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Mark Hedin Ethnic Media Services If your memories of last winter’s dozen “atmospheric rivers” have faded, Mother Nature is preparing a soaking wet reminder, with parts of the West Coast possibly looking at a month’s worth of rain by midweek and another close on its heels around Christmastime. The...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters When California lawmakers passed a rent cap four years ago to protect tenants from large and frequent rent hikes, they exempted hundreds of thousands of units reserved for some of the state’s poorest renters. Low-income housing, after all, is usually built with public subsidies that already impose rent...
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El aumento anual invernal de infecciones por COVID ya está aquí, pero hasta ahora, solo el 10% de los californianos ha recibido la última vacuna de refuerzo, según el panel de vacunación estatal. La vacuna de refuerzo de COVID más reciente salió en septiembre, pero solo el 27% de...
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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....
Mark Hedin Ethnic Media Services If your memories of last winter’s dozen “atmospheric rivers” have faded, Mother Nature is preparing a soaking wet reminder, with parts of the West Coast possibly looking at a month’s worth of rain by midweek and another close on its heels around Christmastime. The...
Jeanne Kuang CalMatters When California lawmakers passed a rent cap four years ago to protect tenants from large and frequent rent hikes, they exempted hundreds of thousands of units reserved for some of the state’s poorest renters. Low-income housing, after all, is usually built with public subsidies that already impose rent...
El aumento anual invernal de infecciones por COVID ya está aquí, pero hasta ahora, solo el 10% de los californianos ha recibido la última vacuna de refuerzo, según el panel de vacunación estatal. La vacuna de refuerzo de COVID más reciente salió en septiembre, pero solo el 27% de...
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....