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State Legislatures
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The National Magazine of Policy and Politics
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 StateStats: Legislators Want to Friend You
High school graduation rates are on the rise, especially among Hispanics and African-Americans. An estimated 78.2 percent of all students who were freshmen in 2006 received diplomas in 2010, a 6.5 point increase over 2001’s rate of 71.7 percent, according to a recent report by America’s Promise Alliance and other organizations. The increase is the most significant in 40 years. Hispanics showed a gain of more than 10 percentage points (61 percent to 71.4 percent), and the African-American rate improved seven percentage points (59.2 percent to 66.1 percent.)
The costs of dropping out are high—to the student, the states and the nation. Dropouts earn less, have fewer job opportunities, and are far more likely to spend their lives periodically unemployed, on government assistance, or cycling in and out of prison. State legislatures play critical roles in holding schools and districts accountable, setting expectations and raising public awareness of the problem. More
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Student documentary 'Rubber and Glass Diplomacy' recounts the birth of Nebraska’s Unicameral legislature. More
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 Find out of the location of this month's secret statehouse photo on our Then and Now page. More
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 Learn more about state film incentives and what producers know about maximizing their incentives.
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 Audio: Former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, now CEO and chairman of the motion Picture Association of America, discusses film tax incentives. More
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 Read more about state laws affecting farmers' markets. More
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 More on the state role in regulating compounding pharmacies. More
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 Iinterviews with opinion leaders. More
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Subscribers are elected and appointed officials across many levels of government. All elected and appointed officials receive State Legislatures as part of an appropriation paid by their states. All other subscriptions are paid at the rate of $49 per year.
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- State legislators: 29 percent
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- County government executives: 27 percent
- Businesses: 6 percent
- Associations: 4 percent
- Reporters: 2 percent
- Congress: 2 percent
- State executive branch officials: 1 percent
- State legislative librarians: 1 percent
- Other government officials: 1 percent
Where our subscribers live:
- 38 percent in the South
- 18 percent iin the West
- 11 percent in the Midwest and W. North Central
- 33 percent in the Northeast/Midatlantic
We Outrank the Competition
When compared with Governing magazine and State Government News, more than twice as many copies of State Legislatures magazine are read in state legislatures.
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- Governing: 13 percent
- State Government News: 7 percent
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- Governing: 11percent
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