States are beginning to connect the dots between necessary spending and needless spending. As they work to come up with sustainable budgets the status quo is no longer affordable. More...

Gas is getting pretty expensive. These days having “five” on it doesn’t guarantee anyone a ride anywhere. More...

As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Cass prepared the recent Children’s Defense Fund's report "Held Captive: Child Poverty in America,” she traveled to the Mississippi Delta, the ravaged cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge in Lou More...