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Race and Equity
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Five journalists will undertake ambitious explanatory and investigative reporting projects about California’s health challenges.
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Financial distress is leading some immigrants into lives as professional guinea pigs.
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In other news, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis takes aim at vaccine and mask mandates.
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A reporter reflects on lessons from reporting on Cambodian refugees in California still grappling with the trauma of genocide.
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How are we supposed to cover the community as a whole when we can’t communicate with a large portion of its residents?
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Experts hope new universal basic income programs and an innovative maternal center will help protect Black infants and mothers.
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Links between environmental exposures and maternal health outcomes remain underexplored, despite recent efforts to catch up.
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A pledge to sharply reduce infant mortality by 2023 faces daunting obstacles.
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For years in the western Coachella Valley, residents who don’t speak English have been left out of senior centers — the same places where many older adults go when experiencing isolation, loneliness, and housing, food or income insecurity.