The data tell a disturbing story about how the U.S. has failed to invest in the health and future of some of the most vulnerable among us.
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“If we really cared, we would be getting the housing,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor at UCSF. “Everything else follows.”
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic and a summer of wildfire smoke, children living in East and West Oakland had a hard time breathing.
In Silicon Valley, the pandemic has exacerabated long-running inequities between places such as Atherton and East Palo Alto.
In our highly connected world, abusers use technology against victims to monitor, threaten, harass, and hurt them.
In recent years, the jail has also seen the number of deaths in custody tick upward. Most of those deaths are suicides, a category of deaths some jail experts have deemed “mostly preventable.”
How did a county that ranks 11th among California counties in population end up with the second-highest COVID-19 case rate per capita in the state?
The lack of consistency in screening abuse reports is concerning enough for state legislators to consider changes to North Carolina’s system.