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Ohio State Teachers Retirement System will close on-site child care center
The Ohio State Teachers Retirement System is closing their on-site child care center — leaving families scrambling. After 34 years, the C. James Grothaus Child Care Center is shutting its doors for good on Dec. 31. “The decision to close the center is nothing that comes to me easily,” STRS Executive Director Bill Neville said […]
An estimated 37,000 American kids lost a parent to COVID-19, study finds
An estimated 37,000 to 43,000 American children lost a parent to COVID-19 as of February, according to research published this week. Among the findings, which appeared in JAMA Pediatrics, children aged 0 to 17 experienced a surge in what’s known as “parental bereavement” of somewhere between 17.5% and 20.2%. Of those 37,000 who lost a […]