social science

“Worse than Jimmy Carter” is an epithet Republicans often throw at Democratic presidents. It’s a label, though, that Joe Biden clearly deserves on imm...

If those walls could talk. If only the floors could say who walked across them, carrying towels, suitcases, or boxes. Would the doors say who slammed ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Despite a robust economy, the U.S. budget deficit is poised to double over the next year — to an eye-watering $2 trillion. As bad as ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When we think of workers on Labor Day, who comes to mind? Chances are, it’s not the millions of older workers still toiling in our na...

The evidence continues to accumulate that America’s nonprofit sector is failing the country in some basic ways. Specifically, it is not doing enough t...

Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll made an adept analogy recently when he compared the ongoing transition to electric vehicles to the ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s curious: Even as America’s economic trends are improving, Americans’ economic anxieties are worsening — including those of many ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There’s an economic calamity approaching: At the end of September, pandemic-era federal funding for child care will expire, potential...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Trust is always harder to build than to destroy, and that’s true for financial markets, too. The U.S. has borrowed tens of trillion...

MIDDLETOWN — A Mega Millions ticket worth $1 million was sold at the Nittany Mini Mart on Route 6 in Smethport. A Mega Millions ticket worth $5 millio...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey, D-Pa., led his colleagues Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Budget Com...

UNIVERSITY PARK — At a time when Pennsylvania is largely counting on riparian buffers to achieve water-quality improvements needed to meet the state’s...

Campaign talk is cheap, but if President Joe Biden meant any of his 2020 talk of uniting Americans, he’s clearly succeeding, just not in the way he in...

The nine-day manhunt for Warren County Jail escapee Michael Burham ended on Saturday evening without incident. Burham is now residing in the Erie Coun...

President Biden wants to persuade Americans that the economy is better than they think — and that he deserves credit for turning it around. He’s calli...

The Supreme Court just acted to get rid of decades-long practices at colleges and universities that have been an illegal, unconstitutional, unprincipl...

WARREN — Northern Pennsylvania Regional College (NPRC) is hosting a virtual Information Session from 7 to 8 p.m. July 18. Those interested in attendin...

HARRISBURG — The Lead-Free Promise Project issued the following statement in response to the final 2023-24 Pennsylvania budget passed Wednesday night:...

A new poll found that less than two-thirds of young adults in Pennsylvania feel national pride. The results from a recent survey — conducted by the Bu...

The Biden administration has a proclivity for choosing people with abysmal track records for top political appointments. Consider Jared Bernstein. A c...