Nicole Grundmeier
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The Midwest Newsroom
Brutal heat waves are becoming more frequent across the Midwest. The 2027 college football season will start even earlier. With fans and others at risk for heat-related illness, universities will need to find solutions.
Laura Ziegler
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Leah McBride Mensching
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Special to The Midwest Newsroom
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Families in many Midwestern states face long waiting periods for Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid waivers that help keep people with disabilities out of institutions. -
Pew Research Center released new data showing a majority of Americans feel that life has become unaffordable, and are becoming pessimistic about their ability to save and plan for the future. -
More children from mixed-status families are being separated from their parents through detention or deportation. Researchers and advocates believe the trauma of being split up predisposes a generation to health, academic and economic consequences. -
Data center demand, severe weather and the aging grid are forcing utilities to drive up electricity rates. While the Midwest has historically had the cheapest energy in the nation, forces are undermining that trend. -
The arrests of plant workers and others around southwest Kansas began Tuesday, causing alarm and confusion across the region, where immigrants make up a large portion of the agriculture workforce.
