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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services Physical violence and verbal abuse are the norm for many transgender youths. Last month, as news emerged that 28-year Audrey Hale — who killed six people, including three 9-year-old students at Nashville, Tennessee’s Covenant School — was transgender, the LGBTQIA community began to fear...
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Health insurance does not help you if you can’t find a primary-care doctor – and that is a problem for 100 million Americans, according to a new report. Researchers from the National Association of Community Health Centers have found that one-quarter of medically disenfranchised people are children. Joe Dunn, senior vice...
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When we talk about child poverty and malnutrition, the first images that come to mind for many are the extreme cases in African countries or, closer to us, in Haiti, the poorest country in Latin America in terms of income per person. But the reality is that almost no...
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Alyssa Story & Carmen González CalMatters For the last decade Teague O’Shea has been in and out of college. Now, at 42 years old, he is trying again. Furthering his education was important to O’Shea, who had been working as an apprentice electrician for his local water district, but...
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Con las vacaciones aquí, el ritmo se ha acelerado en las tiendas de comestibles étnicas de todo el país, ya que los inmigrantes compran alimentos y especias que les recuerdan a su familia y su hogar. Para muchos inmigrantes, el primer lugar en el que se sienten bienvenidos y...
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With the holidays here, the pace has picked up in ethnic grocery stores across the country, as immigrants shop for the foods and spices that remind them of family and home. For many immigrants, the first place they feel welcome and accepted is not necessarily where they live, but...
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On a late August morning, the Echo Park Trash Club approached an underpass below Los Angeles’ 101 Freeway. Months earlier, the city had dismantled a homeless encampment located there during one of its routine sweeps. It was the Trash Club’s first return to the site since its residents had...
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Durante la pandemia, los colegios comunitarios de California perdieron el 19 % de su inscripción. Pero, como muestra un nuevo informe, un punado de escuelas fue lo opuesto a esta tendencia. Los investigadores de Campaign for College Opportunity descubrieron que algunas escuelas tuvieron perdidas menores o incluso agregaron estudiantes al...
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During the pandemic, California community colleges lost 19% of their enrollment, but as a new report found, a handful of schools bucked the trend. Researchers with the Campaign for College Opportunity found some schools had smaller losses or even added students by focusing on equity and expanding outreach. Colleen Moore, higher-education...