US crime has dropped sharply since the pandemic. Here’s where it stands.

Homicide rates have undergone the most striking change, with some of the nation’s 52 largest cities recording the fewest ...

The pandemic’s hidden toll: millions of chronic conditions left undiagnosed

Pandemic disruption caused diagnosis rates to plummet for many conditions – and some still haven’t recovered five years later.

The post-pandemic era has sent the high-end watch market into a slump that analysts say could last a decade

Industry experts told Business Insider that 2021-2022 was probably the top of the market, and luxury watch prices won't see a ...
Crain's Detroit Business

Downtown parking garages were abandoned in the pandemic. Some are still struggling.

Earlier this week, the redemption period on a judicial foreclosure of a downtown Detroit parking garage at 200 Beaubien St. next to the Renaissance Center expired, one of the few times during the ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Five years later, students and educators in New Mexico are still recovering from pandemic impact

It’s been more than five years since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. without warning and changed the lives of students and educators in New Mexico. Starting in the 2019-20 school year, the ...
U.S. News & World Report

Fed's Barkin: Consumers Are Spending, but Not as Flush as in Pandemic Years

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Consumers continue to spend given low unemployment and wage gains, but are more constrained than during the pandemic years, Richmond Fed president Thomas Barkin said on Thursday.
Times of San Diego

Five years on, downtown’s post-pandemic resurrection is mixed

DOWNTOWN – The Museum of Illusions, a recent edutainment entry in the Gaslamp, was filled with a diverse crowd on a Friday last month. Inside a room at the Museum of Illusions San Diego where a tilted ...
American Enterprise Institute

Teacher and Student Absences Before and After the Pandemic

In Rhode Island and other states, teacher and student absences rose during the COVID pandemic and then partially receded, demonstrating a shift in attendance patterns in which teacher absences might ...

Wall Street heads for best investment banking year since pandemic

The five largest US investment banks — JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup — are ...
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Gas prices hit lowest since the pandemic as holiday travel spikes

Gas is suddenly the rare bright spot in a year of stubborn prices, with the national average slipping to its lowest point since the early pandemic years just as millions of Americans prepare to hit ...