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US Losing Fitch’s Top AAA Credit Rating may Portend Future Economic Weakness

The formerly pristine reputation of the U.S. government’s debt lost a little more luster after another prominent rating agency demoted Uncle Sam from its AAA perch.

Mission Trips are an Evangelical Rite of Passage for US Teens – but Why? | Opinion

According to some estimates, as many as 2 million youth and adults per year participated in Christian mission trips before the pandemic.

Why No Living People Appear on US Postage Stamps

Had living persons been allowed to appear on U.S. coins, stamps and banknotes, it would have been possible to depict U.S. citizens who would go on to become traitors to the nation.

Funding for 33 Rural Broadband Projects Unveiled by USDA

The Biden administration on Monday announced it will send $714 million to help rural areas in Georgia and 18 other states connect to the internet.

Mounting Research Documents the Harmful Effects of Social Media Use on Mental Health, Including Body Image and Development of Eating Disorders

Media influences and conventional beauty standards have long plagued society.

This issue took on new urgency in May 2023 when the U.S. surgeon general issued a major public advisory over the links between social media and youth mental health.

Despite the End of Title 42, Restrictions on Asylum Seekers Are Expected to Continue Under Biden Administration

A Trump administration immigration order, Title 42, that allowed U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants at the U.S. southern border – with no exceptions for asylum-seekers – expires May 11, 2023.

Obesity in Children Is Rising Dramatically, and It Comes With Major – and Sometimes Lifelong – Health Consequences

In the past two decades, children have become more obese and have developed obesity at a younger age.

U.S. Interior Secretary Unveils $125 Million for Local Climate Projects

The U.S. Interior Department will send $125 million from the bipartisan infrastructure law to scores of local climate resiliency and conservation projects, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland told a group of environmental reporters Friday.

EPA Sued Over Failure to Set, Update Pollution Limits

However, for 40 of the 59 industries subject to the pollution limits, the standards were “last updated 30 or more years ago, and 17 of those date back to the 1970s,” the EIP says.