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Like most of the country, Missouri’s childcare system is a patchwork of private and public facilities that are often prohibitively expensive.
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A lack of child care options in rural Kansas leaves families desperate and threatens the future of small towns.
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A year of school closures, quarantines and work from home underscored the importance of child care, even as providers in the Kansas City area struggled to keep their doors open.
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After introducing the American Rescue Plan then the American Jobs Plan, President Joe Biden has introduced another sweeping bill, the American Families Plan.
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What's in President Biden's latest plan to help Americans and a documentary series details the intriguing history of Olathe, Kansas.
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Sisters Corita Bussanmas and Berta Sailer co-founded Operation Breakthrough in 1971. Bussanmas could be stern, but she loved every child she cared for.
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Schools and child care centers sometimes struggle to get families to get flu shots. Teachers expect they'll have to do parent education around the new COVID-19 vaccine, too.
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When affordable child care is scarce, it's moms who have to choose between work and family.
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Missouri women with the talent and skills to lead remain on the sidelines because of unnecessary obstacles, how the pandemic has affected people adopting and giving up pets, and the lessons learned from this most unusual year in sports.
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Critically important brain development occurs in the first three years of a child's life. It's also when states invest the fewest resources.
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Just because students are starting the semester virtually doesn’t mean they’re learning from home.
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From after-school programs to adult education, parents in Kansas and Missouri are doing one of two things: fight to keep programs open or create resources to solve their own problems.