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Sameea Kamal CalMatters California is grappling with a $31.5 billion budget deficit. Gov. Gavin Newsom denied public transit agencies a lifeline in his latest spending plan, and time is running out. But transit officials and their supporters in the Legislature aren’t giving up hope yet that the state will...
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Peter White Ethnic Media Services A North Carolina native, Sailor Jones is a longtime organizer and community advocate who for more than two decades has fought for social justice in his state. As a member of the trans community, that fight has now taken on renewed urgency. “This is...
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Solo el 14% de los 94,000 estudiantes universitarios indocumentados de California reciben algún tipo de ayuda financiera estatal, según un nuevo informe. Los investigadores de la Comisión de Ayuda Estudiantil de California descubrieron que solo la mitad de las personas que son elegibles para recibir ayuda estatal para la educación...
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Just 14% of California’s 94,000 undocumented college students receive some form of state financial aid, according to a new report. Researchers from the California Student Aid Commission found that only half of the people who are eligible for state aid for higher education even apply. Marlene Garcia, the commission’s executive...
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As public health funding winds down, gaps in vaccination rates are increasing. Particularly for booster doses, the gap among racial and ethnic groups is widening significantly. When California recorded the first U.S. case of COVID-19 more than three years ago, the news was met with fear, confusion and public ire. Schools...
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President Joe Biden arrived in the doldrums to his State of the Union message on Tuesday, February 7. A new poll in The Washington Post and the ABC network shows us that 62% of voters believe that Biden has done nothing or almost nothing in the first 2 years...
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Starting in April, an estimated 2-3 million people could be dropped from Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income people. For three years during COVID, terminations were halted, but Congress recently voted to de-link the program from the Public Health Emergency. So California will have 14 months to re-evaluate eligibility for...
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Natalia Angeles always knew she was going to college despite being undocumented, so giving up the chance to attend a four-year university straight out of high school was not easy. But when the acceptance came from the University of California at Riverside, she quickly realized that without being able...
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A pioneering program for college students in California took another step forward last week when Governor Gavin Newsom swore in over 3200 fellows as the latest cohort in the state’s College Corps Fellowship. The #CaliforniansForAll program, launched in response to COVID-19, is the first of its kind in the...
Sameea Kamal CalMatters California is grappling with a $31.5 billion budget deficit. Gov. Gavin Newsom denied public transit agencies a lifeline in his latest spending plan, and time is running out. But transit officials and their supporters in the Legislature aren’t giving up hope yet that the state will...
Peter White Ethnic Media Services A North Carolina native, Sailor Jones is a longtime organizer and community advocate who for more than two decades has fought for social justice in his state. As a member of the trans community, that fight has now taken on renewed urgency. “This is...
Solo el 14% de los 94,000 estudiantes universitarios indocumentados de California reciben algún tipo de ayuda financiera estatal, según un nuevo informe. Los investigadores de la Comisión de Ayuda Estudiantil de California descubrieron que solo la mitad de las personas que son elegibles para recibir ayuda estatal para la educación...
Just 14% of California’s 94,000 undocumented college students receive some form of state financial aid, according to a new report. Researchers from the California Student Aid Commission found that only half of the people who are eligible for state aid for higher education even apply. Marlene Garcia, the commission’s executive...
As public health funding winds down, gaps in vaccination rates are increasing. Particularly for booster doses, the gap among racial and ethnic groups is widening significantly. When California recorded the first U.S. case of COVID-19 more than three years ago, the news was met with fear, confusion and public ire. Schools...
President Joe Biden arrived in the doldrums to his State of the Union message on Tuesday, February 7. A new poll in The Washington Post and the ABC network shows us that 62% of voters believe that Biden has done nothing or almost nothing in the first 2 years...
Starting in April, an estimated 2-3 million people could be dropped from Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income people. For three years during COVID, terminations were halted, but Congress recently voted to de-link the program from the Public Health Emergency. So California will have 14 months to re-evaluate eligibility for...
Natalia Angeles always knew she was going to college despite being undocumented, so giving up the chance to attend a four-year university straight out of high school was not easy. But when the acceptance came from the University of California at Riverside, she quickly realized that without being able...
A pioneering program for college students in California took another step forward last week when Governor Gavin Newsom swore in over 3200 fellows as the latest cohort in the state’s College Corps Fellowship. The #CaliforniansForAll program, launched in response to COVID-19, is the first of its kind in the...
