Jul 18 With pandemic worsening in US, surgeon general worried By Jay Reeves, Associated Press Noting that nearly all coronavirus deaths now are among the tens of millions of people who haven't received shots, despite widespread vaccine availability, Dr. Vivek Murthy painted an unsettling picture of what the future could hold. Continue reading
Jul 17 Watch 6:34 COVID-19 update: the delta variant, school openings and more By PBS NewsHour The COVID-19 delta variant has been surging worldwide and in certain areas of the U.S. What will this mean for school openings, and for children not yet eligible for vaccines? And how are vaccine efforts going in America? ProPublica reporter… Continue watching
Jul 17 Biden pledges appeal of 'deeply disappointing' DACA ruling By Associated Press President Joe Biden said Saturday that the Justice Department intends to appeal a federal judge’s ruling deeming illegal an Obama-era program that has protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation and he renewed his calls for Congress to create a permanent… Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch 7:49 Arkansas hospitals expect COVID admissions to double by August due to the unvaccinated The White House warned Friday about a surge of COVID cases in some states and the connection with low vaccination rates and misinformation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported about 33,000 new cases Thursday — up from a… Continue watching
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