In Silicon Valley, the pandemic has exacerabated long-running inequities between places such as Atherton and East Palo Alto.
Health Insurance and Costs
San Francisco health officials are looking at how to improve access, outreach as untapped funds reach $409 million.
This story was produced as part of a large project by Jessica Bedolla, a participant in the 2020 National Fellowship, who is exploring, researching and reporting the impact of this worldwide pandemic in communities along the border.
This story was produced as a larger project by Valeria Fernandez for the 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on how indigenous, immigrant communities and people of color have been organizing before and during the pandemic in communities of care to find support and healing....
A doctor who cares for underserved patients finds her efforts are often rendered useless by systemic barriers to care.
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.
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.
Indigenous burial traditions were already threatened by economic pressures and changing cultures. Then the pandemic struck.
Nursing home workers like Eyvette Diane Pascascio are among the most vulnerable and arguably most overlooked heroes of this pandemic.
"For vulnerable populations, the needs are pressing given the intersection of economics and race."