Maryland legislature

Maryland health departments and social service agencies would distribute free menstrual hygiene products to low-income households should a bill in the state Legislature pass this session

Maryland’s legislature is taking a serious look at statewide police reform following this past summer’s calls for social justice. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports.

Leading national trade associations have filed a federal lawsuit challenging Maryland’s first-in-the-nation tax on internet ads

Maryland legislators introduced a bill that would allow localities throughout the state to place more stringent restrictions on the sale and distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products

The Maryland Senate has approved about $1.5 billion in pandemic relief

Maryland inmates make as little as $0.17 per hour for voluntary prison employment and training, a stipend that one lawmaker compared to “slave labor” in support of legislation that would require the state to pay more

The pandemic has highlighted how many people in America are living close to the financial edge. For years, working one full-time job has not been enough for many minimum wage workers to get by. Should a full-time job in America guarantee a living wage? NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway explores how the system is working against our essential workers.

Maryland lawmakers have gathered for the first day of their annual 90-day legislative session in a Capitol setting transformed by precautions against the coronavirus

The president of Xavier University of Louisiana, Reynold Verret, is participating in a Covid-19 vaccine trial and encouraging Black students to follow suit. He explains why it is so important for people of color to be represented in the vaccine trials given that they are disproportionately dying from the virus.

A week after the Virginia Senate unanimously passed a bill that would require public schools to provide free menstrual products in bathrooms, Maryland lawmakers are trying to do the same.