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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Cada año, más de 35.000 estudiantes indocumentados que sueñan con obtener un título universitario en California solicitan el programa de ayuda financiera del estado, el Cal Grant, pero sólo alrededor de un tercio lo reciben. Sin acceso a ayuda financiera federal y pocas oportunidades laborales, perder...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Each year more than 35,000 undocumented students with dreams of earning a college degree in California apply for the state’s marquee financial aid program, the Cal Grant — but only about a third receive it. With no access to federal financial aid and few work opportunities, losing out on state dollars...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Thousands of adult Californians without a high school diploma want to take college classes. Unfortunately, those classes aren’t free, and the lack of a high school diploma cuts off access to most financial aid. The good news is, there’s a fix. The bad news is most...
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Haiti has historically been one of the poorest and most insecure countries in the Americas, a circumstance that has deepened in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. At this time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers Haiti a high-risk country for COVID transmission, the second highest...
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Haití ha sido históricamente uno de los países más pobres e inseguros de las Américas, una circunstancia que se ha profundizado a raíz de la pandemia del COVID-19. En este momento, los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) consideran a Haití como un país de...
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Phoenix, Arizona – La ira por las políticas de inmigración de Estados Unidos reunió a un grupo de mujeres en Texas que nunca antes se conocían pero que querían hacer algo por los inmigrantes varados en la frontera. Hoy, un año después, las mujeres siguen ayudando y han recibido...
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Phoenix, Arizona – Anger over the iron-fisted immigration policies of the United States brought together a group of women in Texas who never knew each other before but wanted to do something for the immigrants stranded at the border. Today, a year later, the women are still helping and...
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StatePoint It’s not only football season. For current and incoming college students, it’s financial aid season, too, and that means completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA should be the first step families take in the planning-for-college process; it’s used by schools to put together...
Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Cada año, más de 35.000 estudiantes indocumentados que sueñan con obtener un título universitario en California solicitan el programa de ayuda financiera del estado, el Cal Grant, pero sólo alrededor de un tercio lo reciben. Sin acceso a ayuda financiera federal y pocas oportunidades laborales, perder...
Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Each year more than 35,000 undocumented students with dreams of earning a college degree in California apply for the state’s marquee financial aid program, the Cal Grant — but only about a third receive it. With no access to federal financial aid and few work opportunities, losing out on state dollars...
Adam Echelman CalMatters Thousands of adult Californians without a high school diploma want to take college classes. Unfortunately, those classes aren’t free, and the lack of a high school diploma cuts off access to most financial aid. The good news is, there’s a fix. The bad news is most...
Haiti has historically been one of the poorest and most insecure countries in the Americas, a circumstance that has deepened in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. At this time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers Haiti a high-risk country for COVID transmission, the second highest...
Phoenix, Arizona – La ira por las políticas de inmigración de Estados Unidos reunió a un grupo de mujeres en Texas que nunca antes se conocían pero que querían hacer algo por los inmigrantes varados en la frontera. Hoy, un año después, las mujeres siguen ayudando y han recibido...
Phoenix, Arizona – Anger over the iron-fisted immigration policies of the United States brought together a group of women in Texas who never knew each other before but wanted to do something for the immigrants stranded at the border. Today, a year later, the women are still helping and...
StatePoint It’s not only football season. For current and incoming college students, it’s financial aid season, too, and that means completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA should be the first step families take in the planning-for-college process; it’s used by schools to put together...
