The nation’s last refuge for affordable homes is in Ohio
Youngstown is one of the last two metro areas in the country where a household with nearly any income should be able to find a single-family home they can afford...
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What did that highway sign say? States gets creative, but feds warn of confusion
As summer vacation season gets going, you can expect to find more puns on those massive highway safety signs.
Death counts remain high in some states even as COVID fatalities wane
Several months after the end of the national emergency for COVID-19, preliminary health data indicates the historic degree to which the pandemic increased death rates nationwide — not just because...
Fertility health coverage is still hard to come by in many states
As fertility rates drop and more women postpone childbirth into their 30s and 40s, more states are considering mandating that private insurers cover fertility treatments to help people start a...
A ‘she-cession’ no more: After COVID dip, women’s employment hits all-time high
In June, the national share of employed women ages 25-54, considered prime working age, hit 75.3%, the highest recorded since the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey started reporting the...
To prevent gun suicide, states consider allowing people to deny themselves a gun
As lawmakers and mental health advocates wrestle with how to stop the avalanche of suicides by firearm in this country, some are looking to a novel idea at work in...
Urban areas are adding people and gobbling up land in most states
The percentage of residents living in areas the U.S. Census Bureau calls "urban" grew in 36 states between 2010 and 2020, led by booming cities and suburbs in the South,...
Desechando la política, los migrantes a menudo usan autobuses y aviones para encontrar refugio
A pesar de que algunos gobernadores republicanos usan los autobuses de migrantes para tratar de avergonzar a los demócratas, el transporte de los migrantes desde las zonas fronterizas hasta los...
Texas y Arizona envían a indocumentados a ciudades demócratas, pero muchos se quedan en estados republicanos
Desde abril, miles de migrantes han llegado en autobús a la ciudad de New York y a Washington, DC, enviados al norte por los gobernadores republicanos de Texas y Arizona...
GOP governors bus migrants to blue cities, but many exit in red states
Since April, thousands of migrants have arrived by bus in New York City and Washington, D.C., sent north by Republican governors in Texas and Arizona as a political gambit to...