📝📉 Eighth-graders' test scores in US history and civics both fell to their lowest levels on record last year, per a pair of new Education Department reports that represent the first such data since the start of the Covid pandemic.

👥 Yesterday, US health officials laid out a 6-step plan to combat America’s loneliness epidemic.

✉️🏦 In a letter to Congress yesterday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned the US gov’t could default on its debt as early as June 1, should Congress fail to reach an agreement on raising the debt ceiling before then.