Health Insurance and Costs

Sheltering Native Foster Youth During Shelter in Place

In the midst of the pandemic, a new foster care model based on community living and known as a "children's village" has opened up to foster youth on the Cheyenne River Reservation.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
Situ and Xiaolin’s family stayed in the tiny room for nearly an entire year

Fighting COVID-19: One Community

Shiqiao Peng produced this story as part of her participation in the 2020 National Fellowship, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health, Patient Safety and Ethics, Aging
Man folds hands to pray

COVID-19's toll on more than 1,000 Mississippi's chicken plant employees

This article by Alissa Zhu was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship.

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PHOTO: BARBARA GAUNTT/CLARION LEDGER

'Promotoras' a lifeline for the undocumented, sick and scared through COVID

This article by Alissa Zhu was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
Newark has suffered the most COVID-19 deaths and cases in New Jersey.

Crossroads of a plague

The worst pandemic in a century has ravaged Newark and its Black community. It was a tragedy decades in the making.

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