The Pennsylvania Capitol building may seem like an unlikely place to find shimmering slime, moldable
magnets and a toy car that plays loud music at the touch of a button.

Racism hurts children, in real and fundamental ways. It hurts not just their health, but their chances for a good, successful life.

A just-signed law designed to modernize Pennsylvania’s election laws and help pay for new voting machines also includes money for the state to bolster federal census efforts.

The number of children in the nation with no health insurance increased from 2016 to 2018, but a new report shows that in Pennsylvania the insurance rate stayed about the same.

The Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children released a report Tuesday about children’s health care. In it, Lancaster County is reported to have the highest rate of uninsured children in the state at 16 percent, almost 22,000 kids.