Michigan's early childhood agency announced a pilot program giving higher wages to child care workers in hopes of keeping ...

Detroit-based advocacy group Mothering Justice Action Fund hosted its annual State of the Mama event on Thursday night  “These are not abstract policy conversations. These are our realities,” said ...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared March as Reading Month in Michigan in a press release on Sunday. She highlighted her continued focus on literacy supporting readers through the new Every Child Reads ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered her eighth — and final — State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature on Wednesday evening. The term-limited Democrat touted past ...

Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said the Trump administration’s actions cutting federal funding for various programs have cost the people of Illinois $8.4 billion.

The State Department is planning to revoke more passports from people with large amounts of outstanding unpaid child support. Individuals who owe more than $100,000 will be among the first groups ...

The U.S. State Department is looking to step up its enforcement of a 30-year-old law that allows it to revoke passports of American parents who owe a significant amount in child support. Officials who ...

BRAINERD — The Child Support Division recently launched iPayOnline as another option for participants to make payments on Minnesota Child Support cases. Most court orders require parents to pay their ...

Parents who owe a significant amount of child support soon could lose their ability to travel internationally as the Trump administration expands and steps up enforcement of a 30-year-old law that ...

The poverty rate under Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, has ranged from 13.1% to 13.5%. The state’s poverty rate remains higher than the national average. The rate is lower than it ...

Child care subsidy programs have faced increased scrutiny following claims of widespread program fraud from the Trump administration. A Republican state lawmaker called for a program evaluation that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan's auditor general plans to review the state's child care subsidy program, and among the factors for the decision is a ...