Facing deep budget shortfalls, state and local governments have shed 1.3 million jobs since the pandemic began last year — a loss of more than 1 in 20 government jobs, according to a Washington Post ...

The federal government spent a record $682 billion on contracts in fiscal 2020, according to an analysis released Thursday by Bloomberg Government. Buoyed in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, the total ...

The 2020 Center for Digital Government Surveys,* which collected responses from public officials in states, cities and counties across the country, provided tangible evidence that several emerging ...

A religious service is held outside St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Burwood, Australia, to comply with COVID-19 social distancing rules in March 2020. (Jenny Evans/Getty Images) How we did this This is ...

During the 2020 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters. But this wasn’t traditional political spending. He funded a targeted, ...

In 2020, we observed the largest one-year debt surge since World War II, with global debt rising to $226 trillion as the world was hit by a global health crisis and a deep recession. Debt was already ...

The State Department could not compile a list of gifts for 2020, making it difficult to determine whether officials did anything improper. By Michael S. Schmidt The Trump administration left office ...

The 2020 Lompoc census data summary report released in November 2021 by the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments reflects both population growth and demographic shifts. Lisa André covers ...