NCSL’s Transportation Program has launched a new Transportation Funding Deep Dive web page, which provides in-depth information about emerging ideas for legislators facing transportation funding shortfalls.

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While lower fuel prices are good for U.S. consumers—they have extra money to spend or save elsewhere—and oil and gas production comprises less than 2 percent of the national gross domestic product (GDP), states in which energy production is a larger portion of the local economy have acutely suffered.

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Perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court’s midterm has come and gone.

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Outside genetics, the environment has the foremost impact on a person’s health. Environmental health ensures that the natural and man-made environments are safe and do not harm human health.

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What do the 2016 Spring Webinar Series and tulips have in common? They are both blooming in April!

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NCSL’s Children and Families program covers many issues typically grouped under the human services umbrella, including child support and family law, child welfare, early care and education, home visiting, hunger and nutrition, and welfare and poverty.

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In this month’s cover story, “Overdosed on Opioids,”  State Legislatures magazine examines the state-level impact of the opioid epidemic, which now kills more people annually than motor vehicle crashes.

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The Bernie Sanders campaign has credited younger voters as a key to the 74-year-old Vermont senator’s success in the Democratic primary race to date. But as the campaign has seen, sometimes young voters still just don’t turn out to vote, no matter how motivated they may be.

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On a windy Tuesday morning in March five NCSL staffers traveled to Molholm Elementary School in the Denver suburb of Lakewood to meet with Elena Bodrova and Deborah Leong and view a few prekindergarten and kindergarten, classrooms currently utilizing the Tools of the Mind curriculum.

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The work of federal negotiators determining federal parameters for state implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) kicks into high gear today.

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