Not one, not two, but three extensions later, HHS basically tosses the "deadline" for state health insurance exchanges.

Gov. Rick Scott proposed a record, $74.2 billion budget Thursday that would expand health-care and services to the disabled, give teachers and state employees raises, offer more tax cuts to businesses, and restores cuts to universities.

Nixon’s budget relies on $46.6 million from the expansion of Medicaid – the health care program for the poor – via an optional provision under the federal Affordable Care Act, but GOP leaders have repeatedly said that they don’t think expansion is the best option for Missouri.

The United States is on track by 2020 to become the world's largest oil producer and a net exporter of natural gas, a reversal of fortunes with huge consequences for many state budgets.

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan Wednesday turned thumbs down on a planned summit sponsored by public employee unions to discuss a pension compromise.

The performance of Missouri's higher education institutions could be the determining factor in how much money they receive from the state.

Gov. Mark Dayton's administration said Monday that what was initially billed as $225 million in spending cuts in his budget blueprint is actually $58 million less.

The Maryland House GOP leadership is backing a package of bills that would steer the $40 billion system away from what they consider overly risky investments and lower the long-term assumptions of the retirement plan's earnings on its investments.

Representatives of unions, retirees and state pension funds lined up Tuesday to criticize a bill to end guaranteed pensions for new public employees and replace them with something similar to 401(k) plans in the private sector.

Drafts of bills in the package would strengthen prohibitions on the use of one-time money for recurring revenues and provide more time for lawmakers to review the budget as it makes it way through the legislature.