In each year from 2016 through 2018, more than 2 million parents of children age 5 and younger suffered “job...
Milwaukee journalist Tom Kertscher was a 35-year newspaper reporter, finishing that career at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Now a freelance writer, his work includes fact-checking for PolitiFact and sports reporting for the Associated Press. His reporting on Steven Avery was featured in Making a Murderer. Kertscher is the author of sports books on Brett Favre and Al McGuire. Follow him at TomKertscher.com and on Twitter: @KertscherNews and @KertscherSports.
The 2020-2021 federal budget unveiled Feb. 10 by President Donald Trump proposes $920 billion in cuts over 10 years to...
Some of the headlines, such as this one on an opinion piece in the Washington Post, have been jarring: The...
Daniel Hudson, a 32-year-old pitcher for Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals, was criticized by some for missing a playoff game...
Last November, voters in and around Grand Rapids, Michigan’s second-largest city (population 200,000), made Kent County the first county in Michigan to approve a referendum that raises property taxes specifically for early childhood.
Researchers presenting at the recent 2019 Zero to Three conference detailed a program that studies have found effective in treating...
A lead crisis plaguing Newark, N.J., is the latest large-scale threat posed by lead in water, a health hazard that’s...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued its first-ever guidelines on screen time for children younger than 5, recommending no...
The Trump administration has rejected a proposed ban on a pesticide used for generations that repeatedly has been linked with,...
Paid family leave — to care for new children or aging relatives, or to recover from a serious health problem...
When the Washington Post published an article headlined “Books of the Ages — The best books to read at every...
A universal child care plan rolled out by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, one of the roughly two dozen...