PTV, the nation's public television network, has gathered a series of articles about the proposed shift to federalism. Read more here.
The 2018 U.S. House farm bill could increase the administrative burden on states as they calculate the income of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program applicants.…
During the first session of Congress in 1789, a Federalist member proposed that the president proclaim a day of thanksgiving to acknowledge the "opportunity peaceably to…
Arkansas is the first state to implement work requirements for Medicaid, but thirteen other states are pursuing the idea. Catherine Rampell contends that the…
The National Association of State Budget Officers reports that state Medicaid spending increased by 7.3 percent in fiscal 2018 and that Medicaid represents almost…
Peter Harkness writes that local governments are struggling to address public transportation needs as federal funding for transportation projects continues to drop. Read more here.
Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle have voiced support for the resurrection of a commission similar to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental…
Peter Conti-Brown questions the legality of the Federal Reserve's recent rejection of two state-approved banking institutions. Conti-Brown contends that the Fed "is not a…
Cuts to federal funding for Affordable Care Act outreach and the removal of the tax penalty for lacking health insurance have left many states…
A New York appeals court has ruled that state law prohibits local police from arresting someone on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some…
A group of scholars has examined the intersection of preemption and federal patent law in the context of whether states can constitutionally regulate drug…
Maryland's attorney general has announced that the state will appeal a federal court order to redraw a congressional district that disadvantaged Republicans. Read more here.
Harper's has reprinted an article by Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, originally published in 1964. Brown argued that many of the nation's modern challenges required federal,…
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