High levels of financial literacy continue to elude many Americans, according to the 2022 TIAA Institute-GFLEC Personal Finance Index. On average, U.S. adults correctly answered only 50% of the index questions in 2022, a level unchanged since the...

With March Madness approaching, sports betting opportunities are more plentiful than ever. Thirty-three states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico now allow it.

Although they are a drop in the bucket compared with broad-based taxes, cannabis tax revenues are still significant, even exceeding cigarette and alcohol tax collections in many states. In 2019, marijuana tax revenues represented about 0.36% of...

The sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and NATO allies—and the threat of more—will likely have ramifications for some U.S. states in particular and for the economy in general, some economists say.

“The dual banking system has been an extraordinary success in the United States, providing the country a strong and resilient banking system,” says Kentucky Rep. Adam Koenig (R), who serves on the House Banking and Insurance...

Unprecedented. Uncertain. Historic. Those words apply to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state budgets it disrupted—and the subsequent massive infusion of federal stimulus.