A reporter learned how to gather her own data as a building block for her narratives, which she brought to life through ...

A reporter discovers troubling gaps in the data collected by LA's child welfare agency on child removals due to neglect.

So much crucial brain development occurs in the first three years of life that one researcher jokes that to him and his colleagues, 3-year-olds are practically middle aged. And yet,the first three ...

To understand demand for water vending machines in San Diego County, Voice of San Diego analyzed data from the California Department of Public Health, the agency responsible for licensing and ...

This is the first part of Forgotten Children, a series on the tragic and underreported problem of childhood grief – and efforts to address it. Parental death has been rising in the U.S. due to ...

This story was produced as part of a large project by Jessica Bedolla, a participant in the 2020 National Fellowship, who is exploring, researching and reporting the impact of this worldwide pandemic ...

This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman, participants in the Other stories in this series include: Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental ...

<p>In the past, the study of addiction has often been focused on substances — like heroin, marijuana and alcohol. But experts in the field now believe that addiction begins with the “reward circuitry” ...