremont is set to pass an anti-encampment ordinance. Its broad language could penalize nonprofit groups that provide services to homeless populations.

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has proposed a new refundable child tax credit and increases in child care and children’s health funding, along with full funding for public schools.

Red states are in sync with the Trump administration’s efforts, but some Democratic governors are reminding districts to protect immigrants’ legal rights.

State and local public health departments rely on federal funding to operate. With those dollars at risk amid the Trump administration’s federal funding freezes, they’re bracing for the future.

Pregnant women who are incarcerated will move into the facility next week. For now, only women with 18 months or less to ...

A combined federal and state effort to redesign the boondoggle-prone economic development program could also provide the ...

Gloria Sachdev has spent years taking on the health-care establishment in Indiana, working to pull down high hospital prices ...

Understaffed police departments and concerns over public safety are spurring greater use of private security guards. But they aren't a perfect substitute.

For years, states strictly limited the amount of time people could be institutionalized. With homelessness rising, some policymakers want to do more.

President Trump, who calls FEMA “not good,” has issued an executive order and established a commission to look at ending the agency. He favors having states respond to their own disasters, but they ...

After a two-year investigation into a sprawling donor network, the Fair Political Practices Commission found it did not ...