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VA secretary touts new equity team designed to combat benefit disparities for Black veterans
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Friday the creation of a new equity team tasked with investigating and combatting disparities in the denial of benefits for Black vets.
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COVID-19 Still Spiking in California Farm Fields
An NBC Bay Area investigation reveals a severe COVID crisis in a community of essential workers who feel abandoned.
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COVID Contradiction? Churches Get Federal PPP Money While Defying Local Health Orders
An NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit analysis of Federal SBA Paycheck Protection Program records found at least a dozen California churches got millions of dollars in Federal taxpayer COVID-19 relief money while, at the same time, defying local government health rules meant to reduce the spread of COVID.
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Homeowner Rents Out Room During COVID. Now She Might Lose Her House
The Investigative Unit examines how a local pandemic shut-down order forced a San Mateo family out of their own home, they say.
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Nearly a Thousand COVID-19 Cases Reported in California Day Cares
New Data Revealed by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit Shows 998 COVID-19 cases in child care facilities across California. The Investigative Unit documents how two Bay Area child care centers scrambled to prevent outbreaks after learning of COVID-19 positive cases among the kids who attend their facilities.
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COVID at Work – State Sees 30% Rise in Safety Complaints
State regulators say they’ve received a flood of safety complaints from workers claiming their employers are not doing enough to protect against COVID-19.
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Following the CARES ACT Money: Why Some Small Businesses See Little to No Relief
Since March, in four separate pieces of congressionally approved legislation including the CARES Act, the federal government has spent more than $810 billion backing small business loans, yet several local business owners tell the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit that those federal dollars have yet to find their way to those who need it the most. Stephen Stock reports.
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COVID-19 Outbreaks May Arise From Immigrant Detention Centers, Doctors Say
Doctors fear a wave of new infections will explode into communities around ICE detention centers.
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Regulations Keeping California's Graduating Nursing Students From Assisting in Pandemic
Melissa Gong was completing her final semester of the nursing program at Cabrillo Community College when COVID-19 brought her studies to a halt. The facility where she was doing clinical training closed its doors to protect patients from potential exposure.
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‘Ship Strikes' Killing Whales Despite Govt. Program to Slow Down Vessels
Ships are hitting and killing whales off the California coast at some of the highest rates in more than a decade, according to data obtained and tabulated by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. The spike in ‘ship strikes’ comes despite a 5-year government initiative to slow down vessels as they make their way into San Francisco Bay.
