After large drops during the pandemic, life expectancy in the United States should recover to 2019 levels this year ...

The council voted Wednesday to endorse a $9 billion package of proposals that it estimates would provide financial support to more than 1.5 million families. The most impactful proposal, to expand and ...

Fourteen states have paid family and medical leave programs that allow both parents to take between six and 12 weeks to be ...

Taylor Cagnacci moved from California to Tennessee with hopes of starting a new chapter in a state that touts a low cost of ...

I started off 2024 on the climate/environment beat, often reporting with my colleague Colin Kinniburgh. My question was often ...

The minimum wage in Illinois will increase to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, completing a six-year transition period since the increase was approved in 2019. Beginning New Year's Day, Illinois workers making ...

The program in its fourth year has grown from 1,635 students its first year to 5,321 students this school year, an increase in four years of 225 percent.