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| Aug 17, 2026 | Same knee surgery, twice the price: Hospital monopolies push up healthcare costs | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Peter Whoriskey, KFF Health News
More than a million times a year, a U.S. surgeon slices open a knee, strips out worn cartilage, caps the leg bones with metal, and drops in a plastic spacer to a... |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Russia’s war on Ukraine puts women off having children — and that could spell economic disaster | Four years of war appear to have played a big part in deterring or preventing women in Ukraine from having children.
In Russia, women seem to be resistant to repeated calls from the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin to have larger famili... |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new poll finds | By CLAIRE RUSH and LINLEY SANDERS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, according to a new poll, while fewer blame a lack of government support.
However, just over half als... |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Federal student loans will still be a ‘better bet’ than private—even with coming changes, experts say | The question of whether college students should take out federal or private student loans to pay for their education may have just gotten harder to answer.
That’s due to a number of changes in President Donald Trump’s so-called “big beautif... |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Education on the Brink: The Urgent Need for Investment in Sudan's Future | The conflict in Sudan is a storm that rages on, leaving devastation in its wake. Two years of violence have robbed millions of children of their education. The statistics are staggering. Over 30 million people need humanitarian assistance, ... |
| Apr 15, 2025 | At HCI 2025 global minds convene to accelerate the future of human capability with over 13,000 participants from 120 countries | RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The second edition of the Human Capability Initiative (HCI), has concluded, hosting over 300 influential leaders, policymakers, and global experts from 40 countries, including academia, p... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | National Politics | Trump’s win brings uncertainty to borrowers hoping for student loan forgiveness | “That’s a big part of what is making life unaffordable for them is this burden of expenses that they can’t seem to get out from under,” Yu said.
Student loan cancellation was not a focus of the campaign for either Trump or Vice President Ka... |
| Oct 28, 2024 | National Politics | Harris stays quiet on student loans as cancellation loses its political luster | “They didn’t even come close to getting student loans,” Trump said.Biden’s student loan forgiveness efforts have faced relentless roadblocksFILE – President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt at Madison College, April 8, 2024, in Madi... |
| May 13, 2024 | Google and HP aim to bridge remote worker gap with Project Starline | Google and HP today announced their intent to commercialize Project Starline, a custom hardware and software solution that creates a more immersive meeting experience. The technology features a “magic window” to recreate the experience of c... |
| Apr 14, 2024 | Bad times for big cities | This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.
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Boston has a bit of a budget problem. The rise in remote work has caused a slow and steady de... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | Технологические тренды, за которыми стоит следить в 2024 году | Разнообразные гаджеты с ИИ
Такие компании, как Intel и Qualcomm, стремятся создать массовые ПК с отдельными «нейронными процессорами», которые позволили бы использовать функции ИИ.
Microsoft недавно объявила, что на клавиатурах новых ПК с W... |
| Oct 1, 2023 | It’s Not About The Child Tax Credit. It’s About Cash Supports. | The latest report from the Census Bureau shows that the child poverty rate, measured using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), spiked from 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022. The Official Poverty rate for children (under the age of 18) saw n... |
| Aug 30, 2023 | Young Kids in Low-Income Families Get Less Exposure to Math. Can the Right Apps Help? | Recent public debates have focused a spotlight on K-12 math pathways. But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place.
For early learners, exposur... |
| Jan 15, 2023 | Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan, Steve Sisolak Among New Pritzker Fellows At University Of Chicago | The University of Chicago's Institute of Politics has announced its newest Pritzker Fellows. getty |
| Dec 30, 2022 | Proposal For A New US Social Safety Net: Direct Cash Support And One-Stop Shop | Rapid advances in technology have made our lives remarkably convenient. Today, sitting in our homes, we can order anything from groceries to electronics to books to cars. We can request cleaning services, plan travel, speak with medical pro... |
| Nov 14, 2021 | The Skate: So what now? | It is not a good start to the year and everyone knows it.
There’s plenty of chatter swirling about changes.
Sure, maybe this is it.
But we’ve also seen this movie before.
In 2016, the Vancouver Canucks lost nine games in a row. And it was “... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | What's the Latest Research in Development Economics? A Roundup from NEUDC 2021 | Email
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Last weekend was the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference. Researchers-mostly economists-presented nearly 200 papers on topics from agriculture to COVID to marriage to microfinance... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Should You Offer Medical Insurance to Employees? Pros and Cons | Employers are always looking for ways to save money and reduce costs. One popular option is to offer medical insurance as an employer-sponsored benefit rather than a salary increase.
