Children’s Health

Congress provided billions of dollars to help communities remove lead pipes under the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law. The funding will help water systems pay for those projects. Almost all of them can apply for forgivable loans. But Superior’s water utility is barred from doing so.

“MPS allowed children back into the work areas at Fernwood to attend class on March 11, 2025, while paint chip dust and debris from the previous night’s work was present,” the letter states.

Three more schools in Milwaukee are closing after staff with the city health department identified “significant lead hazards” when inspecting the properties this week.

Health officials in Milwaukee are holding a free lead poisoning screening clinic for school children who may have been exposed to dangerous levels of lead at four Milwaukee Public Schools.

For Alyssa Schade and the volunteers she works with, it’s about more than providing a place to sleep—it’s about giving kids a place to dream.

With Wisconsin’s low measles vaccination rate, public health experts worry the state might soon see its own outbreak. “It’s really all hands on deck for our small department if a case were to come to Wisconsin,” said Melissa Geach, Iron County health officer.

Lawmakers say the “Help Not Harm Act” will protect minors from “making life-altering, irreversible decisions that cause mental and bodily harm.”

Eighty-two percent of Wisconsin’s 2-year-olds had a measles shot in 2023, per state health data, down from 88 percent in 2013. Some Wisconsin counties saw much bigger drops.

Officials with the health department said they may move to shut down schools in Milwaukee to clean additional buildings that may have lead risk hazards.

The president’s order claims transition treatments can cause the youth to have higher medical bills over their lifetime and can lead to regret as they age because it may affect their ability to conceive children.