low income

  • NEWSOM ANNOUNCES $5 BILLION ‘GOLDEN STATE STIMULUS’ WITH CASH AND RENT RELIEF FOR LOW-INCOME PEOPLE

    California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the $5 billion ‘Golden State Stimulus’ proposal Jan. 6, with $2.4 billion in direct payments to low-income families and an additional $2.6 billion to help renters facing eviction amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Newsom also announced a possible extension of the state’s eviction moratorium —...
  • Informe: Las familias de color tienen menos acceso a la naturaleza

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Las familias de color de bajos ingresos en California, especialmente aquellas con niños, tienen el doble de probabilidades que sus contrapartes blancas de vivir en áreas sin fácil acceso a parques y otras áreas naturales, según un nuevo informe. Los investigadores observaron cuánta tierra se ha...
  • Report: Families of Color Have Less Access to Nature

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Low-income families of color in California, especially those with children, are twice as likely as their white counterparts to live in areas without easy access to parks and other natural areas, according to a new report. Researchers looked at how much land has been lost to development,...
  • Children’s Groups Promote Plan to Link Medi-Cal, WIC Food Assistance

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California Legislature came back from summer break this week, and children’s advocacy groups want them to take up a bill to link eligibility for the Medi-Cal and WIC food-assistance programs to create a kind of one-stop shop enrollment process.  About 87,000 low-income children who receive...
  • Trump Administration Proposes Raising Rents on Low-Income Families

    Co-op Housing Groups Offer Alternative Suzanne Potter California News Service OAKLAND Calif. – Groups that work on issues of poverty and housing are criticizing the Trump administration’s proposal to raise rents on low-income families and institute work requirements. On Wednesday, Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, announced...
  • Report: Two-Thirds of CA Children Born to Low-Income Families

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Almost two-thirds of babies in the Golden State are born to low-income families, according to a new report, which makes them less likely to have access to high-quality education and health care. The nonprofit group Children Now just released its 2018 California...
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