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  • Defensores de familias trabajadoras de CA pugnan por conservar cuentas de ahorro del estado

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Quienes apoyan un plan de ahorros para el retiro subvencionado por el estado presionan al Senado de los EEUU para que rechace una iniciativa que busca acabar con dichos programas en todo el pais. Son los defensores de familias tabajadoras que...
  • CA Advocates for Working Families Push to Keep State-Based Savings Accounts

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Advocates for working families are fighting to keep a proposed state-sponsored retirement savings program called Secure Choice, even as some in Congress are trying to undermine this type of plan. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote soon on a bill...
  • Report: Healthy Babies, Toddlers Must be Higher Calif. Priority

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Less than 10 percent of California toddlers and infants who are eligible for subsidized child care actually get it. That’s one statistic in a new report that spells out ways to improve the growth and development of the state’s youngest residents....
  • Nation’s First Latina U.S. Senator Sworn In

    Suzanne Potter Public News Service CARSON CITY, Nev. – The country’s first Latina U.S. Senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, was sworn into office on Tuesday representing the Silver State, a point of pride for Hispanic leaders in Nevada. The Democrat is the first female Hispanic senator ever, and one of...
  • “Top Ten Species” for New Administration to Prioritize

    Report Highlights California’s Joshua Tree, Gray Wolf Suzanne Potter California News Service  SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Conservation advocates have come up with a top 10 list of imperiled species that the advocates say merits the attention of the incoming Trump administration – and two of them are in California. The...
  • Investigadores advierten sobre terribles consecuencias de quitar la ACA

    Suzanne Potter/Alfonso López-Collada Public News Service  CARSON CITY, Nev. — Si el Congreso retira partes de la Ley de Cuidado Asequible (ACA) sin remplazarlas, el número de estadounidenses sin seguro aumentaría a más del doble para 2019 -llegando a casi 59 millones-, de acuerdo a un nuevo reporte del Urban...
  • First Post-Election ‘Fight for $15’ Rally

    Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES – The election that gave Republicans control of the White House and both houses of Congress isn’t stopping the grassroots “Fight for $15” movement, which sponsored what it calls a “National Day of Disruption” on Tuesday, November 29. The group had rallies...
  • Report Recommends Greater Input for Foster Parents

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif – California’s foster-care system looks after 60,000 children a year, and a new study points out ways to make improvements, by giving foster parents more of a voice. Researchers at The Annie E. Casey Foundation suggest that state agencies make their treatment...
  • New Rule Could Boost Renewables on CA Public Lands

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Bureau of Land Management has finalized rules that encourage increased solar and wind energy production on public lands, and it’s making California a priority. The policies create a competitive process similar to the way oil and gas leases are granted....
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