Covid and the pandemic response have pressured provide chains and changed the nature of input demand. Inflation has risen with Federal and monetary policy doing small to limit that inflation. Europe undertook policies to replace fossil fuels that elevated reliance on organic gas and Russia as a all-natural gas supplier....
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Regionally, births shrunk by roughly 1 % from 2014 to 2019, but some counties in fact saw an improve in the number of babies born. But the magnitude of that decline differs substantially by area, offering additional insight into exactly where, and why, some Virginians are choosing to have kids....