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Tens of thousands of California’s guest farmworkers and U.S. farmworkers will see pay increases in 2022, which advocates say comes thanks to their lawsuit to stop a Trump-era wage freeze. The wage increase is based on the USDA’s annual survey findings on farm labor, released on Nov. 24. The survey...
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Decenas de miles de trabajadores agrícolas invitados de California y trabajadores agrícolas estadounidenses verán aumentos salariales en 2022, lo que, según los defensores, se debe a su demanda para detener la congelación salarial de la era Trump. El aumento salarial se basa en los resultados de la encuesta anual del...
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Sameea Kamal CalMatters As the coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of ending, California is still recovering from the most damaging recession since the Great Depression. By October, California had regained only about two-thirds of the 2.7 million jobs lost in the early months of the pandemic. The state lags behind the...
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Sameea Kamal CalMatters Como la pandemia de coronavirus no muestra signos de terminar, California todavía se está recuperando de la recesión más dañina desde la Gran Depresión. Para octubre, California había recuperado solo alrededor de dos tercios de los 2,7 millones de puestos de trabajo perdidos en los primeros meses de...
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Este mes, South San Francisco envió los primeros cheques mensuales de $500 a alrededor de 150 familias de bajos ingresos para gastarlos como mejor les parezca. South San Francisco es la última ciudad del Área de la Bahía en lanzar un programa piloto de ingresos garantizados, en el que...
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South San Francisco this month sent out the first $500 monthly checks to around 150 low-income families to spend however they see fit. South San Francisco is the latest Bay Area city to launch a guaranteed income pilot program – in which participants receive monthly cash payments with no strings...
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Labor protests and strikes are on the upswing this fall, compared with 2020 when everyone hunkered as the pandemic closed whole sectors of the economy. According to the Cornell University Strike Tracker, California has seen 60 labor strikes from January to the end of November, and...
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Las protestas y huelgas laborales están al alza este otoño, en comparación con 2020, cuando todos se escondieron y la pandemia cerro sectores enteros de la economía. Según el Strike Tracker de la Universidad de Cornell, California ha visto 60 huelgas laborales desde enero hasta finales de...
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When Rebecca Pariso agreed to join a team of educators tasked in late 2019 with California’s new mathematics framework, she said she expected some controversy. But she didn’t expect her work would be in the national spotlight. “We were transforming math education, and change is hard and scary,” said Pariso,...