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Felicia Mello CalMatters The weekend. The eight-hour workday. Paid family leave. Those fruits of labor victories are part of everyday life in California. Now the state’s hot labor summer may have helped inspire another precedent-setting measure, if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill on his desk that would allow...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services El proyecto de ley 435 del Senado de California — que propone recopilar datos desglosados sobre las subpoblaciones latinas y las comunidades indígenas — se dirige al escritorio del gobernador Gavin Newsom para su firma. El proyecto de ley — patrocinado por la senadora...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services California Senate Bill 435 — which proposes to collect disaggregated data on Latino sub-populations as well as Indigenous communities — is headed to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for signing. The bill — sponsored by Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat — was presented to Newsom...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters Una semana después de que las negociaciones para rescatar el tambaleante mercado de seguros de vivienda de California se estancaran en la Legislatura , el principal regulador de seguros del estado presentó su propio plan de rescate que efectivamente equivale a un intercambio para las principales aseguradoras del...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters A week after negotiations to rescue California’s floundering home insurance market stalled out in the Legislature, the state’s top insurance regulator put out his own rescue plan that effectively amounts to a trade for the state’s major insurers. Under proposed regulations Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced this...
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For many people, the annual spectacle of a possible federal government shutdown in the face of chronic budget disagreements in Congress has become normalized. But a normalization of political dysfunction in Washington is unacceptable because the main victims are the most vulnerable among us: If the federal government is...
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Para muchas personas, se ha normalizado el espectáculo anual de un posible cierre del gobierno federal ante los crónicos desacuerdos presupuestales en el Congreso. Pero una normalización de la disfuncionalidad política en Washington es inaceptable porque las principales víctimas son los más vulnerables entre nosotros: Si el gobierno federal queda paralizado...
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Pilar Marrero Ethnic Media Services Uno de los muchos conceptos erróneos sobre la comunidad latina de Estados Unidos es que son un lastre para la economía del país. Pero ¿sabía usted que, si los latinos fueran un país independiente, serían la quinta economía del mundo, más grande que la...
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Pilar Marrero Ethnic Media Services One of the many misconceptions about the U.S. Latino community is that it is a drag on the country’s economy. But if U.S. Latinos were an independent country, they would be the fifth largest economy in the world, larger than India, the United Kingdom,...