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Voting rates among young people lag behind overall, and young men tend to vote at slightly lower rates than young women.

Test scores for California public school students are trending upward — especially among Latino, Black and low-income children — but still lag behind pre-pandemic scores with a majority of all students placing below grade-level standards in math, English and science, according to state data released Thursday.

“Unfortunately, we're seeing the US lag behind: We saw the European Union, Singapore, Hong Kong, the U.K. put different regulatory frameworks in place,” says Kirby of Crypto Council for Innovation.

Cancer survival rates in Wales and across the UK lag behind many developed countries.

Committees like the one in Georgia, set up in each state, often operate with a two-year lag behind the cases they examine, meaning that experts are only now beginning to delve into deaths that took place after the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion.