Fragmented, vague legislation creates unnecessary risk and uncertainty about how platforms and users can operate without ...

State lawmakers should act to make clear that online platforms are not supplements to aid in the administration of overly ...

With most public pension systems, including Pennsylvania’s retirement funds for public schools, government workers and public safety employees, still billions underfunded, state policymakers need to ...

On any given day, approximately 514,000 people are held in local jails across the United States. Though defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty, more than 80% of the jail population are ...

After years of unfunded liability accrual and growing legislative solvency concerns, the Mississippi Legislature passed a major pension reform bill to provide a new “hybrid” retirement plan for future ...

Voters in Arkansas are being asked to approve a constitutional amendment that would authorize powerful and unaccountable economic development districts and vaguely defined corporate subsidy programs, ...

The first public school teacher pension plan in the United States was established 125 years ago in New York. While that initial system went bankrupt 21 years after its founding, the debate over the ...

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released provisional data for 2025, showing that the nation’s nearly two-decade baby bust continued, with U.S. fertility rates ...

Florida Amendment 3 proposes a constitutional amendment that would protect the right of adults aged 21 and older to possess up to three ounces of marijuana, including up to five grams of marijuana ...

Before 2020, much of U.S. transit planning, especially in metropolitan areas with long-established rail networks, was built around the weekday commute. Heavy rail, light-rail and downtown-oriented ...

Before a person can get a job, rent an apartment, or open a bank account, they typically need to obtain one or more forms of identification. However, many people are released from prison without a ...

In the second half of the 20th century, the world’s airports and air traffic control systems were essentially all departments of governments. Two events in 1987 launched an ongoing wave of ...