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Hanna Hensley, 29, an assistant high school teacher in Arlington, Va., is glad to see some food prices come down recently, because it has helped ease her grocery bill. When egg prices shot up to around $5 a carton a few months ago, she stopped buying them. But on Sunday, while shopping at a Giant […]
NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) – U.S. stocks have defied fears of a recession, a banking crisis and soaring Treasury yields to rise 20% from their October lows – one definition of a bull market.
Overall, the unemployment rate among Latinos decreased in May. Meanwhile, unemployment for Black workers overall increased in May. The monthly jobs report is made up of two surveys: the payroll survey of employers and the household survey. Steve Debenport | E+ | Getty Images The U.S. unemployment rate rose in May, but declined for Hispanic […]
Rome/Brussels/New York/Washington, D.C. – The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and people in seven countries on the brink of starvation, according to the latest Global Report on […]
The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest annual mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, there were 1,732 gun deaths among U.S. children […]
Historic reductions in U.S. prison populations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately benefitted white people, and the fraction of incarcerated Black and Latino people “sharply . . .
Maternal mortality rates jumped in the US between 2020 and 2021 Shutterstock/mikumistock The US saw a 40 per cent rise in maternal death rates from 2020 to 2021, according to a report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This sharp increase builds on a trend of steadily rising maternal deaths over […]
CNN — As women continue to die due to pregnancy or childbirth each year in the United States, new federal data shows that the nation’s maternal death rate rose significantly yet again in 2021, with the rates among Black women more than twice as high as those of White women.
Wanda Irving holds her granddaughter, Soleil, in front of a portrait of Soleil’s mother, Shalon Irving, at her home in Sandy Springs, Ga., in 2017. Wanda is raising Soleil since Shalon died of complications due to hypertension a few weeks after giving birth. Becky Harlan/NPR hide caption toggle caption Becky Harlan/NPR Wanda Irving holds her […]
Despite a record low infant mortality rate in 2020, a new study finds an unexpected jump in unexplained deaths in Black infants during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. The rate of SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, increased by 15% in a single year, from 33.3 deaths per 100,000 babies born in 2019 […]