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By Collin Binkley and Hannah Fingerhut | The Associated Press December 6, 2021 Isolation. Anxiety. Uncertainty. The stresses of the coronavirus pandemic have taken a toll on Americans of all ages, but a new poll finds that teens and young adults have faced some of the heaviest struggles as they come of age during a time of…

By Christopher Rugaber and Hannah Fingerhut | The Associated Press December 9, 2021 WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ overall income has accelerated since the pandemic, but so has inflation — and a new poll finds that far more people are noticing the higher prices than the pay gains. Two-thirds say their household costs have risen since…

By Barbara Ortutay | The Associated Press December 14, 2021 When it comes to household duties such as changing diapers, handling chores and meals and managing family schedules and activities, many couples who don’t have children expect that they will more or less share the work equally should they have kids one day. The reality…

By Luis Andres Henao, Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, and David Crary | The Associated Press December 14, 2021 Nathalie Charles, even in her mid-teens, felt unwelcome in her Baptist congregation, with its conservative views on immigration, gender and sexuality. So she left. “I just don’t feel like that gelled with my view of what God is…

By Farnoush Amiri | The Associated Press December 16, 2021 WASHINGTON (AP) — There are plenty of reasons for Sebastian Garcia to feel downbeat about the future. After his family immigrated from Mexico, he was raised on a farm in northwest Texas, where he says there aren’t many racial slurs he hasn’t heard. When the…