The first step to getting help is getting tested. But the city of Milwaukee has a problem. Since the pandemic, lead screening of kids has plummeted. Testing numbers have struggled to recover since, ...

Shyquetta McElroy is on a mission. Posted up at her kitchen island one Friday morning, she has a single aim: getting as many students as possible tested for lead poisoning at Clarke Street School the ...

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