When we spoke to Daniel Jaime last month, he was hoping for a miracle. DANIEL JAIME: For a miracle that things change and that we can have the government to reopen and we can continue providing ...

WASHINGTON — When food stamp benefits faced a cutoff, nonprofit groups and local governments filed lawsuits, winning court orders requiring the resumption of payments. And when military troops risked ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — WISH-TV is celebrating heroes all month long, and on Monday, we shared the story of a local woman recovering from addiction and the organization that she says helped save her ...

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.

TROY, Ohio — For almost as long as she’s been a mother, Sara Laughlin has known where she could turn for help in this western Ohio town 20 miles north of Dayton. For years, the local Head Start ...

Many Head Start programs across the country could be forced to close at the end of this week if the federal government shutdown continues, jeopardizing free child care and other services for tens of ...

Out of 48 programs, nine Michigan Head Start grantees awaiting federal funds to keep running their programs on Nov. 1 risk closure if the shutdown continues and funds aren't disbursed. Program ...