Texas Public Radio

North East ISD trustees use HB 2 to give San Antonio teachers raises, shrink deficit

North East ISD trustees have approved a compensation package for the 2025-2026 school year. Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each ...
PC World

Microsoft’s tiny new Surface Laptop and Pro shrink in other ways, too

Smaller Surfaces have finally arrived. Microsoft is announcing smaller, less powerful revisions of the Microsoft Surface Pro tablet and Surface Laptop, all built around a more conservative version of ...
Eat This%2c Not That!

Here’s How Long Your Incline Walking Workout Should Be To Shrink Belly Fat

This low-impact workout is a metabolism-boosting powerhouse. Unlike flat walking, incline walking ramps up the intensity, forcing your body to work harder, increasing calorie burn, and engaging more ...
International Monetary Fund

A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...
MarketWatch

Social Security’s COLA could shrink to 2.5% for 2025, the lowest increase since 2021

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2025 could shrink to 2.5% as inflation cools, analysts estimated on Wednesday. That’s down from this year’s 3.2% increase and the 8.7% jump in 2023.
extension.iastate.edu

Beef cow herd to shrink for years to come

Have you ever contemplated what The Three Little Pigs, The Three Blind Mice, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Musketeers, The Three Wise Men and The Three Stooges have in common? The rule of ...
International Monetary Fund

Gloomy and More Uncertain

A tentative recovery in 2021 has been followed by increasingly gloomy developments in 2022 as risks began to materialize. Global output contracted in the second quarter of this year, owing to ...
World Bank

Global Growth to Slow through 2023, Adding to Risk of ‘Hard Landing’ in Developing Economies

Spread of COVID-19 Variants Alongside Inflation, Debt, and Inequality Intensifies Uncertainty WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2022—Following a strong rebound in 2021, the global economy is entering a pronounced ...
World Bank

COVID-19: Remittance Flows to Shrink 14% by 2021

WASHINGTON, October 29, 2020 — As the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis continues to spread, the amount of money migrant workers send home is projected to decline 14 percent by 2021 compared to ...
PBS

U.N. forecasts pandemic to shrink world economy by 3.2%

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations forecast Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the world economy by 3.2% this year, the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression in the 1930s ...
Associated Press

UN forecasts pandemic to shrink world economy by 3.2%

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A migrant laborer’s family ia silhouetted as ...