WASHINGTON (AP) — An estimated 17 million households reported problems finding enough food in 2022 — a sharp jump from 2021 when boosted government aid helped ease the pandemic-induced economic ...

America’s K-12 schools enjoyed a boost of funding from federal pandemic aid packages during the last three school years, but that cash flow is ending in September just as the new one gets underway – ...

During the winter of 2020 and 2021, the US saw deaths from COVID-19 reach 250,000. The following year, this number surged by a third to 330,000. But from August 2022 to March 2023, the number of ...

Several Covid-19 pandemic-era benefits have recently expired, leaving millions of people without the economic assistance they’ve come to rely on. Congress passed a number of sweeping spending packages ...

Some of the government’s biggest pandemic protections ended months or longer ago. Those include the December 2021 termination of temporary changes to the child tax credit and February’s end of ...

Across the United States, every metric used to measure inequality has registered a sharp rise in the last few years, a consequence of the ruling class’s drive to make the working class pay for the ...

When Does the Pandemic End? The coronavirus is no longer in its emergency phase. But does that mean it's no longer a pandemic? On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization for the first time ...

Telemedicine use remains substantially higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, although it has fallen from pandemic highs. To inform the ongoing debate about whether to continue payment for ...