A new study finds that providing low-income people with $400 a month in no-strings cash resulted in fewer visits to the emergency department.
Poverty and Class
Community outreach helped us cultivate a culture of listening and investigating based on people’s questions.
When parents must choose between food and diapers, children's well-being suffers. The problem still doesn’t get the attention it deserves.
A former judge wants youth who are grappling with violence and poverty to know that there are more paths open to them than they imagine.
Disasters in the form of wildfires, heatwaves and smoke days have exacerbated Sonoma's disparities of wealth, health and education.
Finding people to actually talk about their experiences is tough. For many people, eviction is shrouded in shame.
Transgender and non-binary people are often excluded from the conversation on "period poverty."
A new commercial tax aims to do something novel in California: provide child care financial aid for middle-class families and set a minimum wage of $28 an hour for early education teachers.
The state has been progressive on the issue, becoming the third state to end the “tampon tax” in 2016, and introducing and implementing several bills into law in 2021 and 2022.
Carmen Diaz remembers what it was like to be forced out of her home — to be a 13- or 14-year-old who had to pack up her room and stay at a family friend’s house, unsure of where her family would go next.