Black Sacramento residents face severe housing inequities — 35% of the homeless population but only 9% overall —amid rising rents and cuts to support programs.
Poverty and Class
The massive changes to SNAP will hit low-income people hard for years to come.
Leonard Dixon has run the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center — one of the largest youth jails in the country — for a decade. Records and interviews suggest he might not live in Chicago and is rarely seen at the facility.
Data analysis is a powerful reporting tool. But as one reporter learns, it’s insufficient unless it’s grounded in the reality of the community you’re reporting on.
Butte County’s Mental Health Diversion program helps defendants get treatment instead of jail, but the program is being underused, some attorneys say.
As SNAP budget cuts and expanded work requirements kick in, millions of children may lose access to free school meals.
Latino families in Riverside County turn to workshops and healing circles to cope with trauma, stress, and stigma from immigration enforcement.
While some improvements have been made, a lack of resources and cultural changes continue to challenge efforts to reduce absenteeism.
In Texas, a journalist uncovers a "shadow child welfare system that operates outside the purview of state officials, in spaces created by gaps in oversight and the law."
Compared to its population, Gilroy has the highest homelessness rate per capita of any city in the region, but resources are sorely lacking.