Gov. Kathy Hochul held a press conference on Wednesday in Albany detailing several proposals from her upcoming 2026 State of the State.

Americans pay their state governments more than a trillion dollars in taxes annually and trust them to handle issues as important as education and health care, yet citizens know very little about ...

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From wildfire detection to unemployment benefits, AI is shaping decisions in state government. Now, at least 13 states are creating inventories or repositories to track which agencies are using the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. When America was founded, states were viewed as the most ...

Mapping state government efficiency initiatives is a complex challenge. Nearly half of states have recently created efficiency groups, had legislation proposed to make one, or were already well into ...

As the American economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, declines in employment in state and local governments threaten the delivery of crucial services and the economic security of workers, ...

Gregory Holt, an inmate at the Arkansas Department of Corrections, wants to grow his beard as a practicing Salafi Muslim. But Arkansas Corrections restricts beard length to a quarter of an inch. In ...

Your Social Security number, driver's license photo and other data will be accessible to Homeland Security under new Iowa agreement with the agency.

The northern end of downtown Raleigh will see significant changes in the near future, starting with the opening of Freedom Park. Thousands of state employees will move offices in the next few years, ...