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Three Ways to Support and Stabilize Native Communities during the Pandemic Native Americans are 3.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with the virus than white people, in large part because of inadequate health care services.Five Housing Outcomes That Could Promote Long-Term Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic How can households advance beyond the inequitable, prepandemic status quo?Three Steps to Improving Data to Help Combat the Public Health Emergency of Structural Racism To disrupt structural oppression, disaggregate data by race and ethnicity.Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs Deserve a Chance to Thrive Encouraging experimentation with new forms of work-based learning will lead to a more robust apprenticeship system.Incarcerated People Need Priority Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine Prisons and jails are the sites of some of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country.For Most Workers, the Latest COVID-19 Vaccine Developments Won’t Mean Protection Just Yet Black, Native American, and Hispanic/Latinx workers are more likely to work in person and in close proximity to others, putting them at greater risk of contracting COVID-19.