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Junior pitcher Patrick Steitz shined in his Kansas debut with six scoreless innings on the mound to lead Kansas to an 8-2 victory against Illinois-Chicago on Sunday at Whataburger Field.

Kansas will kick off the 2024 season and the 134th season of baseball at the University of Kansas on Friday when it opens a three-game series against Illinois-Chicago at Whataburger Field. Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald will be entering his second year at the helm of the program.

Missouri ranks 34th in the nation for broadband coverage and speed, with more than 330,000 residents lacking broadband access, but now, agencies hope federal funds coming into the state will help. Missouri is set to receive at least $100 million to build out broadband from the bipartisan infrastructure law. Paul Eisenstein, director for strategy and performance for the Missouri Department of Economic Development, said so much is being done online since the pandemic began, including work, schoo...

Wisconsin families may have received their last Child Tax Credit payment for a while, as Congress has missed its year-end deadline to pass President Joe Bidens Build Back Better framework. The roughly $2 trillion package would have reauthorized the expanded Child Tax Credit through 2022. Parents received their last credit on Dec. ...

The future of the Build Back Better Act may be in doubt in Congress, but Connecticut labor leaders say the bill would make key workplace reforms with the potential to shift more power to workers. Build Back Better includes a proposal for "civil penalties" or fines on employers who illegally retaliate against workers trying to form or join a union. Ed Hawthorne, president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, which represents 200,000 workers statewide, said these penalties would help lev...

By Katie Fleischer for Ms. Magazine.Broadcast version by Emily Scott for New Mexico News Connection reporting for the Ms. Magazine-Public News Service Collaboration Throughout 2020 and 2021, marginalized communities were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbating economic inequities that already fell along race, gender and class divides. ...

Nonprofits promoting affordable health care and working families in Nevada are regrouping to fight for President Joe Bidens domestic agenda after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., rejected the Build Back Better Act, saying it is too expensive, thus dooming it in a divided Senate. Build Back Better would invest billions to fight climate change, lower the cost of child care and keep the monthly Child Tax Credit checks flowing. ...

Health advocates are pressing the U.S. Senate to approve the Build Back Better Act, because it would improve Medicaid and CHIP - the Children's Health Insurance Program.