Tips for Saving on Back-to-School Shopping | Schools Renewing Focus on Career Education Amid Labor Shortage

Officials on Maui are defending their actions during and after Maui's deadly wildfires, as CBS News questions their response and whereabouts as the flames devastated Lahaina three weeks ago. C BS News' Jonathan Vigliotti reports from Wailea, Hawaii.

Interest on federal student loans resumes in September and payments will start in October after a more than three-year pause due to the COVID pandemic. The Supreme Court rejected President Biden's student debt relief program in June, but the Biden administration is offering a new program to help some borrowers bring down the cost of their monthly payments. Weijia Jiang reports.

Payton Lee is a student reporter at her middle school in Palo Alto, California. She is learning how to shoot, edit and anchor her school's morning news program. She joins "CBS Mornings" for a special back-to-school edition of Talk of the Table.

After decades of declining enrollment in vocational arts programs, a skilled labor shortage is prompting some high schools to place a renewed emphasis on career education. "CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil has the story.

Families across the country are dealing with rising prices for back-to-school shopping. With the cost of school supplies up more than 24% in the last two years, CBS News' Janet Shamlian looks at how it's impacting families and finds some ways to save.

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