US households got a boost to their finances during the pandemic, though the increases in wealth differed based on racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds, according to a new report. Between 2019 and ...

Four years after schools were shuttered during the pandemic, the latest analyses from three scholastic assessment companies paint a dire picture of where American children are now academically. While ...

"Americans are in the midst of a mental health crisis, which lingered well before and was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic," the researchers wrote in the report. "The initial trauma and continued ...

COVID-19 and delayed care contributed to a surge in deaths from heart disease during the pandemic, according to a new report from the American Heart Association. Deaths related to cardiovascular ...

Gaps in achievement levels between high and low-income areas continue to remain. Elementary and middle school students have only made up some of the losses in math and reading they experienced during ...

BILL. THANK YOU. A NEW REPORT IS UNPACKING THE EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC ON K THROUGH 12 EDUCATION HERE IN NEBRASKA, AND IT IS HIGHLIGHTING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE. WAVERLE MONROE IS ON THE LIVE DESK WITH ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a new director, Dr. Mandy Cohen. Her predecessor, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, acknowledged CDC was "responsible for some pretty dramatic, pretty public ...

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A new assessment of New York's pandemic response says Andrew Cuomo's top-down management was "a significant and unnecessary mistake." Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In the COVID-19 pandemic's early, ...

(The Center Square) — New Jersey Republicans are seizing on a new independent report detailing Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it backs up their claims that he ...