California's budget is over-reliant on income taxes making it volatile, especially during periods of economic uncertainty.

Near (Hire With Near) reports that U.S. companies are increasingly hiring in Latin America due to budget constraints and ...

Some California legislators appear interested in new taxes to close a multi-year budget deficit, breaking with the lame duck governor.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recently proposed 2026-27 state budget included a pleasant surprise: a deficit of about $3 billion — ...

Over the course of this legislative session, Virginia lawmakers might have to plug a budget hole for services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities if they want to reduce the ...

State lawmakers will return to Olympia on Jan. 12 for the start of their short session. With only 60 days to work, they must remain tightly focused on the most critical issue facing Washington: a $2.3 ...

There's no money in next year's budget for improvements at St. Louis County's aging jail as detainees live with moldy showers, overflowing toilets, leaky ceilings and overcrowding. St. Louis County ...

As they close the books for 2025, the Yankton County commissioners are moving forward with a 2026 financial task force for better budgeting and controlling costs. The commissioners met on Monday to ...

The closure of three elementary schools come as the Vallejo City Unified School District is facing a multi-million dollar deficit, and there are broad cuts coming beyond the campus closures. Kara St.

In a new paper that studies tool-use in large language model (LLM) agents, researchers at Google and UC Santa Barbara have developed a framework that enables agents to make more efficient use of tool ...

Admittedly, the proposal did not emerge in a vacuum. It is the latest in a series of substantive moves by successive Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administrations in response to intensifying ...

Journal Editorial Report: California’s governor takes on Trump as he eyes a 2028 White House run. Photo: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom is fond of exultant press releases ...