Poverty and Class

Home designs imported to the Arctic from elsewhere are contributing to health problems that disproportionately affect Alaska Natives.

Black Oklahomans are 50% more likely than white Oklahomans to die from maternity-related complications. Black babies in Oklahoma are almost 2.5 times more likely than white babies to die before their first birthday.

Faced with daunting gaps in water and sewer systems, some Alaska Native communities are thinking small.

The Cook County state’s attorney recently learned her former physical trainer is addicted to heroin and has been in and out of jail for it.

In Chicago, thousands of drug possession arrests are routinely tossed out every year. The cost to taxpayers? Millions. To those arrested? The loss of jobs, housing, freedom.

Many residents of rural Alaska suffer higher rates of illnesses because they lack basic infrastructure.

Colville tribal leaders aren't waiting on corporate America. When it comes to providing broadband, "nobody else is going to do it," said Damon Day, the Colville Reservation’s chief information officer.

A newly released state-ordered audit found Virginia agencies have failed to competently provide information to the almost half a million residents who speak little to no English.

For 35 years, Fresno County’s Measure C — a half-cent sales tax dedicated to transportation — has dramatically shaped the landscape of metropolitan Fresno.

“More workers have died from COVID-19 in the last 18 months in the meat and poultry industry, than died from all work-related causes in the industry in the past 15 years,” as one expert testified.