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The CDC released a new report last month about the affect COVID-19 is having on American Indians and Alaska Natives, particularly the mortality rate. The percentage of COVID-19 deaths for Natives aged 60 and younger was 35.1 percent compared to …
Rebuilding vulnerable communities reeling from the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic will require a heightened public-private partnership, one defined not just by resolute individual and entrepreneurial initiative, social enterprise and nonprofit capacity-building, but also by thoughtful and visionary public …
A Steely National Resolve Is Needed to Achieve an Equitable Recovery More >
Mi nombre completo es Isabel Martinez, todos me conocen como Isa. Ahorita soy empleada de Metro Family pero empecé como voluntaria hace como 5 años y me encantó, me gusta mucho trabajar para la comunidad. Vieron cómo hacía mi trabajo, …
The percentage of people held pretrial for six months or longer is up six percent from January of last year, according to a UCLA School of Law report. COVID-19 is ripping through jails and prisons in the U.S. Over 355,000 …
L.A. County Jails Are Locking People Up For Longer During the Pandemic More >
Special thanks to NFID Director Julie Morita, MD, executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for this guest blog post on applying health equity principles to the COVID-19 response. Dr. Morita served on the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory …
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use to be distributed across the nation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that healthcare workers and residents in long-term care facilities …
This post is written by Saba Mwine (she/her), Senior Program Manager for CSH Los Angeles and equity strategist. Racism is fundamental to the United States’ inception: our founding as a nation and economy depended on it. Chattel slavery and the …
Equity Is the Answer all Along: Addressing Racial Trauma and Homelessness More >
According to academic research and nonprofit data, chicken slaughterhouses that were granted government waivers to increase their slaughter-line speeds are 10 times more likely to cause COVID-19 outbreaks. Since 2018, the Trump administration has granted 54 chicken slaughterhouses permission to …
Increased Slaughter-Line Speeds 10 Times More Likely to Spark COVID Outbreaks More >
By: Jorge Lambrinos The COVID-19 Pandemic has created an atmosphere of mistrust and apprehension among many older adults. It is expected that with a COVID-19 vaccine available, many older adult African American and Latinos will be adverse, for a variety …