Budgets

Local election administrators across the country face new problems and threats. But their budgets for new voting equipment remain inadequate.

• By Kate Rabinowitz

Follow the people, not the papers.

• By Francie Diep

States pay hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to keep each juvenile offender behind bars. A new report calculates that long-term costs of incarceration could add up to $21 billion annually.

• By Lauren Kirchner