A massive backlog of police conduct complaints against Minneapolis officers has finally been cleared, the city announced Monday. It comes after 16 months of focused efforts by the city’s Office of ...

The Department of Education (ED) has been forced to double back on its March 2025 decision to lay off hundreds of civil rights employees. In December 2025, the agency called back employees who worked ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Minsky is an attorney and writer focusing on student loans. US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stands in the driveway ...

For years, Indiana has struggled to clear its stack of untested rape kits. Lawmakers are once again hoping to tackle the problem that leaves victims waiting for justice. House Bill 1413, if passed, ...

When a backlog becomes overloaded, execution collapses. The backlog stops being a planning tool and becomes a liability that ...

Oregon Senate lawmakers called in officials from the state Department of Education this week to explain why the agency is struggling to clear a backlog of school discrimination complaints despite the ...

When Oregon State Police announced in 2018 that they had eliminated a massive backlog of unprocessed sexual assault evidence kits, officials celebrated ending a decades-old managerial and moral ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is grappling with a mounting backlog of school and college discrimination cases, prompting an unusual request from ...

January is often a quiet month for big video game releases. So this cold, wintry month becomes a perfect time to evaluate your ever-growing backlog of video games and start chipping away at it. That’s ...

The key difference between the sprint backlog and the product backlog is that the sprint backlog represents the work developers expect to complete in the next few weeks, while the product backlog ...