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José López Zamorano La Red Hispana From the nation’s highest platform, in his State of the Union Address (SOTU), President Joe Biden made it clear to Republicans that scapegoating the most vulnerable migrants will not solve the immigration crisis facing the United States. “I am not going to demonize...
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Rya Jetha CalMatters Cuando se produjo la pandemia de COVID-19 en 2020, los tres días de licencia por enfermedad remunerada de California para los trabajadores de tiempo completo no fueron suficientes para cubrir las cuarentenas o los efectos secundarios de las vacunas. El gobernador Gavin Newsom firmó una ley...
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When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, California’s three days of paid sick leave for full-time workers was not enough to cover quarantines or vaccine side effects. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring companies to offer as much as 80 hours of supplemental sick leave for employees. The temporary measure was...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Before the pandemic, Claudia Gutierrez worked day shifts in one fast food drive-thru and night shifts in another, never making more than the minimum wage. The coronavirus cut those hours in half. Gutierrez, 51, lives with her two teenagers, an adult daughter, her daughter’s boyfriend and...
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La temporada de gripe (flu) ya está aquí, y aunque muchos creen que la gripe no es grave, especialmente si se consideran “sanos,” a veces puede ser mortal. Esto es algo que Angie Wehrkamp y su familia saben muy bien; en 2015, Angie perdió a su hija Gianna, que...
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Flu season is here, and while many believe the flu isn’t serious, especially if they consider themselves “healthy,” it can sometimes be fatal. That’s a fact that Angie Wehrkamp and her family know all too well – in 2015, she lost her otherwise healthy daughter, Gianna, to the flu....
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Grace Gedye CalMatters If you work in California and your sister is undergoing cancer treatments, or your spouse gets knee surgery, you might be able to get paid while you take time off work to care for them. It’s a less well-known part of California’s paid family leave benefit,...
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Many Republican politicians love to brag about being prominent members of the Family Values Party, capitalized like that. It is the same party that in the last administration launched the cruel and inhumane separation of migrant families, the same one that installed barbed wire and deployed national guards on...
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María Elena Durazo, senadora demócrata de Los Ángeles, está renovando la lucha por un permiso familiar remunerado equitativo, con la esperanza de que sea una opción realista para más californianos de bajos ingresos. Después de que el gobernador Newsom vetó un proyecto de ley similar el otoño pasado que...