{"id":1059,"date":"2026-05-15T10:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:41:55","slug":"us-teens-getting-less-sleep-than-ever-new-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"US teens getting less sleep than ever, new report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homework, social pressure and jobs still keep teens up but now screen time and social media rob their sleep<\/p>\n<p>A new study from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health shows that today\u2019s teenagers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/sleep\">sleeping<\/a> less than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, which appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/pediatrics\/article-abstract\/doi\/10.1542\/peds.2025-074933\/207534\/Sleep-Duration-Among-US-Adolescents-1991-2023?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">Pediatrics<\/a>, showed a consistent decline in sleep across every age category. The latest figures revealed record-low sleep levels for all groups, with only 22% of older adolescents saying they slept at least seven hours each night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/teens-get-less-sleep-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homework, social pressure and jobs still keep teens up but now screen time and social media rob their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}