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Nigel Duara CalMatters Todo comenzó con un lugar de estacionamiento. En una tarde de septiembre de 2017, Chris Langer no pudo encontrar uno que acomodara su camioneta y la rampa que usa para su silla de ruedas detrás de una tienda de langostas de San Diego. Lo que sucedió...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters It all started with a parking spot. On a breezy afternoon in September 2017, Chris Langer couldn’t find one that would accommodate his van and the ramp he uses for his wheelchair behind a San Diego lobster shop. What transpired next has been the subject of...
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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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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Food banks across California are bracing for a feared spike in hunger amid inflated prices after a pandemic-era boost in food aid ends in April. March is the last month CalFresh recipients will get the additional benefits, as the federal government cuts off the “emergency allotments”...
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Starting in April, an estimated 2-3 million people could be dropped from Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income people. For three years during COVID, terminations were halted, but Congress recently voted to de-link the program from the Public Health Emergency. So California will have 14 months to re-evaluate eligibility for...
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Zaeem Shaikh CalMatters It took Xander nearly a decade to try community college again. The incoming American River College student first attempted higher education in North Carolina in 2013. But navigating campus as a man who is transgender was a nightmare, said Xander, who’s now 30 and asked to...
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Natalia Angeles always knew she was going to college despite being undocumented, so giving up the chance to attend a four-year university straight out of high school was not easy. But when the acceptance came from the University of California at Riverside, she quickly realized that without being able...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn, Michaella Huck & Julie Watts CalMatters “A lot of people would tell you to get to college,” said Cal State Northridge senior Christopher Carter, “but the hardest part is staying in college.” Carter speaks from experience: He arrived at Cal State as a business major, and discovered...
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Unos 40 millones de niños inscritos en Medicaid o CHIP (Programa de seguro médico para niños) en todo el país, corren el riesgo de perder su seguro médico debido a la expiración de la Emergencia de Salud Pública (PHE en inglés) por el COVID-19. La PHE ofreció garantía federal...