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Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters If you’re a California resident, you use tax-funded roads, schools and other services, so you’re on the Silicon Valley financial roller coaster whether you know it or not. The tech industry has contributed an increasing amount to the state budget, and even the way tech companies...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet. Gov. Gavin Newsom last month signed Assembly Bill 873, which requires...
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Los trabajadores latinos forman la columna vertebral de la industria agrícola estadounidense. Sin ellos, no podríamos comer. Sin ellos, nuestros sistemas alimenticios más grandes se derrumbarían. Pero los trabajadores agrícolas ganan “mucho menos que incluso algunos de los trabajadores peor pagados de la fuerza laboral de los Estados Unidos”,...
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Latine workers form the backbone of the American agricultural industry. Without them, we could not eat. Without them, our larger food systems would crumble. But farmworkers earn “far less than even some of the lowest-paid workers in the U.S. labor force,” according to the Economic Policy Institute. And the overwhelming majority of...
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This week is National News Literacy Week, and according to an expert, trust in the media remains low. But there are still plenty of reliable sources, and consumers need to know what to follow and what to avoid. A recent Gallup poll reported than only 30% of Americans have “a great...
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Los recientes comentarios del Dr. Ashish Jha, coordinador de la respuesta al COVID-19 en la Casa Blanca, apuntan a un importante cambio en el enfoque de la administración para luchar contra la pandemia del COVID-19. Descrito por Jha como “comercialización“, el cambio de estrategia presagia graves consecuencias en lo...
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Recent comments by White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha point to a major shift in the administration’s approach to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Described by Jha as “commercialization,” the shift in strategy portends serious consequences when it comes to equitable health access for the nation’s most vulnerable....