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Jackie Botts

Author Archives: Jackie Botts

Jackie covers income inequity and economic survival for the The California Divide collaboration. She previously reported for the Data and Enterprise desk for Reuters News, where her team won 3rd Place in the Philip Meyer Data Journalism Award and the Hillman Foundation’s June Sidney Award for "Shielded," a 2020 data-driven investigative series into an obscure legal doctrine called qualified immunity that protects police accused of excessive force. Before that, she reported for her hometown paper, The Santa Barbara Independent. Her coverage of immigration, the environment, and justice has also appeared in Pacific Standard, Public Radio International’s “The World” and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications.
Jackie is a Report for America corps member.

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The neighborhoods where COVID collides with overcrowded homes

Jackie BottsLo Bénichou by Jackie Botts and Lo Bénichou June 12, 2020June 26, 2020

The pandemic has layered a health crisis on top of a housing crisis on top of a class divide. A clear pattern has emerged as the coronavirus spares some California neighborhoods and strikes others: The virus takes a heavier toll in neighborhoods where people pack into overcrowded homes, according to a CalMatters analysis of neighborhood-level […]

Isidoro Contreras Flores, sells an arrangnment of flowers in Seaside, Calif, on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian

Close Quarters: California’s overcrowded homes fuel spread of coronavirus among workers

Jackie Botts by Kate Cimini and Jackie Botts June 12, 2020December 10, 2020

How we analyzed the link between COVID-19 and crowded housing in California

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts June 12, 2020June 12, 2020
Eddie Wutangsy uses a bullhorn while chanting to the crowd of several thousand protesters as they march past Fresno Police headquarters during a protest over the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, May 31, 2020. Photo by John Walker, The Fresno Bee

Voices of California protesters: same message, different motives

Nigel DuaraJackie Botts by Nigel Duara, Kate Cimini, Jackie Botts and Manuela Tobias June 5, 2020September 16, 2020

La pandemia afecta sobre todo a las mujeres trabajadoras inmigrantes

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts May 21, 2020June 7, 2020

Pandemic steals most from immigrant working women

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts May 21, 2020September 16, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2020-2021 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento on May 14, 2020. Photo by AP Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo/Pool

Newsom propone recortar drásticamente los gastos en educación y salud, por lo que pide ayuda al gobierno federal

AvatarJackie Botts by Laurel Rosenhall and Jackie Botts May 14, 2020May 21, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2020-2021 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento on May 14, 2020. Photo by AP Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo/Pool

Newsom moves to slash school, health spending — but asks feds for a rescue

AvatarJackie Botts by Laurel Rosenhall and Jackie Botts May 14, 2020May 21, 2020

California sued Uber and Lyft — will it help drivers?

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts May 5, 2020May 5, 2020
Endocrinologist Dr. Ray Samoa at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte on April 25, 2020. Samoa, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, just recently returned to his family home after being in an extended quarantine. Photo by Nancy Pastor for CalMatters

Track us better: Overlooked Pacific Islanders hit hard by coronavirus

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts May 5, 2020June 23, 2020

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