Poverty and Class

Trial By Fire

My Daughter Was Kidnapped & I Did Not See Her For 22 Years – Leena’s Story

Leena met her firstborn daughter 22 years after she was kidnapped as a baby. But it was not the reunion she had hoped for.

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

Credit: Lola Avigliano for Reveal

Scores of Migrant Children Considered or Attempted Suicide in US Custody, Records Show

Data obtained by Reveal highlights how a patchwork system can be ill-equipped to tackle serious mental health episodes, leaving migrant children to bear the tremendous toll.

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

A bed inside Whitfield Regional Medical Center, which is partnering with UAB to bring high tech fibroid treatment to rural women

Program increases treatment options for rural Alabama women with fibroids

Black women have high rates of fibroids – which are one of the leading causes of hysterectomies. Women in rural areas may have a harder time gaining access to alternative treatments such as uterine fibroid embolization that are available at large hospitals or specialty centers.

Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Faith in Action community leaders, low-income families and elders, local clergy and congregation members ask Supervisors to fund

Rent relief denied; applicants plan to appeal before July 1 deadline

Eviction notices are going up, and the local program is being tapped.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class

Photo of hand writing, medical bill shown.

For Black Americans, lifesaving medical care too often leads to lifelong debt

The Biden administration takes steps to ease the burden and protect consumers.

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

Between the aforementioned categories, until last month, there were 30,207 beneficiaries in Puerto Rico.

Reduced assistance in Puerto Rico for the elderly, blind or disabled

Instead of SSI, the AABD program continues on the island, with low federal aid and the obligation of state matching.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class

Isabella López Aponte, 5, struggles with seven congenital heart conditions that can only be cured once a heart transplant is ava

Victims of discrimination: family recounts how they lost SSI when they returned to Puerto Rico

SSI brought a Puerto Rican family back from economic ruin when they most needed it, but they lost the help as soon as they returned to the island.

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

The extension of SSI to Puerto Rico residents is currently included in three congressional bills, among them the budget reconcil

SSI extension to Puerto Rico lies in Congress’s court

Three bills and Biden’s social agenda legislation wait for the House and Senate’s attention.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class

Abraham Rivera Berríos (second, from right to left) decided to sue the Social Security Administration (SSA) to seek access to th

Plaintiffs demand a halt to discrimination on SSI in Puerto Rico

After the US Supreme Court decision on Vaello Madero case, Puerto Rico District Court lifts stay in two pending cases.

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

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I-TEAM | Lost on the faultline: The invisible children

The reporting team uncovered nearly 3,000 students in the Richmond County School System are unaccounted for this school year.

Poverty and Class, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety