2025年1月6日 · Budgets After a period of rapid growth, overall state spending was flat last year. Heading into 2025, budgets are mostly in good shape, but there are several risk factors that should make ...

State Representative, Indiana. As a child in the town of Holly Springs, Miss., Cherrish Pryor was inspired by the political passion of her grandmother, who tirelessly worked polling stations and ...

The Housing Choice Voucher program helps 2.3 million households pay rent. Biden has called for small increases to the program, while GOP leaders are eyeing cuts that will hit some states ...

Over the past decade, Richmond, Va., has managed to cut its poverty rate by 36 percent. Many things broke right for the city, but a pair of mayors stuck with a longterm plan to make it happen.

2025年1月13日 · With Trump taking Medicare, Social Security and defense off the table, Medicaid is the biggest remaining source for potential savings. GOP members of Congress are exploring cuts that could range ...

2014年1月9日 · This is part of an ongoing series called Finance 101 that goes back to the basics to help public officials. Pensions both public and private started out as a worker’s perk – a gratuity that ...

A Florida Republican, discussing the possibility that Casey DeSantis will run to replace her husband Ron next year, when the governor is term-limited.

Fitch Ratings issued a report comparing the pension debt in each state to personal income. Connecticut had the highest ratio, at 23 percent, while Tennessee was the best at 1 percent.

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2024年12月10日 · Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California sets down the gavel she used in the House 14 years earlier when the ACA was passed, marking the anniversary at the U.S. Capitol on March 21, 2024, in Washington, D.C.