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The median emergency savings for Americans is $500, according to new Empower research. The size of the safety net varies by generation, with Boomers saving a median of $2,000 – five times that of Gen Z’s reserves of $400. One-third of Americans (32%) don’t have an emergency savings fund...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters La primavera pasada, el Hospital Palo Verde en Blythe estuvo al borde del cierre, después de que una serie de contratiempos financieros lo dejaran sin fondos. En mayo, el hospital anunció que no aceptaría nuevos pacientes “en el futuro previsible”, aunque su sala de emergencias y...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters Last spring, Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe was on the brink of closure, after a series of financial mishaps left it bleeding cash. In May, the hospital announced that it would not accept new patients, “for the foreseeable future,” although its emergency room and clinic remained...
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Protect your children from the most profound impact of deportations: family separation. In the United States, 5.4 million American citizen children have undocumented parents, which leaves them in a vulnerable situation. For these families, the threat of deportation is not only a daily concern, but a real risk that...
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Wendy Fry CalMatters Undocumented immigrants and their California families braced for the worst — and many told CalMatters they would go underground — as newly sworn-in President Donald Trump began issuing executive orders to enable what he promises will be the most massive deportation in U.S. history. “It’s draining my...
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Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters Era el viernes por la mañana cuando el agua fangosa y color marrón comenzó a precipitarse sobre las granjas del Valle de Salinas de Michelle Hackett. A un lado del negocio de cannabis Riverview Farms de su familia, se desbordó un...
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Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters It was late Friday morning when muddy, brown water started rushing onto Michelle Hackett’s Salinas Valley farms. On one side of her family’s Riverview Farms cannabis business, a county-mandated retention pond overflowed. Next door, a farm abandoned by another grower —...
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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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California’s COVID-19 state of emergency will end Feb. 28, 2023, nearly three years from its initiation, officials from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced on October 17. The announcement came as new variants spur concerns that there will be another deadly winter surge across the country and as test positivity rates plateau...
The median emergency savings for Americans is $500, according to new Empower research. The size of the safety net varies by generation, with Boomers saving a median of $2,000 – five times that of Gen Z’s reserves of $400. One-third of Americans (32%) don’t have an emergency savings fund...
Deborah Brennan CalMatters La primavera pasada, el Hospital Palo Verde en Blythe estuvo al borde del cierre, después de que una serie de contratiempos financieros lo dejaran sin fondos. En mayo, el hospital anunció que no aceptaría nuevos pacientes “en el futuro previsible”, aunque su sala de emergencias y...
Deborah Brennan CalMatters Last spring, Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe was on the brink of closure, after a series of financial mishaps left it bleeding cash. In May, the hospital announced that it would not accept new patients, “for the foreseeable future,” although its emergency room and clinic remained...
Protect your children from the most profound impact of deportations: family separation. In the United States, 5.4 million American citizen children have undocumented parents, which leaves them in a vulnerable situation. For these families, the threat of deportation is not only a daily concern, but a real risk that...
Wendy Fry CalMatters Undocumented immigrants and their California families braced for the worst — and many told CalMatters they would go underground — as newly sworn-in President Donald Trump began issuing executive orders to enable what he promises will be the most massive deportation in U.S. history. “It’s draining my...
Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters Era el viernes por la mañana cuando el agua fangosa y color marrón comenzó a precipitarse sobre las granjas del Valle de Salinas de Michelle Hackett. A un lado del negocio de cannabis Riverview Farms de su familia, se desbordó un...
Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters It was late Friday morning when muddy, brown water started rushing onto Michelle Hackett’s Salinas Valley farms. On one side of her family’s Riverview Farms cannabis business, a county-mandated retention pond overflowed. Next door, a farm abandoned by another grower —...
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...
California’s COVID-19 state of emergency will end Feb. 28, 2023, nearly three years from its initiation, officials from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced on October 17. The announcement came as new variants spur concerns that there will be another deadly winter surge across the country and as test positivity rates plateau...