There are advantages and disadvantages to providing your ... |
| Apr 24, 2021 | The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women varies by race and ethnicity, according to a new analysis | From employment to food sufficiency, the pandemic has had devastating effects on women.
59.3% of Latinas lost income since March 2020 compared to 41.3% non-Hispanic white women, NWLC wrote.
Latina and Black women also reported higher shares... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus could drastically cut poverty, studies say | President Joe Biden. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Biden’s $US1.9 ($2) trillion stimulus passed the House again today, and is set to be signed into law this week.
The legislation could play an enormous role in reducing... |
| Jan 23, 2021 | Biden claims his $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan will cut child poverty in half — here’s how | President Joe Biden said a $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan would cut child poverty in half. That would be the largest reduction in recent history, economists said.
Poverty experts think the claim is reasonable and perhaps even understated.
... |
| Jan 20, 2021 | Biden to Extend CDC Moratorium on Evictions and Foreclosures
Biden to Extend CDC Moratorium on Evictions and Foreclosures | (Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden plans to extend bans on home evictions and foreclosures imposed last year to mitigate the dual economic and health crises spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic.
As part of a package of executive orders Biden pl... |
| Jan 4, 2021 | Resolved To Make A Difference In 2021? This Book Can Help | If 2020 left you wanting to do more to help others in need, you’re not alone. Record amounts of charitable donations were made last year and tens of millions volunteered their time. And with the deadly pandemic raging across the country and... |
| Dec 21, 2020 | Congressional leaders strike a long-awaited stimulus deal: $600 checks and $300 federal weekly unemployment benefits for Americans | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP
Top congressional leaders clinched a stimulus deal on Sunday after months of on-again, off-again ne... |
| Dec 18, 2020 | Latest Stimulus Package Would Include Second Stimulus Checks, But Not State Aid; Here’s Why It’s A Good Tradeoff | Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s intransigent stance on keeping the overall stimulus plan ... [+] below $1 trillion is creating a need for unfortunate tradeoffs. Given the end of several federal stimulus programs and the current sta... |
| Nov 21, 2020 | When the $600 weekly bonus unemployment payments stopped, poverty rates in the US increased, new research shows | Some hundreds of residents, affected by the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, line-up in their vehicles as they await their turn to collect groceries from the San Antonio Food Bank in San Antonio, Texas... |
| UK brands that have gone into administration since COVID | It's easy to forget the chaos and uncertainty that the COVID pandemic brought upon us, now that we're on the other side of it.
People were scared, confused, and filled with endless uncertainty about when, or even if, things would ever retur... |
| Ron Insana: Biden’s attempt to reverse wealth inequality will lead to a broader bull market for Wall Street | The latest stimulus effort isn’t just notable for its size. The money is targeted toward the households that need it the most, including the long-term unemployed and lower income families.
This relief, especially if followed by an infrastru... |
| Without more jobless benefits, almost 5 million people will fall into poverty, including 1.3 million kids | 4.8 million Americans will fall into poverty in January if Congress fails to strike a deal on Covid relief, according to Columbia University researchers. About 1 in 4 of them are kids.
The increase would occur if temporary unemployment prog... |
| Congress delivered big Covid relief bills over the past year – but months of inaction took a major toll | Congress quickly sent relief to individuals and businesses a year ago in the form of direct payments, an unemployment supplement and forgivable loans, among other measures.
Lawmakers then allowed effective policies to expire for months, con... |
| Medical debt carries less weight on credit reports. But it’s still a burden for consumers | The share of people with medical debt in collections that shows up in their credit reports has fallen in the past decade, according to the Urban Institute.
Yet the median medical debt in collections increased in that time.
New efforts, incl... |
| Stimulus checks, unemployment benefits lift 1.6 million Americans out of poverty | A $900 billion Covid relief bill in December led the U.S. poverty rate to fall 0.5 points, to 11.3%, in January, according to economists at the University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame.
Pandemic aid included $600 stimulus checks a... |
| ‘Headstrong’ women and ‘dependent’ men may get paid less, research finds | Women earned just 84% of what men earned in 2020, and that difference has mostly stayed the same in recent years.
Research shows that young men and women in comparable positions may be paid less if they exhibited certain behaviors in childh... |