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With the enactment of the mega fiscal and immigration package, stricter work requirements are included to be eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. SNAP was designed to help low-income individuals and families purchase nutritious food. More than 42 million people benefit. Approximately...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters In Kern County, the first rule in counting homeless students is not saying “homeless.” Instead, school staff use phrases like “struggling with stable housing” or “families in transition.” The approach seems to have worked: More families are sharing their housing status with their children’s schools, which...
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Nigel Duara & Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Una mañana de viernes de junio, una serie de llamadas frenéticas sacaron a Carlos de un profundo sueño. Cuando llegó a una fábrica de ropa del centro de Los Ángeles, poco después de las 10 de la mañana, su hermano estaba encadenado. Agentes de una...
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Nigel Duara & Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Carlos was pulled out of a deep sleep by a series of frantic phone calls one Friday morning in June. By the time he arrived at a downtown Los Angeles garment factory sometime after 10 a.m., his brother was in chains. Agents from a constellation...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters El extremo norte del barrio de Vermont Square en el sur de Los Ángeles se gentrificó de muchas de las maneras habituales durante la última década. Los ingresos medios se dispararon. La proporción de residentes negros en el barrio disminuyó. En la lista de las zonas...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters The northern tip of the Vermont Square neighborhood in South Los Angeles gentrified in many of the usual ways over the last decade. Median incomes shot up. The neighborhood’s share of Black residents declined. On the list of fastest growing home prices across the region, Vermont Square...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Las mujeres embarazadas están gravemente inmunodeprimidas durante la gestación, pero en EE. UU. ya no serán elegibles para la vacuna Covid-19. El Secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., anunció la semana pasada que la vacuna Covid-19 ya no estará entre...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Pregnant women are severely immunocompromised during gestation, but in the US they will no longer be eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced last week that the Covid-19 vaccine will no longer be among the Centers...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters Se han descubierto contaminantes conocidos como “químicos permanentes” en el pescado de la Bahía de San Francisco en niveles que podrían representar una amenaza para la salud de las personas que consumen pescado capturado allí, según una nueva investigación publicada hoy. Vinculadas a diversas afecciones de...
With the enactment of the mega fiscal and immigration package, stricter work requirements are included to be eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. SNAP was designed to help low-income individuals and families purchase nutritious food. More than 42 million people benefit. Approximately...
Carolyn Jones CalMatters In Kern County, the first rule in counting homeless students is not saying “homeless.” Instead, school staff use phrases like “struggling with stable housing” or “families in transition.” The approach seems to have worked: More families are sharing their housing status with their children’s schools, which...
Nigel Duara & Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Una mañana de viernes de junio, una serie de llamadas frenéticas sacaron a Carlos de un profundo sueño. Cuando llegó a una fábrica de ropa del centro de Los Ángeles, poco después de las 10 de la mañana, su hermano estaba encadenado. Agentes de una...
Nigel Duara & Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Carlos was pulled out of a deep sleep by a series of frantic phone calls one Friday morning in June. By the time he arrived at a downtown Los Angeles garment factory sometime after 10 a.m., his brother was in chains. Agents from a constellation...
Ben Christopher CalMatters El extremo norte del barrio de Vermont Square en el sur de Los Ángeles se gentrificó de muchas de las maneras habituales durante la última década. Los ingresos medios se dispararon. La proporción de residentes negros en el barrio disminuyó. En la lista de las zonas...
Ben Christopher CalMatters The northern tip of the Vermont Square neighborhood in South Los Angeles gentrified in many of the usual ways over the last decade. Median incomes shot up. The neighborhood’s share of Black residents declined. On the list of fastest growing home prices across the region, Vermont Square...
Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Las mujeres embarazadas están gravemente inmunodeprimidas durante la gestación, pero en EE. UU. ya no serán elegibles para la vacuna Covid-19. El Secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., anunció la semana pasada que la vacuna Covid-19 ya no estará entre...
Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Pregnant women are severely immunocompromised during gestation, but in the US they will no longer be eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced last week that the Covid-19 vaccine will no longer be among the Centers...
Rachel Becker CalMatters Se han descubierto contaminantes conocidos como “químicos permanentes” en el pescado de la Bahía de San Francisco en niveles que podrían representar una amenaza para la salud de las personas que consumen pescado capturado allí, según una nueva investigación publicada hoy. Vinculadas a diversas afecciones de...