Verbiage “People move back in with their parents for a lot of reasons, and the trend is increasing due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic woes,” says study coauthor Lynsey Romo, an associate professor of communication at North Carolina State University. “We launched this study before the pandemic happened because we wanted to learn...

ATLANTA—There are 3,374 homeless and runaway youth in shelters, on the streets or in other precarious housing situations in the Atlanta metro area, according to the results of a project by Georgia State University and its partners to count and assess the area’s homeless youth. Eric Wright, professor of sociology and public health at Georgia...