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Chronic absenteeism climbs to record numbers in NYC schools

NEW YORK — An unprecedented 350,000 public school students in New York City repeatedly missed school last year, a harrowing sign of learning loss that is hitting the city’s most vulnerable children especially hard.

Tribune News Service

Glasgow Wetherspoon gets permanent beer garden in George Square

Outdoor areas at the pub have been operating under occasional licences since the covid pandemic and now the arrangement has been made permanent.

Glasgow Live

Pandemic finger-pointing: New research sheds light on who Canadians blame in times of crisis

A little over a year ago, thousands of people descended on Ottawa protesting COVID-19 pandemic countermeasures as part of a “freedom convoy.”

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RFL eager for World Club Challenge to become annual fixture

The competition returned this season after a two-year absence due to the Covid pandemic and is currently negotiated on an ad hoc basis

The Independent UK

For poor schools, building repairs zap COVID relief money

The federal government has allocated $190 billion in pandemic relief to help schools

The Independent UK

3 things the pandemic taught us about inequality in college — and why they matter today

Elise, a nursing student at an elite U.S. university in the Northeast, found herself back home and sleeping on the floor of her parents’ one-bedroom apartment after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020.

The Conversation

Long COVID is preventing professionals from working

Three years after the pandemic began and COVID-19 still has its grip on America’s workforce.

Fortune

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After staying away during pandemic, doctors return to lobby Congress

WASHINGTON — Dr. Timothy McAvoy, an internist from Waukesha, Wisconsin, held his infant granddaughter last Tuesday while standing in the Longworth House Office Building, waiting to talk to a congressional aide about increasing Medicare pay for doctors.

Tribune News Service

Inside fire-torn abandoned Victorian mansion whose owners fled during Covid

The grand Victorian mansion and former wedding venue has now been left abandoned, strewn with graffiti and damaged by fire after closing during the Covid pandemic

Daily Mirror

Russia's War in Ukraine Threatens Starvation for the World's Poor

Global hunger declined for decades before pandemic policies and Russia’s invasion broke the world.

Reason

Commentary: Changes in grading and homework policies are turning education upside down

As bad as the pandemic was for student learning, if some current education fads continue, the future could be worse.

Chicago Tribune

How grown-ups can help kids transition to 'post-pandemic' school life

As children continue to navigate the most "normal" school year since the pandemic, 2023's School Counselor of the Year shares some advice.

WEKU

NHS staff ‘shattered’ and 'won't be there' if crisis not fixed, warns expert

Professor Jeremy Farrar, who became a well known face during the Covid pandemic, warned that exhausted and demoralised NHS staff would not be ready when another a crisis hits unless low morale and capacity issues solved

Daily Mirror

What it’s really like to take a European night train

Over the past few years, much has been made about the renaissance of the European night train. A while back, I gave sleeper trains’ newfound head of steam a shout-out in a broader story on the healthy status of European rail back in early 2020 — right before the travel…

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Union leaders warned 8500 jobs could be at risk by cuts in arts industry

Eight unions representing actors, musicians, artists, writers, crew and technicians called for a rethink over £7m cuts in the arts agency’s grant…

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: How can we boost COVID-19 economic recovery? End the tourist visa backlog

There’s a good chance that Main Street in your hometown looks different from how it did three years ago, whether that’s in Illinois or elsewhere in the U.S. Perhaps your favorite restaurant has closed, or your barber never reopened after lockdowns. For communities whose economic success is tied to tourism…

Caixin Global

Editorial: Disable China’s ‘Health Codes' as Soon as Possible

The government should shut down this tool for controlling the pandemic and destroy all related personal data to protect residents’ information

The Guardian - UK

A new start after 60: I was shattered by the pandemic. Then I learned how to be alone

Sue Gee spent her whole life looking for a sense of belonging, but it was only after she joined a women’s community that she finally discovered how to be happy in her own company

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WEKU

A record 6,542 guns — 18 a day — were intercepted at U.S. airport security in 2022

With the exception of pandemic-disrupted 2020, the number of weapons intercepted at U.S. airport checkpoints has climbed every year since 2010.

The Guardian - UK

‘There may still be surprises’: Jeremy Farrar warns of pandemic perils ahead

As the former Sage adviser leaves Wellcome to join WHO, he talks about exhausted health workers, the UK’s sluggish response to Covid and the danger of conspiracy theories

ABC News

Fears for 'invisible' young people forced home by COVID-19 pandemic and stuck there due to cost of living

A new report finds one-in-five young people have felt it was difficult or "not beneficial" living with their parents, yet COVID-19 restrictions have forced them to head home. One youth worker is worried about those still stuck there due to the cost of living and housing crisis.

ABC News

Share houses make comeback as rental crisis continues and people lease out spare rooms

The demand for share houses is back to pre-pandemic levels as vacancy rates sit at historic lows and rent and cost-of-living pressures eat into Australians' budgets.

AAP

Treasurer questions viability of super tax breaks

Jim Chalmers has kept the door open to an overhaul of super tax concessions as he looks for opportunities to repair the stretched federal budget.

Nottingham Post

Nottinghamshire's worst-rated schools revealed in new map

The Government said the Covid pandemic has had a 'huge impact on pupils' learning'

Tribune News Service

DeSantis is trying to turn Trump’s biggest win into a liability

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is betting he can use one of Donald Trump's biggest successes to turn voters against the former president.

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