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, ...

Reading Time: 4 minutes For decades, schools have struggled to identify and support homeless students. Investigations by the Center for Public Integrity and our reporting partners in 2022 and 2023 ...

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 — ...

As the fight over immigration reached peak chaos in the U.S. Senate earlier this month, the Congressional Budget Office held a press conference nearby. The director’s briefing about the latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

HIV is surging in the South, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designated “the epicenter” of an emerging crisis particularly affecting seven states spanning from Texas to ...

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 ...

Q: What are some examples of “non-disability” cases heard by this Supreme Court that impact people with disabilities? Tani: There are these big cases where they’re going to affect people with ...

Throughout the U.S. in 2020, the leading causes of infant mortality included low birth weight and preterm birth. A guaranteed basic income for expectant parents can address those problems and even ...