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The health care system is hemorrhaging medical lab workers, in part because of COVID-19 infections and also because of burnout, low wages and better opportunities elsewhere.
Student loan forgiveness doesn’t benefit the economy the way some advocates believe it would, an economist argues.
How and where people spend their money and use energy can influence corporate behavior.
More than 100 world leaders have pledged to end the destruction of forests by 2030 as a way to slow climate change. That will require changing how the world produces four widely used commodities.
Vaccination campaigns like the ones that eventually eliminated polio and measles in the United States required decades of education and awareness in order to achieve herd immunity in the U.S. population.
The Satanic Temple, a nontheistic group, is invoking the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to challenge Texas’ new anti-abortion law.
A scholar of nutrition opens up with a personal take on food insecurity in America.
Colleges and universities are using federal money to clear their students’ debt. An economist explains who will benefit from this move.
Detecting food insecurity requires more than assessing what’s in your refrigerator or measuring the distance between your home and the closest supermarket.
Student loan debt has long been considered a drag on the economy. But will canceling it actually do much to spur spending? An economist weighs in.
The US has split into “two Americas,” one of the unvaccinated and one of the vaccinated. The differences in deaths and hospitalizations between the two populations are striking.
Multiple difficult childhood experiences can lead to depression and anxiety during college, research has found. Lack of support often makes things worse.
Thanks to shifting tastes and improvements to the brewing process, more craft brewers are offering low-alcohol and nonalcoholic options – and are going toe to toe with America’s beer giants.
Child care insecurity has received much less attention than food insecurity, but it is similarly complex. And affordability is only one part of the problem.
Picture books and young adult biographies can introduce kids to design-based thinking and engineering habits like creativity and persistence.
Prevention may be the best way to cope with the worldwide wave of treatment-resistant fungal pathogens.
Flood plain statistics can be confusing. There are better ways to think about the risk of severe weather than 100-year storm or flood.
This year summer schools will have to figure out how to tend to the emotional and academic needs of students coming out of remote learning.
In a Japanese tree burial, cremated remains are placed in the ground and a tree is planted over the ashes to mark the gravesite. Environmental responsibility is part of Buddhism.
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Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Texas State University
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Associate Professor of Geography, Texas State University
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Assistant Professor of Management, Texas State University
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Director of the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
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Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University
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Senior Lecturer of English, Texas State University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Associate Professor of English, Texas State University
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Texas State University
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Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Texas State University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas State University
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Regents' Professor & Chair, Medical Laboratory Science, Texas State University
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Professor of Psychology, Texas State University
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Associate Professor of Finance, Texas State University
