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Polls show a majority of Americans aren’t comfortable with current immigration enforcement. Still, Congressional Republicans want to provide an extra $70 billion for such operations, with proposed reforms in doubt, and California union voices are worried. The GOP has resisted calls for requiring ICE and Border Patrol agents to go without...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media During a period marked by soaring food prices, more than 3 million people have lost access to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — SNAP — over the past 10 months. An additional 1 million more are expected to lose the critical food safety...
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Ryan Sabalow CalMatters Californians would have to take a four-hour course with live-fire training to buy a gun if a bill advancing through the Legislature gets signed into law. Senate Bill 948, by Berkeley Democratic Sen. Jesse Arreguín, also would require gun owners moving to California to obtain a firearm...
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Lawmakers in Sacramento are considering a range of cuts to programs that serve older Californians as budget negotiations draw to a close. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget revision would trim funds for in-home care. It also would make victims of elder abuse eligible for help at age 65 instead of 60....
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Los colegios comunitarios de California representan el sistema de educación superior más grande del país: más de 2 millones de estudiantes, o 60 veces la población estudiantil de pregrado de la UC Berkeley. Pero al recorrer un campus de un colegio comunitario, a menudo es difícil...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters California’s community colleges represent the largest higher education system in the country — more than 2 million students, or 60 times the undergraduate population of UC Berkeley. But walking around a community college campus, it’s often hard to tell. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, cafeterias and local...
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La escalada de la situación en el centro de detención de ICE en Delaney Hall en Newark, Nueva Jersey, se ha convertido rápidamente en un foco rojo en el debate migratorio nacional. Con cientos de detenidos en huelgas de hambre o de trabajo debido a las condiciones de vida,...
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Dan Walters CalMatters Two weeks from now we’ll probably know which of the 61 candidates for governor have finished 1-2 in the primary election and will face each other in November for the dubious honor of governing a state that may be ungovernable. The weasel adverb “probably” is warranted...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador Nothing exemplifies the era of films from the 1980s quite like seeing the iconic shine of the stainless- steel DMC DeLorean time machine, the red vest of Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly and unkept white hair of Doctor Emmett Brown. The story, characters, and music...