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The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...

Missouri pulled out of a collaboration known as the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, which helps states keep voter rolls accurate — such as flagging when people move.Fey, the ...

Between January 2018 and April 2023, ORR’s National Call Center — a 24-hour phone helpline created to advise and connect unaccompanied minors and their families with local resources during a crisis — ...

In the 20 years since then, many studies have documented how nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals are not exempt from implicit biases prevalent in America, said Adrienne Moetanalo, ...

Protecting people’s health from environmental hazards, Maricela Mares-Alatorre and her family found out the hard way, is a never-ending fight. She was in high school in the late 1980s when her parents ...

Professor Manuel Teodoro did not set out to write a book about civic engagement and democracy. He was just curious about some roadside water kiosks. In “The Profits of Distrust,” Teodoro and his ...

Reading Time: 25 minutes What happens if you don’t have the money to pay your state income tax bill?. As the Center for Public Integrity has investigated the impact of state taxes on economic ...

Undercounting and underfunding homeless students. The bill would also require a school district’s homeless liaison to inform parents and guardians about student rights and eligibility for support ...

In some blue states, meanwhile, the lack of federal progress has led to new or strengthened state versions of a voting rights act. In Michigan, that momentum was driven by citizen initiative after the ...

You can tell EPA you’d like to be looped in on those resolution efforts. You could also inquire, if you’d like, about entering an “alternative dispute resolution” process with the entity you filed the ...

In South Carolina, none of the five supreme court justices are women. It’s the only such court in the nation without a female justice. “It’s an embarrassment,” said Kaye Hearn, a former justice on the ...