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Stateline offers daily insights and reports on developments in state policy. Established in 1998, Stateline is dedicated to being nonpartisan, unbiased, and trustworthy in its journalism. Its group of reporters provides original stories along with a summary of the most recent news from various sources nationwide. In 2023, Stateline moved from its previous location at The Pew Charitable Trusts to become a part of States Newsroom.

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Long-thwarted efforts to sell public lands see new life under Trump

3 days ago | stateline.org | Alex Brown |Clark Corbin |Kyle Dunphey

Public outcry was swift and forceful after a U.S. House committee last month hastily approved an amendment directing the federal government to sell off more than half a million acres of public land. A few days later, lawmakers advanced the larger bill — a sweeping list of President Donald Trump’s priorities — but stripped the federal lands provision. Yet leaders on both sides of the issue say the battle over selling off federal lands is likely just heating up.
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ dings states that offer health care to some immigrants here legally

4 days ago | stateline.org | Tim Henderson

The Republican budget bill the U.S. House approved last month includes a surprise for the 40 states that have expanded Medicaid: penalties for providing health care to some immigrants who are here legally. Along with punishing the 14 states that use their own funds to cover immigrants who are here illegally, analysts say last-minute changes to the bill would make it all but impossible for states to continue helping some immigrants who are in the country legally, on humanitarian parole.
GOP cuts to food assistance would hit rural America especially hard

5 days ago | stateline.org | Kevin Hardy

People in Marsha Keene’s community are already struggling to cover the basics. Most of the clients Keene serves at the Susanna Wesley Family Learning Center in southeast Missouri are working but still rely on federal food assistance to keep up with ever-increasing costs. The center provides a domestic violence shelter, parenting education and summer camps to struggling families stretched thin by living expenses.
Street-level violence prevention programs have been decimated by Trump just ahead of summer

1 week ago | stateline.org | Amanda Hernandez

Community-based violence intervention programs nationwide have long worked alongside law enforcement officers to deescalate conflict, prevent retaliatory shootings and, in some cases, arrive at crime scenes before police do. In many communities, these initiatives have been credited with saving lives and reducing violence.
Glaucoma-related vision loss is often preventable, but many can’t afford treatment

1 week ago | stateline.org | Nada Hassanein

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It’s as if she’s squinting through a smoke-filled room. But it’s Charisse Brown’s eye condition, glaucoma, that diminishes her vision. Brown, 38, has worked all her adult life, with a personal policy of keeping two jobs at once. But when she started losing sight in her left eye last year, she was forced to quit her call center job. That left her with one income stream, her marketing research job, to pay her $1,300 monthly rent and other bills.
Uncertainty about federal disaster aid looms as storms roll in

1 week ago | stateline.org | Cassandra Stephenson |Phillip Powell |Lucas Dufalla |Ilan Ireland

This story first appeared on the Tennessee Lookout. CAVE CITY, Ark. — When a severe tornado tore through Cave City, Arkansas, in March, retiree Debra Lindsey was in her trailer home with her husband. “I didn’t even know there was a tornado on the ground until the sirens went off, and then in 45 seconds it was here,” Lindsey said. “It was very scary.
Homebuying options remain slim for middle-income earners

2 weeks ago | stateline.org | Tim Henderson

Read more Stateline coverage of housing policy across the country. Like many moderate-income workers, public school teachers Julia and Scott Whitnall didn’t think they’d become homeowners in their early 30s. Especially in California. “We never felt homeownership was in our cards. But we did it!” Julia Whitnall said. “We’re extremely happy.”The couple moved May 16 to a $509,000 two-bedroom house in Ripon, east of San Francisco in the Central Valley region. It wasn’t easy.
Rideshare drivers win more benefits, protections despite industry pushback

2 weeks ago | stateline.org | Madyson Fitzgerald

by Madyson Fitzgerald, Stateline May 22, 2025 Murphy Smith says he was unemployed for four years because of medical issues before becoming a rideshare driver in Eugene, Oregon. Driving allows him to work without triggering his severe asthma, Smith, 47, says. But without a set minimum wage, he says he works 12 to 16 hours a day to support himself. Smith, who’s part of the rideshare drivers advocacy group Drivers Union Oregon, hopes pending legislation will help bring drivers like him a livable wage.
As teacher burnout deepens, states scramble to fill school job vacancies

2 weeks ago | stateline.org | Robbie Sequeira

by Robbie Sequeira, Stateline May 21, 2025 As another school year ends, superintendents across the United States are staring down an autumn staffing crisis, with 1 in 8 teaching positions either vacant or filled by an underqualified educator. States that are struggling with post-pandemic teacher shortages have spent millions to lure replacements and retain veterans with hiring bonuses and bumps in salaries.
Looking to keep wildlife out of the ‘emergency room,’ states expand managers’ role

2 weeks ago | stateline.org | Alex Brown

State wildlife agencies have a big job. While the federal government protects animals listed under the Endangered Species Act, states are tasked with keeping the vast majority of other species out of the “emergency room.” Habitat loss, pollution and climate change are making that job much more difficult. At the same time, states are finding it harder to count on the hunting and fishing revenues that have long funded most of their work.