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WASHINGTON (AP) — A new plan from the Biden administration could increase salaries for thousands of low-paid early childhood teachers caring for some of the country’s poorest children, but might force some centers to reduce their enrollment. The Health and Human Services agency’s proposed federal rule would require Head Start programs, which are struggling nationwide [...]
The results of a market survey published this week reported a nearly $12.5 billion infusion into the Ohio economy in 2022 from wildlife-based recreation activities, such as hunting and fishing. Commissioned by the state Division of Wildlife, the survey focused primarily on Ohioans’ involvement in hunting, fishing, target shooting and wildlife viewing, according to a [...]
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological Survey has reported that the state’s mineral resources produced $1.7 billion worth of geologic commodities in 2022, making it the ninth straight year that the total value of all nonfuel industrial minerals exceeded the billion-dollar mark. The 2022 Report on Ohio Mineral Industries: An Annual Summary [...]
EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil paintings and jewel-studded incense burners. Outside the hand-hewn log sanctuary, however, dozens of miniature Alaska Native spirit houses sit by aging gravesites alongside Orthodox [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — International students attended American universities in surging numbers last year, rebounding from a pandemic slump with the help of a 35 percent jump in students coming from India, according to a study released earlier this week. Overall, the number of international students in the United States grew by 12 percent in the [...]
The human species has topped 8 billion, with longer lifespans offsetting fewer births, but world population growth continues a long-term trend of slowing down, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau estimates the global population exceeded the threshold Sept. 26, a precise date the agency said to take with a grain of salt. The [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — Along a busy Atlanta residential road, a 68-year-old Vietnam War-era Army veteran has found what he calls a "match made in heaven." Harold Tilson Jr. found himself homeless earlier this year but for the past few months has been living in transitional housing run by the non-profit Veterans Empowerment Organization, or VEO. [...]
After delaying college for two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jaden Todd said he wasn’t sure that a four-year school was the right place to start. “I was extremely concerned that I forgot how to learn,” he said. Community college appealed as a stepping stone, but he also had heard stories of students who [...]
First-class recreation centers in low-income neighborhoods — dozens of them, scattered around the nation — was the vision of Joan Kroc, billionaire philanthropist and heiress to the McDonald’s fortune of her husband, Ray. When she died in 2003, Joan Kroc surprised the Salvation Army when she left what amounted to $1.8 billion — roughly half [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government laid out hurricane reconstruction plans last week for the resort city of Acapulco that give as much priority to building military barracks as re-opening hotels. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he hoped owners would be able to reopen as many as 35 of the resort city’s 377 hotels [...]