A custom app blocks TikTok, Instagram and games during school hours — and alerts administrators when students try to get ...

As pennies vanish from the American landscape, many businesses are clamoring for federal guidance on how to handle cash ...

More than 8.3 million minimum-wage workers got a pay raise Jan. 1, marking the largest single-day wave of state minimum wage increases.

Some non-elite downtowns are seeing positive signs. Detroit of all places is doing well, with a major new office tower about to go up that’s almost entirely preleased. Goldman Sachs is building an 800 ...

There are nearly 300 data centers in Northern Virginia, scattered across Loudoun, Fairfax and Prince William counties. It's the largest concentration of data centers in the world. The increase in ...

No national standard exists for how many officers departments should have per capita. That's in part due to the fact that population totals don't fully reflect demands placed on law enforcement ...

The FBI defines officers as employees who “ordinarily carry a firearm and a badge, have full arrest powers, and are paid from governmental funds set aside specifically to pay sworn law enforcement.” ...

Some states are home to significant numbers of local governments, with numerous jurisdictional boundaries and overlapping special districts. Nationally, there were a total of 38,779 general-purpose ...

The youth unemployment rate for those between the ages of 16 and 24 was around 8 percent in early 2017. Typically teenagers report the highest rates of unemployment. Those in their early 20s are more ...

Governments can’t always do all the things they want to do. When their resources are stretched too thin, or when the public determines they don’t want government involved in a particular area -- ...

It’s Saturday night, and Washington, D.C., Police Chief Cathy Lanier is in her cruiser, rolling through Barry Farm at 20 miles per hour. Barry Farm is a public housing development east of the ...

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