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In New Mexico, anti-abortion activists take abortion restrictions local

New Mexico is at the heart of a fight over abortion rights that's pitting local anti-abortion ordinances against state officials who support abortion rights.

"If we're not able to address the short-term cash needs of rural hospitals, we're going to see hundreds ... close before this crisis ends," warns the head of the National Rural Hospital Association. "This is not hyperbole."

Coronavirus Threatens Rural Hospitals Already At The Financial Brink

About half of U.S. rural hospitals operate in the red on a good day. Now facing a pandemic, hospital CEOs warn that, without federal help, their doors may close when the community most needs them.

Former coal miners are trained as linesmen in a program co-sponsored by the Hazard Community and Technical College and the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program in Hazard, Ky.

Eastern Kentucky Tries To Keep Former Coal Miners From Leaving

For a long time, coal was king in eastern Kentucky. But the industry today is hemorrhaging jobs. The region is now struggling to rebuild its economy and find new jobs for unemployed miners.

Deputy Solicitor General Alex Hemmer with the attorney general’s office argues before the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday in Springfield. Hemmer defended the cash bail provisions contained in the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform that a lower court ruled unconstitutional last year. Also pictured are House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch (seated to Hemmer's right) and Attorney General Kwame Raoul (far right). Welch and Raoul are both defendants in the lawsuit.

Justices consider constitutionality of SAFE-T Act’s pretrial detention provisions

Abolition of cash bail was placed on hold in December pending appeal to Supreme Court

Doctor Shortage Fuels Nurses' Push For Expanded Role

Nurse practitioners are gaining support in their drive to play a larger primary care role. But the AMA is waving a yellow caution flag before state regulators and legislators.

A wide shot of a desk at an intensive care unit inside a hospital. Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration has mailed letters to people who have Medicaid. More than 700,000 people in Illinois will lose, or are at risk of losing, their public health insurance.

Illinois alerts more than 700,000 people they will or could lose public health insurance

The state has mailed letters to thousands of Medicaid enrollees with low incomes or a disability. They could lose coverage as soon as Oct. 1 due to legislation that President Donald Trump signed into law last year.

Illinoisans have had to deal with changes in daily routines.

The Pandemic On Main Street: As State Restrictions Relax, Local Leaders Face Tough Choices

Editor’s Note: The Institute of Government and Public Affairs assembled a task force of interdisciplinary faculty experts from all three universities in...

'Supreme Inequality' Argues That America's Top Court Has Become Right-Wing

In a new book, lawyer/journalist Adam Cohen makes the case that the Supreme Court has been "a right-wing court for 50 years," siding with corporations and the wealthy — and against the poor.

Trump's pick Lori Chavez-DeRemer wins confirmation as labor secretary

She is the last of President Trump's cabinet nominees to get final approval from the U.S. Senate.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in October on the day arguments took place in a case about political maps in Wisconsin.

Supreme Court Delivers Blow To Republicans, Declines To Take Up Pa. Redistricting

The court decided Monday not to take up a GOP challenge to a Pennsylvania state court decision that could result in Democrats picking up a handful of House seats.

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