By Laura Ungar Patricia Powers went a few years without health insurance and couldn’t afford regular doctor visits. So, she had no idea cancerous tumors were silently growing in both... Read more
By Michael Booth As Hassan Latif and Sean Taylor slide their arms into neon safety vests and pat hard hats onto their heads, they step through the unfinished doorway of their dream ho... Read more
by Lauren Villagran and Stefanie Dodt Fernando D., a 35-year-old father of two has crossed the border from Juárez to El Paso to donate blood plasma twice a week, every week, fo... Read more
By LJ Dawson Every day that Janet van der Laak drives between car dealerships in her sales job, she keeps size 12 shoes, some clothes and a packed lunch — a PB&J sandwich, fruit a... Read more
by Christian Marquez Manuel Sandoval ends every day the same way – sauntering along streets he knows by heart but cannot name. It’s a habit that has kept him young, he says, despite h... Read more
by Scott Downes While the decennial Census does not technically occur until 2020, the constitutionally required effort to count each and every person in the U.S. is already underway.... Read more
by Kendra Chamberlain “Take a left here,” Daniel Tso says, gesturing with a hand towards an unmarked dirt road. There’s a small, hand-painted sign beside a tree that reads “Living Spr... Read more
Sebastian Martínez I am a Latinx (a person who is ethnically from a Latin American or Caribbean culture) living with co-occurring mental health conditions. It took quite some time for... Read more
By Laura Ungar and Trudy Lieberman Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years old and blind. He uses a wheelchair since losing half his right leg to diabetes and gets dialysis for kidney fai... Read more
by Kristin Jones Racism. Classism. Sexism. Nationalism. Oppression. Are these words divisive? They are words that explain some of the most brutal divisions between us. The ones at the... Read more
