Tag: COVID
For several years before the pandemic, everyone became complacent about an inflation rate hovering reliably around 2 percent. We were jolted from our torpor by the COVID spike in inflation to nearly 9 percent. Although inflation has come down sharply, the 3 percent rise over the past year is still above pre-pandemic levels. Higher…
Here is just some of what decades of research has revealed about poverty’s ill effects on children: lower birth weights and more obesity, diabetes, asthma, anxiety, smoking, depression, and intellectual disabilities, as well as lower college attendance and a greater likelihood of entering the criminal justice system. And then there is the negative fallout if…
