Here's how ACA marketplaces work, why enrollment has grown recently and what's at the heart of the US government shutdown.

For months now, researchers and journalists have been documenting the disappearance of federal health data and monitoring changes to government websites. Now, a new analysis finds that some of the ...

2014 study from Princeton University and the World Bank showing how rising inequality was linked with increased rates of violent crime in Mexico. The study’s authors — Ted Enamorado of Princeton ...

Three data experts explain the critical consequences of the manipulation and removal of federal data in recent months.

U.S. citizens ages 18 and older who are registered to vote can cast ballots in local, state and federal elections. But states, which conduct and administer many elections, including federal elections, ...

School board elections have grown increasingly politicized in recent years as conservative politicians and advocacy organizations push to restrict how public schools address issues related to race, ...

When states take on debt, it’s usually for large infrastructure projects that may benefit multiple generations — for example, replacing bridges, building hospitals, or expanding highways and transit ...

In June 2023, Nevada legislators approved $380 million in public funding for a 30,000-seat ballpark for the Oakland A’s, who are expected to throw their first pitch in Las Vegas in 2028 after Major ...

Recent research in the Quarterly Journal of Economics offers previously unseen levels of detail unraveling the relationship between labor unions and income inequality in the U.S. The study, “Unions ...

With rising rents and financial strife from the COVID-19 pandemic rippling through U.S. cities, some municipalities are turning to rent regulation as a policy to help tenants stay in their homes.

Health misinformation is not a new phenomenon, but modern-day factors such as social media, in addition to politicization of health and science and the fast pace of scientific development during the ...

“Racially conservative” attitudes were the primary reason white Southerners abandoned the Democratic Party after party leaders began to advocate for civil rights legislation during the last half of ...