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A new system of bundling and reselling small-business loans is funneling millions to companies owned by women, people of color, immigrants and others who are often excluded from the financial system. Community development financial institutions – known as CDFIs – focus on small loans of $5 to $250,000 sometimes...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters Tents, makeshift shacks and broken-down RVs crowded both sidewalks under a U.S. Highway 101 overpass in Hollywood seven months ago. More than two-dozen people lived in the squalid encampment, feet from cars flying past. Neighbors and nearby businesses fumed, saying they and their customers felt unsafe....
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Kevin Johnson CalMatters Con las campañas electorales para 2024 calentándose, la política de inmigración también lo está haciendo, y podemos esperar que el ciclo electoral traiga mucho fuego y azufre. Lamentablemente, como ha sido el caso durante mucho tiempo en la historia de los Estados Unidos, los inmigrantes probablemente...
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Kevin Johnson CalMatters With 2024 campaigns heating up, immigration politics are as well, and we can expect the election cycle to bring much fire and brimstone. Sadly, as has long been the case in U.S. history, immigrants will likely suffer as a result of the political maneuverings. Seeking to establish...
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Medicaid is one of the great pillars of the social safety net in the United States. Created in 1965, Medicaid routinely provides health coverage to more than seventy million low-income or disabled people. During the pandemic that number grew to ninety million. Nearly half of all births are paid...
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On a late August morning, the Echo Park Trash Club approached an underpass below Los Angeles’ 101 Freeway. Months earlier, the city had dismantled a homeless encampment located there during one of its routine sweeps. It was the Trash Club’s first return to the site since its residents had...
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La naturaleza, con toda su majestuosidad, es frágil. También puede ser profundamente curativa. Por eso, durante la pandemia de Covid, millones de personas salieron al aire libre para escapar el confinamiento prolongado y los hábitats locales, que son el hogar de una variedad de fauna, fueron los más afectados....
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That is nowhere truer than in the 125,000 acres and 73 parks that make up the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) which at the height of the pandemic saw record numbers of visitors. “As we bring ourselves to these parks, we need to understand the history and the...
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En el Mes de la Herencia Hispana, que comienza esta semana y dura hasta mediados de octubre, los grupos conservacionistas animan a la gente a celebrar sacando a la familia a disfrutar de nuestras tierras públicas. En el sur de California, por ejemplo, la Fundación Acceso Hispano está patrocinando...
A new system of bundling and reselling small-business loans is funneling millions to companies owned by women, people of color, immigrants and others who are often excluded from the financial system. Community development financial institutions – known as CDFIs – focus on small loans of $5 to $250,000 sometimes...
Marisa Kendall CalMatters Tents, makeshift shacks and broken-down RVs crowded both sidewalks under a U.S. Highway 101 overpass in Hollywood seven months ago. More than two-dozen people lived in the squalid encampment, feet from cars flying past. Neighbors and nearby businesses fumed, saying they and their customers felt unsafe....
Kevin Johnson CalMatters Con las campañas electorales para 2024 calentándose, la política de inmigración también lo está haciendo, y podemos esperar que el ciclo electoral traiga mucho fuego y azufre. Lamentablemente, como ha sido el caso durante mucho tiempo en la historia de los Estados Unidos, los inmigrantes probablemente...
Kevin Johnson CalMatters With 2024 campaigns heating up, immigration politics are as well, and we can expect the election cycle to bring much fire and brimstone. Sadly, as has long been the case in U.S. history, immigrants will likely suffer as a result of the political maneuverings. Seeking to establish...
Medicaid is one of the great pillars of the social safety net in the United States. Created in 1965, Medicaid routinely provides health coverage to more than seventy million low-income or disabled people. During the pandemic that number grew to ninety million. Nearly half of all births are paid...
On a late August morning, the Echo Park Trash Club approached an underpass below Los Angeles’ 101 Freeway. Months earlier, the city had dismantled a homeless encampment located there during one of its routine sweeps. It was the Trash Club’s first return to the site since its residents had...
La naturaleza, con toda su majestuosidad, es frágil. También puede ser profundamente curativa. Por eso, durante la pandemia de Covid, millones de personas salieron al aire libre para escapar el confinamiento prolongado y los hábitats locales, que son el hogar de una variedad de fauna, fueron los más afectados....
That is nowhere truer than in the 125,000 acres and 73 parks that make up the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) which at the height of the pandemic saw record numbers of visitors. “As we bring ourselves to these parks, we need to understand the history and the...
En el Mes de la Herencia Hispana, que comienza esta semana y dura hasta mediados de octubre, los grupos conservacionistas animan a la gente a celebrar sacando a la familia a disfrutar de nuestras tierras públicas. En el sur de California, por ejemplo, la Fundación Acceso Hispano está patrocinando...
