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  • Pocos estudiantes universitarios indocumentados de CA reciben ayuda estatal

    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...
  • Few Undocumented CA College Students Receive State Aid

    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...
  • COVID disparities grow as California ends state of emergency

    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 Biden’s challenge to the State of the Union

    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...
  • State Projects Millions Could Lose Medi-Cal as Renewals Start Back Up

    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...
  • For undocumented students, job opportunities are scarce. This state program could help.

    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...
  • California’s College Corps Program a Leg up for Students and the State

    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...
  • California to end the COVID state of emergency

    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...
  • Ganaderos, tribus y funcionarios estatales se enfrentan por el agua del río Shasta

    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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