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Federal student loan payments resume this month after a three-year pause, but people in public service have until the end of the year to benefit from recent repayment reforms. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program will forgive the remainder of your federal student loan after you have worked for...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees walked off the job on October 4, initiating the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history, union officials said. Kaiser and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions were unable to reach a deal during a marathon bargaining session in...
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En 2016, durante un examen médico rutinario, Mati recibió una noticia que le cambió la vida. Los exámenes identificaron siete pequeños puntos en su cerebro. Se trataba de un diagnóstico certero de cáncer metastásico nivel cuatro. “Matilde, tú no durarás ni 6 meses”, le dijo su médico. “Eso me...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador Machines and human beings have had an incredible relationship. From the first mechanical creations that used human power to move to the steam engine and now the silicone chip, technology has allowed these assistants to humanity a greater depth of technical functionality and abilities that...
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Los sueños en su mayoría, se interpretan de forma simbólica y por medio de arquetipos, los cuales representan figuras universales, mayormente similares para todas las culturas. Lugares que desconocemos y sitios aislados, pueden representar durante el sueño, facetas de nuestra personalidad que quizá aún desconocemos, o que en algún...
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A California group formed after the firestorm that leveled the town of Paradise is stepping up to help Maui recover from its own disaster last month. Leaders from the Medspire nonprofit mobile clinic in Paradise donated money and expertise to medical staff on Maui. Elisabeth Gundersen, Medspire co-founder, said...
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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 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 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...