America’s largest county has launched numerous initiatives to shrink its jail population and divert people with mental illness from jail entirely.
Children & Families
Listen in as WIB managing director Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier joins health data reporter Anissa Durham to discuss a behind-the-scenes look at reporting on adultification bias.
CalMatters Housing Reporter Manuela Tobias shares her findings from an investigation on California’s mobile home parks.
Government subsidies for child care are the main industry-wide solution available to cover the cost of child care. But they fall far short, as one reporter learns.
"Hearing about how the end of the federal child nutrition waivers affected families was heartbreaking and infuriating."
Aaliyah Bowden reported while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2022 Data Fellowship.
Hear the brave voices of those who went on the record about their experiences being criminalized and sexualized.