Jury selection starts Monday in the first trial in an alleged $250 million scheme to defraud government child nutrition programs. And a new statewide survey from First Children’s Finance and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis shows fewer Minnesota child care operators struggled financially last year. 

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