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Increased household responsibilities during the pandemic have forced many working mothers to scale back on their hours or to leave the workforce entirely.

Almost A Year Into The Pandemic, Working Moms Feel 'Forgotten,' Journalist Says

Claire Cain Miller says many working moms have scaled back on their hours or left the workforce entirely in response to new household burdens. "There were never the structures in place to help us."

People wait in long lines at an H-E-B grocery store in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. The large supermarket chain said the "unprecedented weather event in Texas has caused a severe disruption in the food supply chain."

Several Days Into The Texas Deep Freeze, Food Is Scarce

Amid power and water shutdowns, the extreme cold is disrupting the food supply. Customers are finding empty grocery shelves across Texas and people desperate to stock up are forming long lines.

Amanda Bordeaux, 36, gets her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine during a weekly mass vaccination clinic at the Rosebud hospital in South Dakota.

Why Native Americans Are Getting COVID-19 Vaccines Faster

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is vaccinating its community at rates faster than the rest of South Dakota. That mirrors a trend in Indian Country, which has been hard-hit by the coronavirus.

A sign outside a U.S. Social Security Administration office in Mount Prospect, Ill., in October last year. Closed SSA offices across the country are being blamed for a 30 percent drop in applications for an aid program for the most vulnerable.

Huge Drop In Federal Aid For The Poorest Is Blamed On Closed Social Security Offices

It's estimated that more than 120,000 low-income Americans have missed out on payments.

The Local Take: Find A Way or Make One-A Documentary History of Clark Atlanta University

This week on WCLK's The Local Take(Saturdays 8am), I'm speaking with Dr. Jenny L. Jones, Dean and Professor at the Whitney M. Young, Jr. School of Social…

Keith Rowley, the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, has called for global vaccine distribution based on models of "sharing and caring" that provide equitable access to small countries like his and "benefit of all humankind and not just the privileged, well-heeled few."

Price Check: Nations Pay Wildly Different Prices For Vaccines

The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago gave an impassioned speech about the vaccine rollout, warning of hoarding and price gouging. Here's what we could find out about the cost of a dose.

Ordinary items such as bicycles or hair extensions are gaining symbolic significance as we use them to project to a time when we can finally use them with others or show them off.

A Bicycle. A Trip. Or Just Pants: The Things We Buy When Pining For Normal Times

Even the most mundane purchases are becoming objects of hope as we crave the routines and experiences of daily life in this period of isolation.

Molina Richards promised her friend that she wouldn't let anyone forget her daughter, Waniyetu Rose Loves War, who died in 2019.

Human Trafficking Crisis In Indian Country 'Like A Pandemic'

Of the 109 people currently listed as missing in South Dakota, 77 of them are indigenous. The state's legislature passed a bill this week to address the alarming crisis on and off reservations.

Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., where workers are voting on whether to unionize.

High Stakes At A Warehouse: Amazon Fights Against Alabama Union Drive

A vote by workers on whether to form Amazon's first unionized warehouse in the U.S. has the community, labor groups and the company on the edge of their seats.

March 18: The Local Take Joins With AARP Georgia For Virtual Town Hall On COVID-19 Vaccine, Issues

Next week on March 18th, WCLK's The Local Take joins with AARP Georgia for a COVID19 Virtual Townhall.Fiscal, Mental, and Physical health experts will…

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