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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...
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California’s COVID-19 state of emergency will end Feb. 28, 2023, nearly three years from its initiation, officials from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced on October 17. The announcement came as new variants spur concerns that there will be another deadly winter surge across the country and as test positivity rates plateau...
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La tierra que Jim Scala y su familia han estado cultivando durante tres generaciones está reseca y marrón hasta donde alcanza la vista. El estanque donde solía beber su ganado ahora es un charco, rodeado de barro agrietado. En otros años, el agua bombeada del río Shasta habría inundado...
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The land that Jim Scala and his family have been ranching for three generations is parched and brown as far as he can see. The pond where his cattle used to drink is now a puddle, ringed with cracked mud. In other years, water pumped from the Shasta River...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn, Michaella Huck & Julie Watts CalMatters “A lot of people would tell you to get to college,” said Cal State Northridge senior Christopher Carter, “but the hardest part is staying in college.” Carter speaks from experience: He arrived at Cal State as a business major, and discovered...