Washington, DC, USA. This year, many states were poised to switch from traditional pension plans to a kind similar to the ones popular in the private sector. That didn’t happen.

But states did cut employee benefits, raised the retirement age and increased the amount that public workers were expected to contribute to their own pensions.

Washington, DC, USA. Three governors have pulled their states out of a federal immigration enforcement program because few of the people being deported were convicted of serious criminal offenses.

Data show that an even greater proportion of low-level offenders have been deported from other states.