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January 31, 2022 1:16 PM

Grandparenting during the pandemic

Grandparents have always stepped up to support grandchildren, but during the pandemic that love looks a bit different. Tuesday, host Angela Davis talks with two grandmothers — a journalist and an early childhood education leader — about how elders are providing child care and trying to bridge the distance on Zoom.

by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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January 31, 2022 5:01 AM

Will millennials ever retire?

Baby boomers and Gen X are looking forward to retirement. But millennials are agonizing over making and saving enough to retire. Why? Is there anything young people can do now so they can retire later?

by Angela Davis and Susan Davis

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January 28, 2022 9:33 AM

Who were the Vikings, really?

How about those Vikings? Not the football team. We’re talking about the ancient voyagers and raiders from the North. MPR News host Angela Davis talked with a Minnesota historian and an archeologist in the U.K. about Vikings in popular imagination and new research that challenges old ideas about who they were and where they went.

by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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January 27, 2022 1:18 PM

How the pandemic has changed our cities

The pandemic is changing the way our cities look and operate. Remote work has changed commute patterns and raised questions about how we use downtown spaces, our streets and more. MPR News host Angela Davis explores how the pandemic has redesigned our cities and whether those changes are here to stay.

by Angela Davis and Samantha Matsumoto

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January 25, 2022 3:28 PM

How the recovery community is surviving the pandemic

For people in recovery, the pandemic presented some familiar and some new problems. And while the opioid epidemic continues to grow, access and affordability of rehab and counseling continues to be a challenge for many people. Host Angela Davis speaks with experts on entering or staying in recovery during the ongoing pandemic.

by Angela Davis and Susan Davis

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January 25, 2022 9:20 AM

Child-free by choice: Why more people are deciding not to have children

More people say they don’t plan on having children, and they are making that decision for a variety of reasons, from climate change to simply not wanting kids. MPR News host Angela Davis talks with a sociology professor and an author about why more people are choosing not to have children.

by Angela Davis and Samantha Matsumoto

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January 24, 2022 3:35 PM

How to spend less when everything costs more

We’re paying about 90 cents more per gallon of gas compared to a year ago. Inflation hit 7 percent last year overall, affecting everything from food to furniture. MPR News host Angela Davis talks with personal finance experts about how to save money when consumer goods cost more.

by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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January 20, 2022 1:42 PM

Can we help kids learn to love math?

Math performance on standardized tests has been dropping for years and worsened during the pandemic. As the state of Minnesota prepares to revise its math standards for the first time since 2007, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with math educators about the importance of numeracy and how to help children love and understand math.

by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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January 20, 2022 12:04 PM

Is the pandemic causing us to behave badly?

The prolonged stress, uncertainty and grief of the pandemic is making people angry — and some of them are taking it out in public. MPR News host Angela Davis talks about the increase in pandemic bad behavior with a New York Times journalist. And she talks about the causes of our anger and how to better manage it with a psychologist and an advice columnist.

by Angela Davis and Samantha Matsumoto

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January 19, 2022 2:18 PM

How to strengthen your relationship during the pandemic

MPR News guest host Twila Dang talks with a relationships and dating writer and a marriage and family therapist about navigating love and strengthening our relationships during the pandemic.

by Twila Dang and Samantha Matsumoto

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