The WalletHub study used 12 key metrics to rank each state and Washington D.C., including student/teacher ratios, test scores, drop out rates, bullying incidents and the percentage of population with at least a Bachelor’s Degree.

What occurred when he and his partner sold their interests in the Wolf Organization Inc. and he later bought it back? Because reports had mentioned that employees had been buyers, we assumed that the transaction had been an ESOP *, acronym for Employee Stock Ownership Plan? We have known the price for such transactions at times to have been bloated.

If there is doubt on who really does care, it isn’t the senators and congressmen who spent months lambasting the VA and Secretary Shinseki — but waited until the final days before their August recess to pass any reform legislation…

At least half of college students’ sexual assaults are associated with alcohol use. In one study, 74% of perpetrators and 55% of rape victims had been drinking…

Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, the former attorney general whose prosecutions drew a strict line between campaign and government activities, met with top campaign advisers in the governor’s office on numerous occasions since taking office in January 2011, state records show.

As a former public defender in Philadelphia, [Northampton County Prosecutor Tatum] Wilson said, she tried a marijuana delivery case in which the jury came back with a not-guilty verdict. Talking to jurors afterward, they were “incensed” that authorities had pursued the charges, Wilson said.

In theory, this is a reasonable way to control costs by making it harder to prescribe costlier medications. In practice, it is a wasteful administrative nightmare, a cavalcade of recurring paperwork, lengthy phone calls and bureaucratic battles.

Mr. Wolf has said the tax needs to be restructured so that the wealthier pay more and middle-income and lower-income taxpayers pay less. It’s part of an overall strategy to boost state financial support for public schools.

The new state-mandated minimum wage — for adults only — would reflect what a worker earns to be ineligible for subsidies and benefits. Corporate executives and shareholders can no longer take advantage of government benefits to low-income people to amass their wealth.

The increasing number of mentally ill prisoners in prisons and jails across the country — in 2013, mentally ill prisoners made up just over 28 percent of California’s prison population — has raised questions about their treatment in corrections systems poorly equipped to deal with psychiatric symptoms.

“Incrementalism” is, in Becker’s view, a trap, a detour, a diversion. Drug prohibition, with all its horrors, has gone on more than long enough, and half-measures like drug decriminalization are not sufficient to end the evil. It is time to quit screwing around and end the drug war, he writes.