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States Discover That Permitting Is a Policy, Not a Formality
Governments across the country are rewriting approval processes after concluding that the gap between funded projects and finished ones is largely administrative.
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The Rural Broadband Buildout Reaches the Hard Part
The easy miles are wired. What remains are the households that made the economics impossible in the first place, and the programs now confronting them.
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Disaster Costs Are Rewriting the Deal Between States and Washington
As catastrophe losses mount, the informal understanding that the federal government backstops state disasters is being renegotiated in budget documents rather than speeches.
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The Quiet Fight Over the Numbers Everything Depends On
Federal statistics determine how hundreds of billions are distributed and how the economy is understood. Budget pressure and response-rate decline are straining them at once.
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Federal Workforce Programs Meet the Employers They Were Built For
Decades of job training funding produced mixed results. The programs now showing measurable wage gains share one feature: an employer at the table before the curriculum is written.
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States Are Writing the AI Rulebook, One Legislature at a Time
In the absence of comprehensive federal legislation, statehouses have produced a growing body of AI law, and companies are complying with the strictest version everywhere.