The new tax and spending law’s requirements for food assistance and Medicaid impose costly administrative burdens on states and localities. Widely misunderstood rules for taxing overtime will intensify the administrative pain. Public employers should start preparing their workers for the confusion to come.
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Over recent decades we’ve moved toward a much more effective and humane system to deal with youth crime. Evidence and research, not hyperbole and hysteria, should be guiding today’s debate.
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New Hampshire state Rep. Ellen Read. The Democrat sponsored the nation’s first law requiring doctors to perform sterilization procedures for patients who request them, regardless of age, marital status or personal views on fertility. Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed the bipartisan measure on July 15. (New Hampshire Bulletin)
