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Phoebe S. Moore, Megan Kelly & Yael Dvir The Conversation It’s 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about a friend issue, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, opens an AI app and types, “I’m so stressed out, I can’t sleep.” A reply...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Xavier Becerra says California needs to build more housing by reducing permitting times and making affordable housing funding easier to access, but he doesn’t want to say how many new homes he would deliver as governor. To address inequality, he’s considering whether the public should own...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Just days before the start of school, some California State University students were still waiting to find out how much they’re getting in grants and loans, and university officials are blaming the federal government for those delays. But despite a flurry of social media complaints about...
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The changes to Medi-Cal are coming fast and furious, but California funds a network of thousands of community health workers, also known as promotoras, to help low-income families understand health insurance options. A few years ago, the state added the services as a benefit in Medi-Cal, which is the...
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La nueva ofensiva de la administración Trump contra el llamado “turismo de parto” coloca una pregunta incómoda en el centro del debate migratorio: ¿cuándo un viaje de una mujer embarazada es turismo legítimo y cuándo se convierte en fraude? El presidente Donald Trump firmó este 6 de agosto una...
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While Susan Alleman thought surviving breast cancer would mean putting the hardest chapter of her life behind her, it turns out that was just the start of her travails. Alleman is among millions of Americans who are now seeing their health care premiums rise. Many are being forced to...
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One year after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations surged through Los Angeles County, many Latino businesses are still struggling to recover the customers, revenue and sense of security they lost. A UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) report found that 989 formal businesses within a half-mile of nine immigration enforcement...
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Adam Ashton CalMatters Editor’s note: This story contains a term for a 1950s federal immigration program that some might find offensive. Pablo Espinoza and his older son were at the California Museum in downtown Sacramento checking out an exhibit on the World War II internment of Japanese Americans when...
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Wendy Fry & Sergio Olmos CalMatters A judge on Thursday August 13 indicated that she’s inclined to order federal immigration agents to stop arresting people without warrants in Los Angeles if they haven’t assessed their flight risk. If she grants the order, it would be one of the most significant so...
Phoebe S. Moore, Megan Kelly & Yael Dvir The Conversation It’s 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about a friend issue, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, opens an AI app and types, “I’m so stressed out, I can’t sleep.” A reply...
Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Xavier Becerra says California needs to build more housing by reducing permitting times and making affordable housing funding easier to access, but he doesn’t want to say how many new homes he would deliver as governor. To address inequality, he’s considering whether the public should own...
Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Just days before the start of school, some California State University students were still waiting to find out how much they’re getting in grants and loans, and university officials are blaming the federal government for those delays. But despite a flurry of social media complaints about...
The changes to Medi-Cal are coming fast and furious, but California funds a network of thousands of community health workers, also known as promotoras, to help low-income families understand health insurance options. A few years ago, the state added the services as a benefit in Medi-Cal, which is the...
La nueva ofensiva de la administración Trump contra el llamado “turismo de parto” coloca una pregunta incómoda en el centro del debate migratorio: ¿cuándo un viaje de una mujer embarazada es turismo legítimo y cuándo se convierte en fraude? El presidente Donald Trump firmó este 6 de agosto una...
While Susan Alleman thought surviving breast cancer would mean putting the hardest chapter of her life behind her, it turns out that was just the start of her travails. Alleman is among millions of Americans who are now seeing their health care premiums rise. Many are being forced to...
One year after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations surged through Los Angeles County, many Latino businesses are still struggling to recover the customers, revenue and sense of security they lost. A UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) report found that 989 formal businesses within a half-mile of nine immigration enforcement...
Adam Ashton CalMatters Editor’s note: This story contains a term for a 1950s federal immigration program that some might find offensive. Pablo Espinoza and his older son were at the California Museum in downtown Sacramento checking out an exhibit on the World War II internment of Japanese Americans when...
Wendy Fry & Sergio Olmos CalMatters A judge on Thursday August 13 indicated that she’s inclined to order federal immigration agents to stop arresting people without warrants in Los Angeles if they haven’t assessed their flight risk. If she grants the order, it would be one of the most significant so...