Equal Pay Day marks how far into the new year full-time female workers have to keep working to make what their male counterparts typically made in just the previous year .

Women in the U.S. who work full time are still typically paid 83 cents for every dollar paid to men.

At this rate, it could take 134 years to close the global gender pay gap.

23 measles cases have been reported in six Kansas counties, up from 10 cases on March 21 .

The cases now span the counties of Grant, Gray, Haskell , Kiowa , Morton , and Stevens .

Twenty of the 23 cases were unvaccinated.

Many of the counties have areas with extremely low vaccination rates.

In 2023 , the average woman working full time made a little more than $ 55,000 while the average man made nearly $67,000 .

That wage gap of 83 cents to the dollar has barely budged since 2003 and it’s even widened slightly.

Women employed in the U.S. lose a combined total of nearly $1.7 trillion each year due to the wage gap.

Several states have passed laws that aim to help even the playing field for women in the workforce.

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 sets a national precedent for equal pay for equal work, too, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission oversees workplace discrimination complaints.

But enforcement of these laws is always a challenge, advocates say.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

As of 2023 , Mississippi ranks among the top 20 for fourth grade reading, a significant leap from 49th-place ranking in 2013 .

This transformation was driven by evidence-based policy reforms focused on early literacy and teacher development.

When students struggle, their academic performance declines and that leads to lower test scores.

The Mississippi literacy project focuses on teaching at the right level, which focuses on assessing children's actual learning levels and then tailoring instruction to meet them, rather than strictly following age- or grade-level curriculum. Teaching at the right level and a scripted lesson plan are among the most effective strategies to address the global learning crisis. After the World Bank reviewed over 150 education programs in 2020 , nearly half showed no learning benefit. I believe Mississippi 's progress, despite being the second -poorest state, can serve as a wake-up call. Provided by The Conversation.

Coral diseases, particularly in the Caribbean , have caused major declines in coral populations, especially affecting staghorn ( Acropora cervicornis) and Elkhorn (A. palmata) corals.

Coral restoration programs aim to restore these once-abundant coral species, but the effectiveness is threatened by multiple stressors, including increases in disease frequency and nutrient pollution caused from runoff from land-based activities.

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez called this the "largest tax cut in state history" and said it would save Floridians around $5 billion yearly .

Florida is deemed one of the most tax friendly states, with no state income tax.

Florida 's cost of living has surged in recent years due to the uptick in residents, causing everything from housing to food prices to get higher.

The Leyte Chorus Frog is a small, ground-dwelling frog from Leyte Island in the Visayan province of the eastern Philippines .

It was first discovered in 1954 , then not seen again for decades despite a concerted hunt by researchers.

A report from the University of Kansas confirms that it's a hybrid of two species with overlapping ranges whose intermingling likely was driven by deforestation.

Leyte Chorus Frogs were particularly interesting because their two parent species look and act so differently.

Researchers determined the hybrid isn't a distinct species and doesn't warrant its own scientific name.

Its rarity comes down to the fact that it cannot reproduce and is an evolutionary dead end.

U of T’s first female president says she will lead with ambition despite headwinds.

Melanie Woodin will succeed current president Meric Gertler on July 1 .

Woodin is a neuroscientist and the current dean of the faculty of arts and sciences.

She says she is “deeply honoured” to be chosen to lead the school into its third century .

A Chinese Academy of Sciences research team has uncovered a novel genetic mechanism that controls grain size and yield in rice.

The study, published in PNAS, was a collaboration between CAS and Hainan University .

It reveals how three critical components— OsMED23 , OsJMJ703, and OsWOX3A —work together to influence rice grain development.

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago .

This finding is the closest look ever at hot molecular gas near a black hole from such an early time in the universe.

The study suggests that many black holes may remain hidden behind dust but could be uncovered by this new observational approach.

The discovery had significant implications for our understanding of black holes in the early universe.