California will spend more than $8 million to find safer homes for children returning from troubled out-of-state residential programs, in response to a recent investigation into rampant reports of abuse at the facilities.
Children & Families
Shawn Thierry can’t recall the moment she gave birth, but she does remember how she almost died.
California farmworkers have been hit especially hard by the virus, as they often live in overcrowded housing, travel in groups to work, and lack access to health insurance.
These groups, and others, will need to drop their opposition to vaccination for the shots to work statewide.
Thousands of U.S. Public Housing Residents Live in the Country’s Most Polluted Places
This story was produced by Ida Mojadad, a participant in the 2019 Data Fellowship, who is investigating the efficacy of the health access program Healthy SF in San Francisco....
The colonias of south Texas have been devastated by the pandemic, a crisis made worse by poverty and limited access to health care.
A reporter reflects on lessons learned from covering the Los Angeles communities affected by decades of toxic pollution from the Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon, California.
For two decades, victims of U.S. nuclear bomb tests fought to obtain the Medicaid eligibility that was promised them. In the waning days of 2020, they won.
It’s time to get good at talking about mental health.