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Suzanne Potter California News Service Fifth Third Bank just agreed to pay a $20 million fine to settle charges it forced car buyers to purchase unnecessary insurance and created fake accounts in customers’ names. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said the bank required customers with car loans to buy insurance, even if they...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters Casi 400 sistemas de agua que abastecen a casi un millón de californianos no cumplen con los requisitos estatales para un suministro de agua potable seguro y confiable, y arreglarlos costaría miles de millones de dólares. Más de dos tercios de estos sistemas de agua defectuosos...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters Almost 400 water systems serving nearly a million Californians don’t meet state requirements for safe and reliable drinking water supplies — and fixing them would cost billions of dollars. More than two-thirds of these failing water systems serve communities of color, and more than half are...
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Help is available for people looking to break out of a low-wage, “go-nowhere” job because the nonprofit Merit America is expanding its training courses, thanks to a huge new grant. Crankstart, a family foundation based in San Francisco, is giving more than $15 million over the next few years....
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Más de un año después de que los colegios comunitarios de California recibieran $650 millones en dinero de ayuda estatal por el COVID-19, las escuelas han gastado menos del 20% de ese dinero. Las universidades dicen que necesitan desesperadamente el dinero, pero que se muestran reacias...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters More than a year after California community colleges received $650 million in state COVID-19 relief money, schools have spent less than 20% of it. Colleges say they desperately need the money, but that they are reluctant to spend it because of ongoing uncertainty surrounding the state’s...
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Después de 16 meses en centros de detención de inmigrantes en California y Texas, José Rubén Hernández Gómez regresó a la casa de su familia en Lodi en abril, caminando con un bastón y diciendo que sufre de problemas neurológicos y pesadillas persistentes. El hombre de 33 años, nacido...
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Justo Robles CalMatters After 16 months in immigration detention facilities in California and Texas, Jose Ruben Hernandez Gomez returned to his family home in Lodi in April, walking with a cane and saying he suffers from neurological problems and persistent nightmares. The 33-year old Mexican-born man — who from...
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One year ago, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 731, a law that allows more than a million Californians to clear many old felony convictions from their records. Now, expungement clinics across the state are helping speed that process along. A clinic in San Francisco will help people start the...
Suzanne Potter California News Service Fifth Third Bank just agreed to pay a $20 million fine to settle charges it forced car buyers to purchase unnecessary insurance and created fake accounts in customers’ names. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said the bank required customers with car loans to buy insurance, even if they...
Rachel Becker CalMatters Casi 400 sistemas de agua que abastecen a casi un millón de californianos no cumplen con los requisitos estatales para un suministro de agua potable seguro y confiable, y arreglarlos costaría miles de millones de dólares. Más de dos tercios de estos sistemas de agua defectuosos...
Rachel Becker CalMatters Almost 400 water systems serving nearly a million Californians don’t meet state requirements for safe and reliable drinking water supplies — and fixing them would cost billions of dollars. More than two-thirds of these failing water systems serve communities of color, and more than half are...
Help is available for people looking to break out of a low-wage, “go-nowhere” job because the nonprofit Merit America is expanding its training courses, thanks to a huge new grant. Crankstart, a family foundation based in San Francisco, is giving more than $15 million over the next few years....
Adam Echelman CalMatters Más de un año después de que los colegios comunitarios de California recibieran $650 millones en dinero de ayuda estatal por el COVID-19, las escuelas han gastado menos del 20% de ese dinero. Las universidades dicen que necesitan desesperadamente el dinero, pero que se muestran reacias...
Adam Echelman CalMatters More than a year after California community colleges received $650 million in state COVID-19 relief money, schools have spent less than 20% of it. Colleges say they desperately need the money, but that they are reluctant to spend it because of ongoing uncertainty surrounding the state’s...
Después de 16 meses en centros de detención de inmigrantes en California y Texas, José Rubén Hernández Gómez regresó a la casa de su familia en Lodi en abril, caminando con un bastón y diciendo que sufre de problemas neurológicos y pesadillas persistentes. El hombre de 33 años, nacido...
Justo Robles CalMatters After 16 months in immigration detention facilities in California and Texas, Jose Ruben Hernandez Gomez returned to his family home in Lodi in April, walking with a cane and saying he suffers from neurological problems and persistent nightmares. The 33-year old Mexican-born man — who from...
One year ago, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 731, a law that allows more than a million Californians to clear many old felony convictions from their records. Now, expungement clinics across the state are helping speed that process along. A clinic in San Francisco will help people start the...