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Adam Echelman CalMatters At 47, Ibrahim Mohamed doesn’t fit the typical image of a college intern. When he arrived in the U.S. from Sudan in 2016, he went online to look for a steady job and decided he wanted to be an electrician at a water treatment facility. A...
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Shreya Agrawal CalMatters Decenas de miles de californianos están perdiendo su seguro médico cada mes a medida que el estado reanuda la verificación de la elegibilidad de las personas para Medi-Cal, que suspendió durante la emergencia de salud pública de COVID-19. Se evaluará la elegibilidad de alrededor de 16...
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Shreya Agrawal CalMatters Tens of thousands of Californians are losing health insurance every month as the state resumes checking people’s eligibility for Medi-Cal, which it suspended during the COVID-19 public health emergency. About 16 million people in California will be evaluated for eligibility from June 2023 to May 2024....
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Over the coming year about 2.3 million Californians, a million of them children, are expected to lose Medi-Cal, which is health insurance coverage for low-income families – as the state redetermines all enrollees’ eligibility after the pandemic. In June alone, 225,000 people were disenrolled from the program, including 64,000...
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Maria Luisa Rossel National Wildlife Federation The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, introduced in the Senate by the legislators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), will help protect wildlife for future generations. If approved, this historic legislation will serve to recover plant and animal species at risk, and prevent...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Thousands of adult Californians without a high school diploma want to take college classes. Unfortunately, those classes aren’t free, and the lack of a high school diploma cuts off access to most financial aid. The good news is, there’s a fix. The bad news is most...
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Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters Era el viernes por la mañana cuando el agua fangosa y color marrón comenzó a precipitarse sobre las granjas del Valle de Salinas de Michelle Hackett. A un lado del negocio de cannabis Riverview Farms de su familia, se desbordó un...
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Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters It was late Friday morning when muddy, brown water started rushing onto Michelle Hackett’s Salinas Valley farms. On one side of her family’s Riverview Farms cannabis business, a county-mandated retention pond overflowed. Next door, a farm abandoned by another grower —...
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Lucia Marroquin knows what it’s like to wait out pain in hopes that it will go away on its own. She is suffering from kidney stones and may need surgery. But because she lacks health coverage, her first question when she falls ill is always “how much will that...