So there are two kinds of government spending: mandatory and discretionary. Now mandatory spending accounts for about ...

This shutdown could last for a while, leaving states short of funds for a variety of programs. There’s no guarantee this time ...

LANSING — A budget deal announced late on Sept. 25 could prevent Michigan residents from awakening Wednesday, Oct. 1 to find both their state and federal governments simultaneously shut down for the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of state & federal policy and politics. Lawmakers in New York, California, and Illinois have been ...

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Andrea Hsu, labor and workplace correspondent at NPR, speaks at the 38th Graham Hovey Lecture at ...

The door to the Executive Office for Administration and Finance is shown on the third floor of the State House. State government officials are girding for the possibility of a federal government ...

State officials are weighing their options in response to increased demands by the federal government for access to administrative data. State agencies collect and store many datasets for many reasons ...

Pauses in federal funding could mean that Department of Education staff are at risk of being furloughed, meaning agency ...

(WHTM)– It is likely that by tomorrow, there will be no federal budget and no state budget. What does that mean for Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania is now three months behind schedule on its state budget, ...

Thanks to a slew of federal lawsuits filed by Republicans against Republicans, two states have now ended their policies that allowed undocumented students to receive in-state tuition and a grant ...