Since the monthly payments from the expanded Child Tax Credit expired at the end of 2021, nearly 3.7 million more children are in poverty, according to a new study from Columbia University.
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This 16-year-old wanted to get the COVID vaccine. He had to hide it from his parents
A November 2021 Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 30% of parents with 12- to 17-year-olds said they will definitely not vaccinate their children.
The first answer for food insecurity: data sovereignty
A new report shows tribal communities have adapted to meet the needs of their people in ways that state and federal governments can’t.
The FDA postpones a highly anticipated meeting on the Pfizer vaccine for young kids
The scheduled meeting would have looked at only the first two shots in the immunization series, not the data for all three shots — an unorthodox move that might have gotten the authorization moving faster.
An unexpected item is blocking cities’ climate change prep: obsolete rainfall records
Rainfall reports for some states are 50 years old, which means they don’t reflect how the climate has already changed in recent decades.
Why NASA’s new space telescope is pointed at the Big Dipper
Cooling the telescope to about minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit will let it see objects that are far more distant and faint than what the Hubble telescope can see.