Archive for October 2025

WFP distributes food to the residents of gang-affected Cité Soleil, in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince

In Hong Kong, around 20 per cent of secondary school students exhibit moderate to severe depression, anxiety and stress, but nearly half are reluctant to reach out when facing mental health issues. Above: Joe Tang, a social worker and the centre-in-charge of Hong Kong Christian Service’s online addiction counselling centre.

The government shutdown isn’t the only development that could cut access to SNAP. The broad policy and tax law that Congress passed and Trump signed in July also calls for changes to the program. Adults with children from 14 to 17 will no longer be exempt from a work requirement to receive benefits, and neither will people ages 55 through 64. Those policies are in effect now, and some people could begin losing coverage around the start of January.

MetroHealth will soon close a psychiatric emergency department it opened just last year in Cleveland Heights. The department was staffed 24/7 with psychiatrists and behavioral-health-trained nurses and social workers.

Faced with an uncertain future, young Canadians are racking up more debt than ever before. Portrait of a generation on the instalment plan.

Federal datasets have been manipulated and removed since the beginning of the current administration and continue to be under threat. In this piece, three data experts explain the critical consequences of this loss.