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By Henry T. Puls, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Mеrcy Kаnsаs City, University of Mіssourі-Kаnsаs City; and Paul J. Chung, Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles Financial investments by States in public benefit programs for low-income families are associated with less child abuse and neglect, also known as maltreatment. These investments are also associated with less need for foster care and maltreatment-related deaths, according to our recent publication in the journal Pediatrics. Our research team included the two of us – Hank Puls, a pediatrician who conducts research on the prevention...

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges on November 19 after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism, and racial injustice in the United States. A jury of seven White women, four White men and one man of color took nearly four days to render their verdicts. Rittenhouse, 18, began to choke up and then hugged one of his attorneys as he heard a court clerk recite “not guilty” five times. A sheriff’s deputy whisked him out a back door. “He wants to get on with his life,” defense...

Wisconsin’s largest utility company plans to drop coal from its power mix by 2035, moving the state closer to carbon reduction goals. The company, which owns We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service, expects coal to make up less than 5 percent of its power mix by the end of the decade. “We’re well on our way to achieving some of the most aggressive goals in our industry for reducing carbon emissions,” said Gale Klappa, executive chair of WEC Energy Group. The company plans to make changes to its two coal-fired units at the Elm Road Generating Station that would...