The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released estimates of hesitancy rates for each county in the U.S. in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
The U.S. Census Bureauâs Household Pulse Survey was used to gather the data in conjunction with the bureau s 2019 American Community Survey 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). To create county-level estimates, the CDC used a PUMA-to-county crosswalk from the Missouri Census Data Center. PUMAs spanning multiple counties had their estimates apportioned across those counties based on overall 2010 Census populations. Courtesy of CDC
Counties throughout the country landed anywhere between 6-32% of estimated hesitancy with all of Vermontâs being on the lower end. In the Green Mountain State, Orleans, Essex, Caledonia, and Washington counties were all listed as being 8% hesitant while every other county in the state was listed as 7%.
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Hawaii Sees ‘Startling’ Increase In Number Of Children Facing Hunger - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii Sees ‘Startling’ Increase In Number Of Children Facing Hunger
Even as benefits programs expand and school meal programs shift, food insecurity is expected to continue to grow in the islands. Reading time: 7 minutes.
More Hawaii children are at risk of going hungry than ever before, new federal data shows.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Hawaii’s hunger rates were lower than national averages. Today, the Aloha State’s situation is worse than national levels a striking shift, according to local researchers.
“The rates were roughly in the 10% ball park pre-COVID, and they’re close to 50% currently,” said Jack Barile, the interim director of the University of Hawaii Manoa’s Social Science Research Institute. “The majority of people facing food insecurity now are facing it for the first time or in recent history, so that’s kind of startling.”
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As COVID-19 struck the United States in March 2020, sending the nation into lockdown, worry about the fate of private schools was high. These schools, which only survive if people can pay for them, seemed to face deep trouble. Many private schools have thin financial margins even in good economic times and rely not only on tuition but also on fundraisers, such as in‐person auctions, to make ends meet. When the pandemic hit, many such events were canceled, and churches no longer met in person, threatening contributions that help support some private schools. Simultaneously, many private schooling families faced tighter finances, making private schooling less affordable. Finally, families that could still afford private schooling might have concluded that continuing to pay for education that was going to be online‐only made little sense.