Poverty and Class

Portable sink in Skid Row missing soap dispenser surrounded by trash

As Omicron Variant Emerges, Issues With Porta-Potties and Sinks For Homeless Persist Despite L.A.’s Intent To Do Better

Part six of a 20-month long investigation looking into hygiene stations that the City of Los Angeles distributed to homeless encampments.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety

State leaders, law enforcement and mental health advocates unveil Texas’ “Eliminate the Wait” plan at the 2021 Judicial Summit.

Jail waitlist for mental health help hits new record. This plan proposes a statewide fix.

By October 2021, the number of people stuck in jail waiting for a state hospital bed had grown to a new record of 1,838 people.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Housing and Homeslessness

Passengers board a FAX bus at a stop near Manchester Center in Fresno. In Fresno County, about 65% of all jobs are within a 10-m

Are Fresno’s car-less residents being left behind? What it means to our community

“If the bus is running late, that makes me late, you know,” one resident said. “For my important things I have to do, I have no choice.”

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health

Amner Martinez runs a staffing agency in Des Moines. His family, who are originally from Guatemala, moved from California to Iow

Many of the employees at Iowa's meatpacking plants were already in vulnerable positions. Then COVID hit the plants

Amner Martinez still doesn’t really know all the details from when his 74-year-old father Concepcion got really sick with COVID-19 near the beginning of the pandemic.

Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Behind the closed door: Domestic Violence in Slavic Religious Communities

Maiya Ossipova was a divorced woman in her early forties with three kids when she met her future American husband on a dating website.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Mental Health, Domestic Violence

Muchos de los empleados de las plantas procesadoras de carne de Iowa ya se encontraban en posiciones vulnerables. Entonces COVID les pegó fuerte en las plantas

This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include:
COVID struck the nation's meatpacking plants more than a year ago. But worker safety is still a contentious issue

Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Mental Competency Consequences: The Hidden and Unreliable Data Texas Tracks — Or Doesn't

In Texas, those charged with crimes and found mentally incompetent are entitled to treatment at a state hospital before returning to jail and standing trial. The failing system waitlists hundreds. Sometimes they die sooner than receiving treatment.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Community Safety

The Storm Lake Tyson pork plant was the site of a COVID-19 outbreak in May 2020 that affected one-quarter of its workforce.

COVID le pegó duro a las plantas procesadoras de carne del país hace más de un año. Pero la seguridad de los trabajadores sigue siendo un tema polémico

This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include:

Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

A decommissioned plane sits on the tarmac in the former Air Force base in Blytheville on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021.on Friday, Nov. 5,

Delta's cities show its plight; Blytheville, Pine Bluff face future after population drops

"There used to be a time when license plates had numbers on it for each county based on population and Pulaski County was one and Jefferson County and Mississippi County were two and three."

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health, Community Safety

Intermediate students in a Native American boarding school at Beaulieu, Minnesota.

Minnesota’s Foster Care System Perpetuates the Legacy of Racist Boarding Schools, Native Mothers and Experts Say

This story was published in partnership with Mother Jones and The Fuller Project. Support for this reporting was provided by the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism National Health Journalism Fellowship.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Mental Health

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Poverty and Class

As Omicron Variant Emerges, Issues With Porta-Potties and Sinks For Homeless Persist Despite L.A.’s Intent To Do Better

Jail waitlist for mental health help hits new record. This plan proposes a statewide fix.

Are Fresno’s car-less residents being left behind? What it means to our community

Many of the employees at Iowa's meatpacking plants were already in vulnerable positions. Then COVID hit the plants

Behind the closed door: Domestic Violence in Slavic Religious Communities

Muchos de los empleados de las plantas procesadoras de carne de Iowa ya se encontraban en posiciones vulnerables. Entonces COVID les pegó fuerte en las plantas

Mental Competency Consequences: The Hidden and Unreliable Data Texas Tracks — Or Doesn't

COVID le pegó duro a las plantas procesadoras de carne del país hace más de un año. Pero la seguridad de los trabajadores sigue siendo un tema polémico

Delta's cities show its plight; Blytheville, Pine Bluff face future after population drops

Minnesota’s Foster Care System Perpetuates the Legacy of Racist Boarding Schools, Native Mothers and Experts Say