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A Year in Pandemia
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Experiencing racism has been a common hallmark of the Asian American experience over the years, but the frequency and severity of the incidents taking place during the pandemic is hitting the highest levels in decades.
Teaching students with disabilities is complicated enough in normal times. Now, the coronavirus crisis has compounded the challenge, forcing California public schools to serve these students online.
The scarcity of personal protective equipment and fluctuating regulations have created a maze for home health aides and nursing home workers and administrators to navigate.
Many small business owners that have had to close or lay off employees due to coronavirus still have no idea whether they will receive loans from the federal Paycheck Protection Program.
"What's going on there? Are those folks getting extra testing?" The answer, health experts say, is almost certainly yes. But that's just the beginning of how wealth and poverty are likely to play out in this pandemic.
Unless politicians strengthen emergency tenant protection laws to include forgiveness for back rent owed, experts and advocates warn that Los Angeles (and California) could see a huge surge in homelessness in the near future.
When the "Safer at Home" orders went into effect, there was worry for the community's seniors, a cohort that tends to shop on an as-needed basis, often on foot, in the few dozen square blocks in and around Chinatown or Lincoln Heights.
Attorneys and advocates for youth offenders say children and young people held at juvenile facilities across L.A. County lack basic protections from the novel coronavirus, despite living under a national emergency and multiple orders from authorities.
With rent now due for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit, many L.A. landlords are urging their tenants to pay rent online. But some tenants are uncomfortable with the push to pay online, which is allowed but cannot be the only option.
Teachers and parents everywhere are trying to make distance learning work, but early education poses some unique challenges, from short attention spans to concerns about too much screen time. We talked to parents and teachers about how it's going so far.