American Governance and Public Policy series

Medicaid, one of the largest federal programs in the United States, gives grants to states to provide health insurance for over 60 million low-income Americans.

Although a frequently discussed reform, campaigns to merge a major municipality and county to form a unified government fail to win voter approval eighty per cent of the time.

Created in 1974, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become one of the most influential forces in national policymaking.