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The world’s richest 1% took home almost twice as much wealth as the bottom 99% combined during the pandemic, according to a new Oxfam International report. Morris Pearl, chair of the group Patriotic Millionaires, said current tax codes are not cutting it anymore. The rich keep getting richer while people...
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Alexei Koseff CalMatters California will delay some spending commitments, reverse recent steps to shore up its fiscal health and shift funding sources to limit the cuts it must make to close a projected $22.5 billion budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom said last week. The shortfall, slightly less than the $24...
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Groups that fight hunger say they’re “deeply disappointed” in the new budget proposal released Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Last year, the Legislature approved $40 million to expand food assistance to low-income people over age 55, regardless of immigration status. But now, the governor wants to delay it until 2027....
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Starting in April, an estimated 2-3 million people could be dropped from Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income people. For three years during COVID, terminations were halted, but Congress recently voted to de-link the program from the Public Health Emergency. So California will have 14 months to re-evaluate eligibility for...
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President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Jan. 10 to discuss the U.S.-Mexico-Canada relationship. The meeting focused heavily on immigration. In this interview, Ariel Ruiz Soto, policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute discusses the summit, and significant policy changes...
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La pesadilla de los republicanos en el congreso es una gran oportunidad para que los moderados construyan una agenda bipartidista. Le va a salir muy caro el triunfo al nuevo presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, el republicano de California Kevin McCarthy. No sólo necesitó 15 desesperadas y dramáticas rondas...
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Antiguas civilizaciones consideraron una gran cuantía de hierbas como regalo de los dioses, con las cuales los mortales practicaban rituales que daban paso a la creación de portentos mágicos. Al mismo tiempo les utilizaban para sanar todo tipo de padecimientos. En la actualidad las hierbas medicinales son recetadas para...
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Drive almost anywhere in the farm fields of California and you will see blurred shapes on the horizon, men and women who produce the majority of the country’s food. Although recognized as essential workers, their work has exposed and continues to expose them to the most severe impacts of...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Plastic, originally hailed for its longevity and hygienic single-use properties, is one of the newest battlegrounds for environmentalists and world governments. Though bans of some forms of plastic exist in more than 60 countries around the world, a global ban has proven to...
The world’s richest 1% took home almost twice as much wealth as the bottom 99% combined during the pandemic, according to a new Oxfam International report. Morris Pearl, chair of the group Patriotic Millionaires, said current tax codes are not cutting it anymore. The rich keep getting richer while people...
Alexei Koseff CalMatters California will delay some spending commitments, reverse recent steps to shore up its fiscal health and shift funding sources to limit the cuts it must make to close a projected $22.5 billion budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom said last week. The shortfall, slightly less than the $24...
Groups that fight hunger say they’re “deeply disappointed” in the new budget proposal released Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Last year, the Legislature approved $40 million to expand food assistance to low-income people over age 55, regardless of immigration status. But now, the governor wants to delay it until 2027....
Starting in April, an estimated 2-3 million people could be dropped from Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income people. For three years during COVID, terminations were halted, but Congress recently voted to de-link the program from the Public Health Emergency. So California will have 14 months to re-evaluate eligibility for...
President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Jan. 10 to discuss the U.S.-Mexico-Canada relationship. The meeting focused heavily on immigration. In this interview, Ariel Ruiz Soto, policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute discusses the summit, and significant policy changes...
La pesadilla de los republicanos en el congreso es una gran oportunidad para que los moderados construyan una agenda bipartidista. Le va a salir muy caro el triunfo al nuevo presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, el republicano de California Kevin McCarthy. No sólo necesitó 15 desesperadas y dramáticas rondas...
Antiguas civilizaciones consideraron una gran cuantía de hierbas como regalo de los dioses, con las cuales los mortales practicaban rituales que daban paso a la creación de portentos mágicos. Al mismo tiempo les utilizaban para sanar todo tipo de padecimientos. En la actualidad las hierbas medicinales son recetadas para...
Drive almost anywhere in the farm fields of California and you will see blurred shapes on the horizon, men and women who produce the majority of the country’s food. Although recognized as essential workers, their work has exposed and continues to expose them to the most severe impacts of...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Plastic, originally hailed for its longevity and hygienic single-use properties, is one of the newest battlegrounds for environmentalists and world governments. Though bans of some forms of plastic exist in more than 60 countries around the world, a global ban has proven to...