Mental health and substance use disorders touch the lives of millions of Americans each year. NCSL will host a webinar on substance use and mental health disorders on Friday, July 10, and provide an overview of current state spending on behavioral health.

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The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota has announced an online graduate certificate program that will provide current election administrators tools to manage the complexities that they face, and encourage the next generation to get involved in the field.

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After decades of watching tuition continually rise faster than inflation, students in Washington and Minnesota will experience something new over the next two years: a tuition reduction.

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As you can read about in June’s issue of State Legislatures, hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking) has revealed vast amounts of oil and natural gas previously hidden within dense rock formations underground.

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Even if your state doesn’t have the death penalty, but especially if it does, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Glossip v. Gross is noteworthy.

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How would you feel if you showed up at your polling place and the poll worker couldn’t find your name on the voter roll? 

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Kentucky was the prison capitol of the world. Our prison population was growing at rate of 45 percent while the rest of the country was growing at 13 percent,” Kentucky Representative John Tilley (D)  told appropriation chairs and budget directors during NCSL's Western Fiscal Leaders meeting in Incline Village, Nev., on the north shore of Lake Tahoe.

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With U.S. the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges striking down state laws that defined marriage as being between men and women, and legalizing same-sex marriage, the focus of LGBT issues is likely to shift to sexual orientation- or gender identity-based discrimination in employment.

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Can tax cuts spur economic growth? The issue prompted some spirited discussion during NCSL’s Western States Fiscal Leaders Meeting

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As the Hispanic population in the United States increases, so does its influence on politics and policy.

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