This story is part of a larger project series, "Voices from the Vineyard," led by Sarah Klearman, a 2020 Impact Fellow. She is reporting on how the twin crises of the pandemic and the wildfires have impacted the health of the valley’s farmworkers and their families.
The death toll and the state’s inadequate and lagging response to the health needs of farmworkers throughout the pandemic reflect a public health failure, farmworker advocates say.
Vaccinating the masses is underway in California, but Kern County continues to lag behind almost all other counties in its vaccination rates, as it has since the start of the vaccine rollout more than two months ago.
As coronavirus challenges mounted last year, officials scrambled to move resources around where needs were greatest.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is the latest organization to call out the Baker Act’s use on children. The organization's Bacardi Jackson discusses the findings.
A survey of Californians sheds new light on how the pandemic is shifting attitudes.
Sorenson’s Ranch School must retrain its staff and abide by state rules or close.
A key group of Texas representatives considered a proposal Tuesday that would lengthen health insurance coverage for low-income mothers.
How do you find sources that live in hard-to-reach places in the middle of a pandemic?
Gov. Spencer Cox on Monday signed a bill that will put more regulations in place at youth residential treatment centers.
