Tim Henderson, Stateline

A sign at a University of Utah health clinic warns visitors about the spread of measles. Under the Trump administration, federal health officials have cut back the number of recommended vaccines, and more states are offering exemptions for parents who don’t want to vaccinate children entering public schools.

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States that once led in child vaccination fall as they expand exemptions

Indiana's average kindergarten vaccination rate for 2024-25 was 90.2% — dropping from 93.6% in 2018-2019. Nonmedical exemptions have jumped from 1% to 2.6%.

There were 105 immigration arrests in October at a horse racetrack in Wilder, Idaho. Idaho saw one of the country’s largest increases in immigration arrests this year through mid-October compared with the same period in the Biden administration.

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An ever-larger share of ICE’s arrested immigrants have no criminal record

Tim Henderson, Stateline

There have been 2,804 immigration arrests in Indiana under President Donald Trump's administration. That is double the 2024 total under former President Joe Biden at 1,395.

Jessie Edmond holds a photo of her son, Julian “Wolf” Rivera, who died at 27 in 2019 in Middletown, N.Y. Suicide has increased for Gen Z adults ages18-27 since 2014, when the millennials were in early adulthood, with most of the increase among Black and Hispanic men.

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Suicide claims more Gen Z lives than previous generation

Tim Henderson, Stateline

Suicide has increased for Gen Z adults ages 18-27 since 2014, when the millennials were in early adulthood, with most of the increase among Black and Hispanic men.

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Economists say job losses likely, even as shutdown delays report

Tim Henderson, Stateline

Friday’s jobs report is missing in action because of the federal shutdown, but economists are finding other ways of measuring apparent job losses concentrated in Midwestern states and oil country.

Attorney FritzGerald Tondreau, who helps with immigration issues at Konbit Neg Lakay in Spring Valley, N.Y., shows intimidating videos of gang hostages and enemies being killed or beaten in Haiti. As a new wave of immigrants fleeing chaos arrives, many are moving beyond New York and Florida to find jobs and housing.

Haitian immigrants find new footholds, and familiar backlash, in the Midwest, South

Tim Henderson, Stateline

Indiana’s Haitian immigrant population grew to 12,465 between 2019 and 2023