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Proposals hailed as giving Devon more say in its own affairs but others claim it could be ‘another level of bureaucracy’

The usual Trumpian chaos prevails in Washington ...

Resources are available to help counties make decisions about evidence-based responses to opioid crisis.

People might not be dashing through the snow but they are having to dash through busy parking lots and stores as the end of the holiday season countdown nears.

For a century or more, the redistribution of economic resources has been a major, if implicit, function of modern government.

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This paper examines the distribution of government, benefits, services and taxes by income class.

President Joe Biden celebrated the latest jobs figures, despite U.S. job growth in September being the slowest so far this year. Biden is also facing pressure from rising gas prices, but a solution might conflict with his environmental agenda.

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Seagull flying over fence with barbwire mesh at sunset Lisa Valder Overview Historically, the roughly 3,000 local jails operating in the United States have received less public and policymaker attention than prisons. 1 But now, the COVID-19 pandemic has put jails—secure correctional facilities, generally operated by county or municipal governments, where people are detained before trial or confined post-conviction for periods usually lasting less than a year—under additional scrutiny. 2 Jai...