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Small businesses drive California’s economy, and the data is now in from the first year of a program that offers free business coaching. The SCALE program – which stands for “success, capital, access and leadership for entrepreneurs” – is a statewide initiative created by the California Office of the...
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A guaranteed income pilot program in Oakland improved housing stability and employment among its recipients, according to a new report from the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research. Starting in 2021, 300 low-income families in Oakland received $500 a month in cash for 18 months. Jesus Gerena...
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Cuando Cecilia González les dijo a sus familiares que se había ofrecido voluntariamente a compartir la historia de su vida con hombres en prisión, se sorprendieron. González, de 56 años, había pasado la mayor parte de su vida adulta recuperándose del dolor y el trauma del abuso infantil y...
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When Cecilia Gonzalez told family members she had volunteered to share her life story with men in prison, they were shocked. Gonzalez, 56, had spent most of her adult life recovering from the pain and trauma of childhood abuse and domestic violence. She has a loving family and a stable...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters Un fondo de 5 mil millones de dólares de dinero federal destinado a ayudar a personas al borde de la indigencia a pagar el alquiler se está quedando sin efectivo, y nadie tiene un plan para evitar que los aproximadamente 60,000 inquilinos, más de 15,000 de ellos...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 of them in California — from losing their...
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Los sindicatos que representan a los trabajadores de la comida rápida están pidiendo al nuevo Consejo de Comida Rápida del estado que apoye un aumento de 70 centavos por hora en el salario mínimo en su próxima reunión el 11 de septiembre. El salario mínimo para los trabajadores de...
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Unions representing fast food workers are asking the state’s new Fast Food Council to support a 70-cent-per-hour boost in the minimum wage at its next meeting on Sept. 11. The minimum wage for fast food workers was recently raised to $20 an hour but it works out to just...
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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....
Small businesses drive California’s economy, and the data is now in from the first year of a program that offers free business coaching. The SCALE program – which stands for “success, capital, access and leadership for entrepreneurs” – is a statewide initiative created by the California Office of the...
A guaranteed income pilot program in Oakland improved housing stability and employment among its recipients, according to a new report from the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research. Starting in 2021, 300 low-income families in Oakland received $500 a month in cash for 18 months. Jesus Gerena...
Cuando Cecilia González les dijo a sus familiares que se había ofrecido voluntariamente a compartir la historia de su vida con hombres en prisión, se sorprendieron. González, de 56 años, había pasado la mayor parte de su vida adulta recuperándose del dolor y el trauma del abuso infantil y...
When Cecilia Gonzalez told family members she had volunteered to share her life story with men in prison, they were shocked. Gonzalez, 56, had spent most of her adult life recovering from the pain and trauma of childhood abuse and domestic violence. She has a loving family and a stable...
Ben Christopher CalMatters Un fondo de 5 mil millones de dólares de dinero federal destinado a ayudar a personas al borde de la indigencia a pagar el alquiler se está quedando sin efectivo, y nadie tiene un plan para evitar que los aproximadamente 60,000 inquilinos, más de 15,000 de ellos...
Ben Christopher CalMatters A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 of them in California — from losing their...
Los sindicatos que representan a los trabajadores de la comida rápida están pidiendo al nuevo Consejo de Comida Rápida del estado que apoye un aumento de 70 centavos por hora en el salario mínimo en su próxima reunión el 11 de septiembre. El salario mínimo para los trabajadores de...
Unions representing fast food workers are asking the state’s new Fast Food Council to support a 70-cent-per-hour boost in the minimum wage at its next meeting on Sept. 11. The minimum wage for fast food workers was recently raised to $20 an hour but it works out to just...
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....