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Just 14% of California’s 94,000 undocumented college students receive some form of state financial aid, according to a new report. Researchers from the California Student Aid Commission found that only half of the people who are eligible for state aid for higher education even apply. Marlene Garcia, the commission’s executive...
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As public health funding winds down, gaps in vaccination rates are increasing. Particularly for booster doses, the gap among racial and ethnic groups is widening significantly. When California recorded the first U.S. case of COVID-19 more than three years ago, the news was met with fear, confusion and public ire. Schools...
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A medida que disminuye el financiamiento de la salud pública, aumentan las brechas en las tasas de vacunación. Particularmente para las dosis de refuerzo, la brecha entre los grupos raciales y étnicos se está ampliando significativamente. Cuando California registró el primer caso de COVID-19 en EE. UU. hace más...
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Shannon and Eve Mingalone avow that their farmers market booth is “very gay.” They hang strings of pride flags and sell rainbow stickers to help pay for gender-affirming care, like hormone replacement therapy, for Eve. Sometimes, when parents and their teenagers pass the booth, the adults glance, then speed...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services Following 90 minutes of public comments from passionate speakers on both sides of the issue, the Seattle, Washington City Council Feb. 21 made history as it passed the first law in the nation banning caste discrimination. The measure passed on a 6-1 vote, with...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services Luego de 90 minutos de comentarios públicos de oradores apasionados de ambos lados del tema, el 21 de febrero, el Concejo Municipal de Seattle, Washington, hizo historia al aprobar la primera ley en la nación que prohíbe la discriminación por castas. La medida fue...
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Peter White Ethnic Media Services Young people are coming of age without knowing how to create a loving relationship or what the warning signs are that maybe they’re not in a good one. So says Ana Campos, 17, who was blinded by “fake love” and thought everything was fine....
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Los afroamericanos han desempeñado un papel fundamental en Wyoming desde la década de 1860, cuando sirvieron como soldados en Fort Laramie y fueron propietarios y operadores de algunos de los primeros negocios de Cheyenne, que son solo algunas de las pepitas históricas descubiertas por el Proyecto Black Wyoming financiado...
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African Americans have played a foundational role in Wyoming since the 1860s, when they served as soldiers at Fort Laramie, and owned and operated some of Cheyenne’s first businesses, which are just some of the historic nuggets uncovered by the Black Wyoming Project funded by the National Park Service....