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Federal government
What the past can teach us about a post-Chevron America
Jul 12, 2024
The Supreme Court's decision overturning the Chevron deference is a step towards rolling back the power of the administrative state, the origins of which go back more than a century.
Gathering data on Native people is tricky. New federal rules won't help.
Jul 5, 2024
The changes will impact the way American Indians and Alaska Natives show up in federal data, and could further obscure our understanding of economic conditions for Native people in this country.
The shrinking federal government — in D.C.
Mar 15, 2024
For years, there have been more federal workers based outside the nation’s capital than in it. That trend picked up during the pandemic.
Even a government non-shutdown comes with serious costs
Jan 19, 2024
Federal workers still have to prepare for a potential shutdown weeks in advance in addition to (or instead of) their regular duties. Waiting for a budget also has another price: the erosion of the public's trust in government.
Is there a better way to describe what we call a "government shutdown"?
Sep 25, 2023
The term is a bit misleading: Some government programs keep running even if their workers go unpaid. We asked experts for alternative terms.
As another government shutdown looms, government jobs lose their luster
Sep 18, 2023
Workers have been paid after past shutdowns, albeit late. But there's no guarantee they will after any future shutdown.
U.S. officials want to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. Many stakeholders think they won’t.
by
Sam Whitehead
and Daniel Chang
Apr 20, 2023
The federal government’s ambitious plan to end the HIV epidemic, launched in 2019, has generated new ways to reach at-risk populations in targeted communities across the South. But health officials, advocates, and people living with HIV worry significant headwinds will keep the program from reaching its goals.
For public good, not for profit.
Immigrants' taxes play an outsized role in the U.S. government's fiscal health
Apr 11, 2023
Immigrant contributions to government revenues are higher than they may first appear.
How a “divorce” between the Treasury and Fed helped build the modern economy
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Maria Hollenhorst
Dec 13, 2022
In the 1950s, the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve reached an agreement that helped create the economy we have today.
When governments fail to address community issues, who steps in?
Jul 6, 2022
In an excerpt from "The Fight to Save the Town," the author describes how residents get by in an Oregon county with a declining government.