Poverty and Class

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COVID-19 weighs heavily on Native foster youth and child protective services

Child welfare is an already stressed system in Native communities, leaving children even more susceptible to the impacts of COVID-19.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Patient Safety and Ethics, Aging

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Are officials doing their job to ensure federally subsidized housing is safe?

How many other environmental disasters like the West Calumet Housing Complex are still undiscovered?

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Patient Safety and Ethics

Latinos living along the border are facing dire challenges amid COVID-19

U.S.-Mexico border communities are facing dire challenges as the pandemic escalates.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs

How the pandemic has devastated San Francisco’s Asian communities

A reporter explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting the Bay Area's Asian communities.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Patient Safety and Ethics, Aging

THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ HAVE PARTNERED IN A NEW MANAGED ENCAMPMENT IN SAN LORENZO PARK.

Activists: Don’t Blow Another Opportunity on Homelessness

A pandemic, a shift in homeless services and two new reports.

Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Housing and Homeslessness, Mental Health, Community Safety

Bruce Anderson, Hawaii's health director.

Pandemic is disproportionately hurting Hawaii's Pacific Islander and Filipino communities

Despite Hawaii’s reputation as a racial paradise, the state is home to striking income disparities that fall along racial and ethnic lines.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Chronic Disease, Aging

A volunteer participating in Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine trial receives a shot in South Africa on June 24.

Recruiting Black volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trials means overcoming mistrust

The ugly history of clandestine experiments and abuse of Black patients casts a long shadow.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics

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‘We need your help.’ Are refugees getting mental-health assistance they need?

Refugees need help with mental health care, but are they getting it? A reporter plots a deeper exploration of their plight.

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Patient Safety and Ethics

After Gov. David Ige removed access to public health insurance for poor, sick migrants from Micronesia, many died

Hawaii Wanted To Save Insurance Money. People Died

A new study shows the impacts of a 2015 decision to cut health insurance for some of the state’s poorest and sickest residents.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics

From cradle to grave, racial inequity is part of the Black Charlotte experience

A new reporting project asks, "Why do people of color in an affluent city lack basic medical attention?"

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease, Food and Nutrition

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Poverty and Class

COVID-19 weighs heavily on Native foster youth and child protective services

Are officials doing their job to ensure federally subsidized housing is safe?

Latinos living along the border are facing dire challenges amid COVID-19

How the pandemic has devastated San Francisco’s Asian communities

Activists: Don’t Blow Another Opportunity on Homelessness

Pandemic is disproportionately hurting Hawaii's Pacific Islander and Filipino communities

Recruiting Black volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trials means overcoming mistrust

‘We need your help.’ Are refugees getting mental-health assistance they need?

Hawaii Wanted To Save Insurance Money. People Died

From cradle to grave, racial inequity is part of the Black Charlotte experience