• Keep Covid Off Your Holiday Guest List

    Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services The holiday season is here. And, as we comb through our collections of treasured holiday ornaments, put Santa and his reindeer on the lawn, and plan elaborate feasts, health experts advise us to devise a strategy to keep our beloved friends and family safe...
  • CA Línea de Protección contra Pandemia sobre Seguro Médico para Niños

    Durante 2021, el primer año después de que comenzó la pandemia, California logro mantener asegurado a más del 96 % de los niños, según un nuevo informe de la Universidad de Georgetown. Los autores dan crédito a una ley federal que otorgo dinero extra a los estados para que nadie dejara...
  • CA Pandemic Protections Held Line on Children’s Health Insurance

    During 2021, the first year after the pandemic began, California managed to keep more than 96% of children insured, according to a new report from Georgetown University. The authors credit a federal law which gave states extra money so no one would be dropped from Medicaid during COVID. Joan...
  • Proteja su salud: vacúnese contra la influenza (gripe) hoy

    La temporada contra la influenza (gripe) está aquí y los adultos con ciertas afecciones crónicas, como asma, enfermedades del corazón y diabetes, están en mayor riesgo de presentar complicaciones graves a causa de la influenza, incluso la hospitalización o hasta la muerte. De hecho, durante temporadas de influenza pasadas,...
  • The need for bold action to address our children’s mental health

    If you want to understand the seriousness of the crisis facing California’s kids, just ask the team running Fresno County’s “All 4 Youth” mental health program. When students returned to school last fall, mental health referrals doubled. The list of concerns was long: suicidal thoughts, disciplinary challenges, depression, anxiety....
  • Activists: Access to Guns and Domestic Violence Are a ‘Deadly Mix’

    Jenny Manrique Ethnic Medias Services After surviving five shots in the head, dodging bullets and running bloodied to ask her neighbors for help, Pauletta Perez wondered several times why the person she trusted the most, her husband, wanted to kill her. Very soon after getting married, Perez had become...
  • The Lambda COVID variant is in California: 5 things to know

    A new COVID-19 variant — named lambda — has arrived in California. The emerging lambda variant has been popping up in the news as it spreads rapidly throughout South America. In California, at least 152 cases have been reported, the first as early as September 2020, according to state...
  • El impulso multimillonario del gobernador al presupuesto de educación piensa grande

    Diane Bernard California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Quienes defienden la educación aplauden la revisión presupuestaria del gobernador Gavin Newsom, que inyecta casi 122 billones a las escuelas públicas, el nivel más alto de fondeo en la historia de California. El dinero apoyara al “Plan California Para Todos los Niños,...
  • Governor’s Multibillion Dollar Boost to Education Budget Thinks Big

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Education advocates are cheering Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget revision, which pours almost $122 billion into public schools, the highest level of funding in California’s history. The money will support the California for All Kids Plan, a five-year strategy of public school investment....
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