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The following program is a PBS Wisconsin original production.

Jennifer Mnookin:
People throw around words like unprecedented, but this is a challenging time for higher education.

Frederica Freyberg:
Universities, agriculture, child care and public health. The hits keep coming as federal funding cuts persist.
I’m Frederica Freyberg. Tonight on “Here & Now,” UW-Madison responds to growing top-down pressures. A ginseng farmer on the realities of a trade war with China. The perfect storm of state and federal dollars for child care disappearing. And what’s next for poisonous lead levels in Milwaukee schools. It’s “Here & Now” for April 18.

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Funding for “Here & Now” is provided by the Focus Fund for Journalism and Friends of PBS Wisconsin.