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The annual winter rise in COVID infections is here, but so far, only 10% of Californians have gotten the latest booster shot, according to the state vaccination dashboard. The most recent COVID booster shot came out in September, but only 27% of people over age 65 had received it as...
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters Durante seis generaciones desde que emigró de México a Estados Unidos, la familia de Clarissa Rentería nunca ha votado. Si llegaban sobres de campaña durante la temporada electoral, los padres de Rentería, quienes trabajaban como empleados de un almacén en Woodlake, un pueblo agrícola de...
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters For six generations since emigrating from Mexico to America, Clarissa Renteria’s family never voted. If any campaign mailers arrived during election season, Renteria’s parents — who both worked as warehouse workers in Woodlake, an agricultural town of 7,600 in California’s citrus belt — would throw...
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Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters California’s poverty rate climbed in the first quarter of 2023, the latest quarter measured by the Public Policy Institute of California. Poverty increased from 11.7% in 2021 to 13.2%, the institute said, with 5 million people living in poverty. Safety net programs played a major role...
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Shreya Agrawal CalMatters Decenas de miles de californianos están perdiendo su seguro médico cada mes a medida que el estado reanuda la verificación de la elegibilidad de las personas para Medi-Cal, que suspendió durante la emergencia de salud pública de COVID-19. Se evaluará la elegibilidad de alrededor de 16...
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Shreya Agrawal CalMatters Tens of thousands of Californians are losing health insurance every month as the state resumes checking people’s eligibility for Medi-Cal, which it suspended during the COVID-19 public health emergency. About 16 million people in California will be evaluated for eligibility from June 2023 to May 2024....
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Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services Between June 2023 and May 2024, 15.5 million Medi-Cal enrollees — one-third of all Californians — will have their eligibility redetermined as part of the “great unwinding” of Medicaid enrollees underway nationwide. At a briefing held by EMS and California Black Media, state health...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters Losing income is the No. 1 reason Californians end up homeless – and the vast majority of them say a subsidy of as little as $300 a month could have kept them off the streets. That’s according to a new study out of UC San Francisco...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Medication abortion is still legal in California and across the U.S. A preliminary U.S. Supreme Court order on Friday April 21 preserves the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone until the full merits of the case are heard by the...
The annual winter rise in COVID infections is here, but so far, only 10% of Californians have gotten the latest booster shot, according to the state vaccination dashboard. The most recent COVID booster shot came out in September, but only 27% of people over age 65 had received it as...
Yue Stella Yu CalMatters Durante seis generaciones desde que emigró de México a Estados Unidos, la familia de Clarissa Rentería nunca ha votado. Si llegaban sobres de campaña durante la temporada electoral, los padres de Rentería, quienes trabajaban como empleados de un almacén en Woodlake, un pueblo agrícola de...
Yue Stella Yu CalMatters For six generations since emigrating from Mexico to America, Clarissa Renteria’s family never voted. If any campaign mailers arrived during election season, Renteria’s parents — who both worked as warehouse workers in Woodlake, an agricultural town of 7,600 in California’s citrus belt — would throw...
Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters California’s poverty rate climbed in the first quarter of 2023, the latest quarter measured by the Public Policy Institute of California. Poverty increased from 11.7% in 2021 to 13.2%, the institute said, with 5 million people living in poverty. Safety net programs played a major role...
Shreya Agrawal CalMatters Decenas de miles de californianos están perdiendo su seguro médico cada mes a medida que el estado reanuda la verificación de la elegibilidad de las personas para Medi-Cal, que suspendió durante la emergencia de salud pública de COVID-19. Se evaluará la elegibilidad de alrededor de 16...
Shreya Agrawal CalMatters Tens of thousands of Californians are losing health insurance every month as the state resumes checking people’s eligibility for Medi-Cal, which it suspended during the COVID-19 public health emergency. About 16 million people in California will be evaluated for eligibility from June 2023 to May 2024....
Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services Between June 2023 and May 2024, 15.5 million Medi-Cal enrollees — one-third of all Californians — will have their eligibility redetermined as part of the “great unwinding” of Medicaid enrollees underway nationwide. At a briefing held by EMS and California Black Media, state health...
Marisa Kendall CalMatters Losing income is the No. 1 reason Californians end up homeless – and the vast majority of them say a subsidy of as little as $300 a month could have kept them off the streets. That’s according to a new study out of UC San Francisco...
Kristen Hwang CalMatters Medication abortion is still legal in California and across the U.S. A preliminary U.S. Supreme Court order on Friday April 21 preserves the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone until the full merits of the case are heard by the...