All the news that’s fit to link.
- Public Policy Forum’s latest report reveals persisting problems with MPS as well as some signs of progress. Most troubling is that poverty is “on the rise” and has been for five years.
- There’s a new organization in town that’s determined to help Milwaukeeans convicted of non-violent felonies or misdemeanor crimes get jobs, says the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.
- Since 2004, 50 voucher schools were terminated from the state’s system despite receiving nearly $140 million in state funding. Two thirds of the schools closed after only being open for less than five years, and all of them were in Milwaukee.
- Check in with the Dallas Morning News today to keep up with the latest on the second confirmed case of Ebola in the U.S.
- A new study suggests infants sleeping on couches could be as dangerous as co-sleeping.
