State legislative sessions around the country are coming to a close, and fights over public versus charter school funding and ...

Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin took a trip to Minneapolis and spoke to the city's mayor Jacob ...

Across Illinois, about 70% of days spent in nursing home care are covered by Medicaid, making it the largest insurance payer ...

Some Illinois long-term care providers are calling a proposal by fellow providers to introduce a nursing home bed tax “misguided.

In addition to cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, a massive bill passed by the House on Thursday would also prohibit the health insurance program from covering gender-affirming ...

Hundreds of Illinois residents rallied at the state's capitol to call on lawmakers to pass the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act and other clean energy bills by the end of the month.

A federal judge has extended her freeze on President Donald Trump’s plan for mass layoffs and reorganizations at 22 federal ...

A sweeping Farm Bill that includes $300 billion in cuts to food assistance programs has cleared the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture.

Revenue projections had already been declining as the spring session has progressed. Now, lawmakers who have long feared ...

Minnesota’s tax on recreational cannabis products could go up before the state’s marijuana market fully launches in the next ...

Negotiators and transit officials are naming several possible sources: as much as $200 million, they hope, from the state’s ...

A Massachusetts-based federal judge on Thursday blocked the president’s 2-month-old executive order slashing the U.S.