“Bias is easy to attribute to others and difficult to discern in oneself.” Sage words from Justice Anthony Kennedy and certainly pplicable outside the confines of the U.S. Supreme Court’s final opinion of the term involving the death penalty.

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Molly Kershaw, secretary of the Illinois Senate's office, fulfilled a lifelong dream by qualifying for a spot on "Wheel of Fortune." Molly, who walked away with $17,100 and a weeklong trip to Cancun with her husband, Adam, shared her experience of being on the show, which aired in March, with NCSL.

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Several high-quality studies have documented the cost-effectiveness of the Nurse-Family Partnership, a nurse home-visiting program for low-income, first-time mothers.

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Policymakers are faced with claims like “child safety seats are a great investment to save states money.” How does a legislator assess whether this is really a cost-effective investment?

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No sooner had the ink dried on Virginia’s latest redistricting Supreme Court case, Wittman v. Personhuballah (2016), than the Court has agreed to hear another redistricting challenge from the Commonwealth.

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Yesterday, South Carolina enacted a new law (S.B. 916) to raise the age of juvenile court jurisdiction from 16 to 17.

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In Moore v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court will review a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decision to apply a previous definition of “intellectually disabled” adopted in a 1992 death penalty case rather than the current definition.

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When South Carolina’s Governor Nikki Haley announced a $30 million expansion of the state’s home-visiting program in February 2016, what convinced her this was a good investment?

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Did you know that 3- and 4-year-olds who come from homes where a language other than English is spoken make up 23 percent of the overall 3- and 4-year-old population nationally?

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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, welfare and poverty.

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