RALEIGH — The income of the median American household fell by nearly 3% last year as the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent regulations shuttered many businesses for months, closed others for good, and ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Burnout has become a growing concern, at least in the popular press, since the beginning of the pandemic. Burnout is regularly attributed to overwork[1], and for the last decade or so, there have been ...

Nearly 16 percent of residents in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area were in poverty last year, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey released Thursday. The ...

The Jamestown, Brocton and Dunkirk school districts recently ranked 17 and 21, 32, respectively, on a list of the top 50 Upstate New York Schools in poverty among district throughout the state. The ...

U.S. Census Bureau data released this fall sparked national attention over the historic drop in U.S. child poverty statistics for 2021. Many believe these figures will climb again following the ...

Lawsuit in Canada to Force Catholic Hospitals to Permit Euthanasia ‘This Could Happen to Anyone’: Noah Rothman and Julie Roginsky Debate the ICE Threat to Civilian Life Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well . .

Childhood poverty is a silent crisis affecting families across New York State and here in Westchester County. Despite being one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, Westchester's prosperity ...

Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...