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Alyssa Story & Carmen González CalMatters For the last decade Teague O’Shea has been in and out of college. Now, at 42 years old, he is trying again. Furthering his education was important to O’Shea, who had been working as an apprentice electrician for his local water district, but...
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Alyssa Story & Carmen González CalMatters Durante la última década, Teague O’Shea ha estado entrando y saliendo de la universidad. Ahora, a los 42 años, vuelve a intentarlo. Continuar su educación era importante para O’Shea, quien había estado trabajando como aprendiz de electricista para su distrito de agua local,...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters California solía necesitar muchas, pero muchas prisiones. Prisiones grandes, prisiones pequeñas, prisiones con celdas especiales para líderes de pandillas y prisiones para condenados por artimañas financieras consideradas no violentas. Había tantos presos amontonados en tantas prisiones que los tribunales federales intervinieron y ordenaron que el estado...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters California used to need lots and lots of prisons. Big prisons, little prisons, prisons with special cells for gang leaders and prisons for those convicted of nonviolent financial chicanery. There were so many prisoners packed into so many prisons that federal courts intervened, mandating that the...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Martha Herrera trabajó durante cuatro años como niñera en San Francisco, ayudando a cuidar a una niña pequeña que tiene discapacidades físicas y del desarrollo. El trabajo incluía ayudar a la niña a llegar a casa de la escuela, cargarla y bañarla. Un día, mientras cargaba...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Martha Herrera worked for four years as a nanny in San Francisco, helping to care for a little girl who has physical and developmental disabilities. The job included helping the girl get home from school, and carrying her and bathing her. One day while carrying the...
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As public health funding winds down, gaps in vaccination rates are increasing. Particularly for booster doses, the gap among racial and ethnic groups is widening significantly. When California recorded the first U.S. case of COVID-19 more than three years ago, the news was met with fear, confusion and public ire. Schools...
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A medida que disminuye el financiamiento de la salud pública, aumentan las brechas en las tasas de vacunación. Particularmente para las dosis de refuerzo, la brecha entre los grupos raciales y étnicos se está ampliando significativamente. Cuando California registró el primer caso de COVID-19 en EE. UU. hace más...
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Alejandro Lazo CalMatters Malcolm Harris grew up in the intellectual heart of Silicon Valley, where people are “educated, rich, healthy, innovative” and yet so haunted by the sins of history that the city of Palo Alto had the nation’s highest youth suicide rate for more than a decade. This is the...