The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Listen to the Toxic Labor investigation. Read the transcript of the audio. Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the ...

Sixteen-year-old Horlandina Lopez-Perez left her aunt’s home in the middle of the night on Oct. 1, 2022, with her four-month-old son and a few baby clothes. Alexander Perez-Méndez, 17, thanked his ...

Undercounting and underfunding homeless students The bill would also require a school district’s homeless liaison to inform parents and guardians about student rights and eligibility for support ...

HIV is surging in the South, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designated “the epicenter” of an emerging crisis particularly affecting seven states spanning from Texas to ...

Parallels to present voting conflicts In recent years, debates over the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — an effort to reinvigorate the Voting Rights Act — have carried echoes of the backlash ...

Reading Time: 3 minutes While restoration of the federal Voting Rights Act languishes in a split Congress, an already deep divide in Americans’ access to voting has widened over the past year. In part ...

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Taking them out of class could worsen their chances of success. But an analysis of data in California shows the state’s homeless students are suspended at higher rates than their peers. California ...

This demographic mismatch comes alongside an increasingly successful effort to push high courts to the right, the subject of a recent Public Integrity investigation. Nationally, state supreme courts ...

The top 1% of earners in the state would receive an average tax cut of about $10,000 per year, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and West Virginia Center on ...

In this 2015 photo, Rafael Surmay (left), Preston Pahia and Donna Johnson (right) distribute drinking water to neighbors in East Porterville, California, an unincorporated community in Tulare County.