Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Arkansas were among 7 states with more than 25 percent of their population on Medicaid.

Eighteen months into the pandemic, nearly all states with the lowest unemployment rates were Republican-led. As Covid subsided in 2022, a Moody’s study found that red states were leading the nation’s ...

In her column “Democratic States Are Wards of Washington” (Life Science, Feb. 3), Allysia Finley writes of certain states’ dependence on undisciplined federal “handouts.” Yet her ...

As Canadian leaders piece together just how serious U.S. President Donald Trump is over making Canada the 51st American state, a former Republican congressman says it's all a performance — and ...