Author: News Polite

“Uno es consciente de que no debería existir esto”, dijo recientemente, acunando un rifle en su regazo. Pero después de dejar el ejército, comentó, le costaba llegar a fin de mes. Entonces recibió una oferta de un salario de 500 dólares mensuales, casi el doble del salario mínimo mensual de…

The result is a public health crisis on the scale of the opioid epidemic or obesity, Dr. Murthy said. In a 2018 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, one in five Americans said they always or often felt lonely or socially isolated. The pandemic only exacerbated these feelings. In a…

Every morning, Olga Boichak’s grandmother wakes up at her home in western Ukraine, turns on the television and discovers anew that her country is at war. Panicked and flashing back to childhood memories of bombings during World War II, she starts packing to evacuate, her granddaughter said. Her husband of…

In Washington County, Md., the rate of public school students who were chronically absent rose to about 38 percent during the first semester of this school year — more than double the rate from a comparable time period before the pandemic. The absences appear to have been driven in part…