A doctor who cares for underserved patients finds her efforts are often rendered useless by systemic barriers to care.
Poverty and Class
Families share experiences of living through the pandemic and what help they still need.
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."
Chuukese, Marshallese and Samoan residents have been getting the deadly virus at the highest rates.
Two WBEZ education reporters share how a family and a teacher are coping with remote learning.
It makes a list based on records so sensitive, they’re protected by state and federal law.