When SNAP benefits were paused on Nov. 1, millions of people were left without cash assistance to buy food. To fill the gap, ...

Chinese immigrant mothers in Southern California seeking care face language barriers, billing fights and fear of using public ...

Across Southern California, Chinese immigrant mothers are raising young children amid sky-high childcare costs, thin safety ...

Around 400,000 Californians could lose their health coverage if Congress fails to extend federal health subsidies before the ...

Ninety-nine year old Ronghui Ye lives in a senior housing complex subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...

I am a freelance opinion writer and my lived experience of being incarcerated informs my work. I was the first incarcerated person to have a regular byline in a publication outside the prison. That ...

I'm an independent journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. My work has appeared in various outlets, including WebMD, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Time ...

The Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California was founded in 1971 with generous support from Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg. Its strategic location in ...

Lauran Neergaard is a medical writer for The Associated Press. She joined the AP in Atlanta in 1989, and has covered health since 1992. Based in Washington since 1993, she currently covers public ...

I'm the health reporter at The Public's Radio in Rhode Island. Woonsocket, Rhode Island is a former mill city with the state’s highest per capita rate of drug overdose death. A reporter shares how she ...

<p>Although gangs and gang violence have been reconceived in recent years as a public health problem requiring systemic cures---there is far less agreement on what those cures might be. While ...