In communities with many reasons to distrust government efforts, vaccine distribution efforts by tribal and urban Native programs have expanded access and eased worries.
Confronting the double crisis of the decline of coal jobs and a pandemic, some people in the northwest Colorado city of Craig are finding silver linings.
Overall, childhood poverty is trending downward, but a third of Colorado’s black and Latino kids still live in poverty, while child homelessness is increasing dramatically.
A lack of personal protective equipment, low pay and little sick leave mean that home health aides are uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19, and potentially spreading it to others.
Groups providing services to people experiencing domestic violence in Colorado are forced to adjust their services at a time when financial stress and isolation are increasing the risk of abuse.