The government is increasing spending on broadband as the pandemic made stark that millions of Americans did not have access to, and could not afford, broadband at a time when jobs, school and health care was moving online.
U.S. educators are doing everything they can to track down high school students who stopped showing up to classes and to help them get the credits needed to graduate, amid an anticipated surge in the country’s dropout rate during the coronavirus pandemic.
As the SEMO food bank continues serving 70,000 people in 16 counties every month, Church hoped this new effort would give more people the ability to better provide for themselves and their families.
A handful of cities started offering shots to children ages 12 to 15 on Tuesday after the Food and Drug Administration gave the vaccine emergency use authorization for that age group.
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HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and KATHLEEN FOODY and SOPHIA TAREEN
