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States Newsroom Staff

Tax-swap package now left to Louisiana voters

Legislatures across the country back off COVID-19 protocols

By: and - January 18, 2022

Unlike recent years, when masks and social distancing were common, if not the explicit rule, in many state legislatures you’d hardly know that we were entering the third year of a pandemic.

Settled into new homes, refugees in US say they are working for a better life for all

By: - June 20, 2021

Violence, persecution and wars amid a global pandemic added to the growing number of displaced persons around the world last year. The United Nations reports that 11.2 million people were displaced from their homelands in 2020, bringing the total number of displaced persons in the world to 82.4 million.  Of those forced to flee their […]