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The occasional weekend sleepover at a friend’s house...Playing on the school basketball team...Going on a class field trip...Getting a cell…

Michigan spends about $5.6 billion on social welfare programs a year, and that doesn't include health care. Even though that's only about 10% of the…

I've been planning to do a radio story on empathy for more than a year, but it's never really come together. Now I probably don't have to. This animation…

At the end of 2012 Governor Rick Snyder signed a bill into a law prohibiting employers and schools from asking for social media usernames and passwords.…

Almost exactly two years ago, I crossed the Atlantic and took up residence in a land of rainstorms and rainbows to do a Masters in Social Policy. I landed…

Your participation and insightful guests made for a spirited discussion about themes ranging from power to policy, but really the question was if all kids…

This week, the state legislature began its first hearings on Governor's Snyder's proposal to more than double preschool funding in Michigan over the next…

Preschool seems to be having a moment right now. Lots of states are looking at expanding access to a pre-K education. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder just…

As a child growing up in 1970's and '80s Grand Rapids, I had the opportunity to try many things: basketball, flute lessons, acting, and sewing, to name a…