A viral video posted just after Christmas spurred an avalanche of news coverage, changes from the Trump administration, and ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing $10 billion in federal funds in five Democrat-run states over ...

Child care programs depend on predictable funding. A possible federal rollback has providers bracing for change.

There are many ways to measure a child care program's quality. Michigan's Great Start to Quality system is designed to ...

Child care providers estimated Wednesday that over 20,000 children in over 4,000 programs could be affected by a freeze. One ...

"Our kids should not be political pawns in a fight that Donald Trump seems to have with blue state governors." — Gov. Kathy ...

A conservative influencer’s viral video alleging widespread fraud at taxpayer-funded child care centers in Minnesota’s Somali community kicked off a political firestorm that was years in the making.

A 42-minute video from a conservative content creator in Minnesota has provided the Trump administration with yet another opportunity to argue that federal safety net programs are plagued by ...

Medicaid has long been a cash cow for Somali fraudsters seeking to profit from taxpayer-funded programming in Minnesota.

In the child welfare system, the threshold at which a drug test is considered positive varies widely from one jurisdiction to ...