Vanessa Vasquez

nursing home worker

Vanessa Vasquez on KCRW

COVID-19 infection and death rates among Latinos are higher compared to white households. Latinos are also suffering more financially, especially women.

‘They don’t care about us.’ Latina frontline worker struggles to make ends meet after getting COVID

COVID-19 infection and death rates among Latinos are higher compared to white households. Latinos are also suffering more financially, especially women.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

More from KCRW

How to deal with trust issues? Am I terrible for thinking my partner isn’t hot anymore? How do I tell someone I hooked up with that I just want to be friends?

from How’s Your Sex Life?

Institutional Care for People with Neurodiversity

from Second Opinion

This week, psychology and education professor at Columbia University, Peter Coleman explains why in turbulent times at home and across the globe, Costa Rica remains peaceful and…

from Life Examined

How to deal with sex and chronic pain? When to bring up a mental health condition in a relationship? And the best and worst parts of dating with a disability.

from How’s Your Sex Life?

This week, corporate speaker, former professional poker player and author of “Quit: The Power Of Knowing When To Walk Away, ” Annie Duke says knowing when to quit can be helpful when…

from Life Examined

This week, Yale professor of psychology Paul Bloom offers another perspective on retirement.

from Life Examined

The Downtown LA gay bar Redline opened in 2015. Now it joins a long legacy of LGBTQ spaces that have closed in the city center.

from KCRW Features

This week, renowned writer and author Michael Pollan on the new science of psychedelics.

from Life Examined

On this episode of Scheer Intelligence, host Robert Scheer and Les Leopold discuss Leopold’s new book, “Wall Street's War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the…

from Scheer Intelligence