Jul 16 What happened when some GOP-led states cut the $300 unemployment benefit By Courtney Vinopal Across the country, Americans who recently lost the extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits are weighing tough choices about returning to work. Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch 9:49 Sec. Haaland on healing from the indoctrination, dehumanization at Indian boarding schools Like Canada, America has a painful history of creating boarding schools to assimilate Native American children, leading to trauma, abuse and death. For more than 150 years, Indigenous children were taken from their families and forced into far away boarding… Continue watching
Jul 16 Watch 4:59 Can Americans resolve partisan divides to create a national child care system? By Cat Wise, Emily Carpeaux, Murrey Jacobson, Kate McMahon Over the past several days, the PBS NewsHour looked at America’s broken child care system and some of the programs trying to address the challenges. In this final part of our series “Raising the Future: America’s child care dilemma,” special… Continue watching
Jul 16 Watch 11:35 Brooks and Capehart on Indigenous boarding schools, Biden budget, child tax credit New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the assimilation of Indigenous students in Indian boarding schools, President Joe Biden's budget plan, the child tax credit,… Continue watching
Jul 16 Raising the Future: What history can teach us about child care in the U.S. By Cat Wise, Gretchen Frazee, Vika Aronson, Emily Carpeaux, Erica R. Hendry There’s a national debate brewing over child care in the U.S. sparked by decades of frustration over access and affordability—issues that have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. To understand where things stand today, we decided to explore the history… Continue reading
Jul 16 U.S. to send first vaccine doses to Africa in coming days By Zeke Miller, Matthew Lee, Associated Press The shipments come as part of an initial supply of 80 million doses that President Joe Biden had pledged to send out by the end of June, though deliveries were slowed by regulatory and logistical hurdles. Continue reading
Jul 16 ‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’ burdens busy U.S. hospitals By Heather Hollingsworth, Josh Funk, Associated Press With the highly contagious delta variant spreading rapidly across the country, cases in the U.S. are up about 70% over the last week, hospital admissions are up about 36% and deaths rose by 26%, according to the Centers for Disease… Continue reading
Jul 16 5 Stories: Manicures with microchips, Dorothy’s dress finds its way home and other stories you missed By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin A giant panda comeback, microchip manicures and Judy Garland’s “Wizard of Oz” isn’t in Kansas anymore. Check out these stories and others you might have missed on this week's episode of 5 Stories. Continue reading
Jul 16 WATCH: COVID-19 becoming ‘a pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ warns CDC director By News Desk and Associated Press The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. is becoming “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”… Continue reading
Jul 16 With virus cases rising, mask mandate back on in Los Angeles By Christopher Weber, John Antczak, Associated Press Los Angeles County will again require masks indoors even when people are vaccinated. The public health officer of the nation's largest county said there's now "substantial community transmission."… Continue reading