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The child care crisis has been ongoing for several years and demonstrates market failure. The costs are too high for families, and providers struggle to keep their businesses open and pay fair wages.
Just in case anybody is still wondering why Wisconsin Republicans lose statewide elections all the time, look no further than the GOP’s legislative leadership for a quick explanation.
This funding was approved in the past. If it goes away, it would leave many in Wisconsin and across the nation without access to the critical services and educational programming public media provides.
The GOP-led Congress narrowly passed the “Big Beautiful Act”, to kneel before Trump on July 4th, sullying our sacred day.
When Frederick Douglass stood before a Rochester audience on July 5, 1852, and delivered his searing critique “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, he exposed the fundamental contradiction at the heart of American democracy.
We must remind our fellow Americans why we are a great nation.
For a country that prides itself on innovation and reinvention, we sure do seem stuck in the past — clinging to systems that serve fewer and fewer of us, while demanding more and more.
Americans celebrating July 4 deserve a president who can both articulate what the Declaration of Independence means and govern according to its principles.
I contend that a chief quality of those who deserve citizenship is that they don’t take their citizenship for granted. They know their parents sacrificed much to make it happen. We are proud Americans. We belong here. And we deserve to stay.
DOGE disruptions, retirements and anticipated cuts threaten care for veterans.
The big picture: For every kid who enters MPS as a freshman each fall and goes on post-secondary education, there are at least two who do not, at least not in the year after high school ended.
Pritzker has long been a fierce Trump critic, and the billionaire governor of Illinois was unsparing in his initial post-election comments, warning against attacks on his state.
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The child care crisis has been ongoing for several years and demonstrates market failure. The costs are too high for families, and providers struggle to keep their businesses open and pay fair wages.
Just in case anybody is still wondering why Wisconsin Republicans lose statewide elections all the time, look no further than the GOP’s legislative leadership for a quick explanation.
This funding was approved in the past. If it goes away, it would leave many in Wisconsin and across the nation without access to the critical services and educational programming public media provides.
The GOP-led Congress narrowly passed the “Big Beautiful Act”, to kneel before Trump on July 4th, sullying our sacred day.
When Frederick Douglass stood before a Rochester audience on July 5, 1852, and delivered his searing critique “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, he exposed the fundamental contradiction at the heart of American democracy.
We must remind our fellow Americans why we are a great nation.
For a country that prides itself on innovation and reinvention, we sure do seem stuck in the past — clinging to systems that serve fewer and fewer of us, while demanding more and more.
Americans celebrating July 4 deserve a president who can both articulate what the Declaration of Independence means and govern according to its principles.
I contend that a chief quality of those who deserve citizenship is that they don’t take their citizenship for granted. They know their parents sacrificed much to make it happen. We are proud Americans. We belong here. And we deserve to stay.
DOGE disruptions, retirements and anticipated cuts threaten care for veterans.
The big picture: For every kid who enters MPS as a freshman each fall and goes on post-secondary education, there are at least two who do not, at least not in the year after high school ended.
Pritzker has long been a fierce Trump critic, and the billionaire governor of Illinois was unsparing in his initial post-election comments, warning against attacks on his state.
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