Hawaiʻi has a lower poverty rate than the national average but more poverty in Hawaiʻi is driven by housing costs than any other state in the nation plus Washington D.C., according to a new study.The ...
As a mother of two small children (ages 2 and 5), there’s no need to lecture Jolleen Noble of Meridian about the cost of diapers – which could run close to $200 a month per child.And there’s no need ...
The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration quietly paused determinations for disability Medicaid waivers in August to review how case managers were implementing the agency’s new interRAI ...
The U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement facility in Scarborough had been set up as an administrative facility. But more detentions are happening there this year, including overnight, often just ...
With Republicans bracing for a difficult midterm election, Texas appears to have its biggest slate of competitive races for ...
Idahoans voting in November’s general election will decide whether to give the Idaho Legislature the sole power to regulate marijuana and other drugs — and eliminate their right to bring a citizen-led ...
Running for a seventh term, Republican U.S. Rep. French Hill is focusing on what he’s done for his central Arkansas district ...
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that election officials can remove registered voters from their voter rolls using an inaccurate system called the SAVE database.If you are removed from a voter ...
Household water bills are increasing faster than inflation and income, according to a new analysis.The environmental advocacy nonprofit Food and Water Watch analyzed water bill data among the nation’s ...
As studies show improvements in access to abortion care in Ohio, abortion opponents both in and outside of the state ...
The City of Dover has spent the last year debating a measure to ban panhandling and defunding from the city’s largest homeless shelter without providing immediate alternative solutions to the ...
When Hawaiʻi elementary students are tested on division, multiplication and fractions — the fundamentals of math — about half of them score proficient on the state's standardized tests. But later in ...