A new report finds Rhode Island is one of the nation's higher spending and higher taxed states. The state ranks in the top ten for K-12 education and public safety spending per capita. Rhode Island's ...

House Republicans seeking to thread the needle in Medicaid spending cuts are eyeing “per capita caps,” which would throttle federal funding without technically changing benefits. The key Republicans ...

This story was updated with new information. Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at reforming and overhauling the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He had ...

States around the country, hooked on billions of federal dollars that flooded in during COVID, don't want the party to end.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — In the 2023 federal fiscal year, New York made back $1.04 in federal spending for every dollar it paid in federal taxes, a positive balance. During the prior fiscal year, the ...

This chart shows the average expected per-capita spending on selected U.S. holiday/seasonal events in 2025 (in U.S. dollars), ...