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LOS ANGELES — Hunger-fighting advocacy groups are speaking out in California, drawing attention to the continuing problem of food insecurity, and also to recent progress on that front. This month and next, families on the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program will get a fruit and vegetable benefit of $35, which...
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La asistencia gubernamental por la pandemia pudo haber ayudado a algunos californianos a evitar el uso de costosos préstamos de día de pago el año pasado, pero algunos expertos dicen que podría ser demasiado pronto para celebrar. Un nuevo informe encontró que en 2020, California experimentó una disminución del...
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Pandemic government assistance may have helped some Californians avoid using expensive payday loans last year, but some experts say it might be too early to celebrate. A new report found that in 2020, California saw a 40% decline in payday loans taken out compared to 2019, a drop equivalent...
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La renta básica universal fue defendida por Martin Luther King Jr., promovida por los ciudadanos de Silicon Valley como la “vacuna social para el siglo XXI” y respaldada por el candidato presidencial de 2016, Andrew Yang, pero nunca se ha popularizado realmente. Ahora puede que haya llegado el momento....
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Universal basic income was championed by Martin Luther King Jr., promoted by Silicon Valley citizens as the “social vaccine for the 21st century” and endorsed by 2016 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, but it has never really caught on. Now its time may have come. On Thursday California lawmakers approved the...
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The percentage is frightening. Coinciding with the widespread proliferation of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, more than 99.5% of recent deaths from COVID and more than 97% of hospitalizations correspond to unvaccinated people, according to figures from the United States Surgeon General. The tragic statistics confirm what seems...
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El porcentaje es espeluznante. En coincidencia con la proliferación generalizada de la variante Delta del coronavirus, más del 99.5% de las muertes recientes por COVID y más del 97% de las hospitalizaciones corresponden a personas no vacunadas, de acuerdo con las cifras del Cirujano General de los Estados Unidos....
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A pesar de décadas de reformas de justicia juvenil, California sigue encarcelando a muchos más jóvenes de color que a sus homólogos blancos, según un nuevo análisis. Una investigación recopilada por The Sentencing Project demuestra que los adolescentes negros tienen nueve veces más probabilidades de estar...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite decades of juvenile justice reforms, California is still incarcerating kids of color much more often than their white peers, according to a new analysis. Research collected by The Sentencing Project shows Black teens are nine times more likely to be locked up than white teens, and that’s...
LOS ANGELES — Hunger-fighting advocacy groups are speaking out in California, drawing attention to the continuing problem of food insecurity, and also to recent progress on that front. This month and next, families on the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program will get a fruit and vegetable benefit of $35, which...
La asistencia gubernamental por la pandemia pudo haber ayudado a algunos californianos a evitar el uso de costosos préstamos de día de pago el año pasado, pero algunos expertos dicen que podría ser demasiado pronto para celebrar. Un nuevo informe encontró que en 2020, California experimentó una disminución del...
Pandemic government assistance may have helped some Californians avoid using expensive payday loans last year, but some experts say it might be too early to celebrate. A new report found that in 2020, California saw a 40% decline in payday loans taken out compared to 2019, a drop equivalent...
La renta básica universal fue defendida por Martin Luther King Jr., promovida por los ciudadanos de Silicon Valley como la “vacuna social para el siglo XXI” y respaldada por el candidato presidencial de 2016, Andrew Yang, pero nunca se ha popularizado realmente. Ahora puede que haya llegado el momento....
Universal basic income was championed by Martin Luther King Jr., promoted by Silicon Valley citizens as the “social vaccine for the 21st century” and endorsed by 2016 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, but it has never really caught on. Now its time may have come. On Thursday California lawmakers approved the...
The percentage is frightening. Coinciding with the widespread proliferation of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, more than 99.5% of recent deaths from COVID and more than 97% of hospitalizations correspond to unvaccinated people, according to figures from the United States Surgeon General. The tragic statistics confirm what seems...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A pesar de décadas de reformas de justicia juvenil, California sigue encarcelando a muchos más jóvenes de color que a sus homólogos blancos, según un nuevo análisis. Una investigación recopilada por The Sentencing Project demuestra que los adolescentes negros tienen nueve veces más probabilidades de estar...