This story was produced by Rubén Tapia with support from USC Center for Health Journalism's 2020 Impact Fund. His reporting looks at how delays in the cleanup of neighborhoods contaminated by emissions from the now-shuttered Exide battery recycling plant in LA is affecting the health of residents...
Poverty and Class
This story was produced as a larger project by Valeria Fernandez for the 2020 National Fellowship, focusing on how indigenous, immigrant communities and people of color have been organizing before and during the pandemic in communities of care to find support and healing.
Even before the pandemic, ICE consistently failed to provide adequate medical care to detainees on its flights — with dire outcomes.
The RV park is part of California's Project Room Key program, which aimed to open up 15,000 hotel rooms to the state's homeless population when the pandemic took hold in March.
This is the third story in a three-part TimesOC series “Improving Healthcare Access for Cambodians and Vietnamese,” supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2020 California Fellowship.
The surveys provide yet another look at how minorities and lower-income Americans have been disproportionately hurt by COVID-19.
How the massive CZU Lightning Complex fire could have lasting impacts on housing and homelessness.
"Our kids aren’t growing up, you know. They’re dying. They’re dying too fast," says Koquisha Cook, who lost her daughter in an August shooting.
New programs were beginning to address the traumatic foundation of Humboldt County's health problems. Then came COVID-19.
An investigation by The Tribune and the Promotores Collaborative of San Luis Obispo showed many renters throughout the county live in housing that’s old and in need of repairs.