Policy

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State Budgets Confront the Long Shadow of Federal Retrenchment

As Washington pulls back from grants and shared funding streams that states had built into their plans, governors and legislatures are confronting choices that had been deferred for years.

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State Capacity Becomes The New American Political Fault Line

Whether American government can actually execute the things it commits to has become a question that cuts across the traditional left-right axis in ways the political class is slowly absorbing.

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State Energy Policies Diverge as the Grid Tries to Keep Up

Rising electricity demand from data centers and industrial reshoring is forcing states into divergent strategies that the interconnected grid will eventually have to reconcile.

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American Housing Market Confronts a Structural Affordability Shift

Persistent gaps between household incomes and housing costs are no longer cyclical anomalies but structural features that policymakers are slowly being forced to address.

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Community Colleges Reposition Around Workforce Training Demand

Two-year institutions are increasingly orienting their programs toward employer demand, reshaping their role in the education landscape and their relationship with local labor markets.

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Municipal Water Infrastructure Financing Strains Against Deferred Maintenance

Aging pipes and treatment plants are colliding with constrained municipal budgets, forcing local governments to confront maintenance bills accumulated over decades.

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Federal Workforce Restructuring Tests Agency Continuity Planning

Departments absorbing staffing changes are leaning more heavily on contractors and cross-detail arrangements, raising questions about institutional knowledge retention.

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State Housing Policies Diverge as Affordability Pressures Mount

Statehouses are taking sharply different routes on zoning, rent stabilization, and construction incentives, producing a patchwork that increasingly shapes where Americans can afford to live.

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State-Level Zoning Reforms Test the Limits of Housing Supply Policy

States are preempting local zoning rules to expand housing supply, but the gap between legal authorization and actual construction has proven larger than expected.

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AI Industry Claims Vindication as House Panel Kills Moratorium

Hours after the House Ways and Means Committee voted 24-21 to bury the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI moratorium, the largest U.S. tech companies took rare public victory laps, even as executives conceded the energy fight was only beginning.

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