State and local government employees report high levels of job satisfaction across the country, but face significant rates of burnout and on-the-job harassment. That’s according to a new national survey of nearly 5,000 public servants across all 50 states released today by The People Lab at Harvard University’s Kennedy School.
Women giving birth in rural communities were more likely than peers in urban areas to receive oral opioid prescriptions for pain upon leaving the hospital after a cesarean section, according to a new analysis of data from half a million C-sections.
Black community leaders and lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly Tuesday said voting rights are under attack across the nation, including in North Carolina, after the U.S. Supreme Court significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act in an April ruling this year.
We explore an array of bills being advanced by GOP lawmakers that would impact everything from alcohol sales to tax policy and the state constitution in a two-part chat with NC Newsline government and politics reporter Brandon Kingdollar.
The House Finance Committee gave its approval to a bill to close an affordable property tax loophole for affordable housing.
This summer, arrests of immigrants in the United States soared to the highest levels since President Donald Trump returned to office. An unprecedented increase in cooperation between local and state law enforcement and federal immigration officers through collaborations known as 287(g) agreements helped drive numbers up.
NC Sen. Bobby Hanig, R-Currituck, resigned Monday. He was not running for reelection. He opposed Senate GOP leaders on key district issues.
The Trump administration has argued that TPS has become a “de facto asylum program” and that conditions in Haiti have improved enough to end the designation. It appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court in March, and the justices heard oral arguments on an emergency basis.
More than 2,600 people sued Chemours and DuPont over PFAS contamination. After eight years, the trial won’t move forward.
NC school finance officials told a state commission that funding restrictions and late budgets make planning harder for school districts.