Environmental Health

Workers pick strawberries in a field west of Santa Maria in April 2020.

How Santa Barbara County is protecting its most vulnerable residents from COVID-19

A new investigate series will examine the impact of COVID-19 prevention efforts on vulnerable groups in California's Santa Barbara County.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health

Educators, families and high school students honked and clapped at farmworkers around the Watsonville community during the Watso

Monterey County advocates, growers urge renewed focus on farmworker housing

These responses were submitted by members of an advisory board on farmworker housing that featured growers, advocates, and service providers in Monterey County, organized by The Californian reporter Kate Cimini.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Patient Safety and Ethics

A farmworker walks between rows of strawberries as he adjusts his hoodie in Watsonville, Calif.

Do California ag counties hold solutions to Monterey County farmworker housing crisis?

Salinas and Monterey County as a whole are some of the least affordable places to live in the U.S., per the 2019 Harvard State of the Nation's housing study.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs

Medical Worker Wears a Mask for Protection

Prognosis uncertain for closing racial health disparities Amid pandemic and recession, there’s awareness

"For vulnerable populations, the needs are pressing given the intersection of economics and race."

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Patient Safety and Ethics

Hawaii Pacific Islanders Are Twice As Likely To Be Hospitalized For COVID-19

Chuukese, Marshallese and Samoan residents have been getting the deadly virus at the highest rates.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Patient Safety and Ethics

Fivay High School is one of many Pasco County middle and high schools where Pasco Sheriff’s Office deputies serve as school reso

Targeted, Part 2: Pasco’s sheriff uses grades and abuse histories to label schoolchildren potential criminals. The kids and their parents don’t know.

It makes a list based on records so sensitive, they’re protected by state and federal law.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Mental Health, Community Safety

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Environmental Health

How Santa Barbara County is protecting its most vulnerable residents from COVID-19

Monterey County advocates, growers urge renewed focus on farmworker housing

Do California ag counties hold solutions to Monterey County farmworker housing crisis?

Prognosis uncertain for closing racial health disparities Amid pandemic and recession, there’s awareness

Hawaii Pacific Islanders Are Twice As Likely To Be Hospitalized For COVID-19

Targeted, Part 2: Pasco’s sheriff uses grades and abuse histories to label schoolchildren potential criminals. The kids and their parents don’t know.

How one reporter traced a community’s health problems to widespread childhood trauma

When success in school depends on technology at home, low-income students lose out

The People vs. The Pandemic: The fight against the virus on Navajo Nation

Story idea: Compare your area to these counties after COVID-19 policy shifts