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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the sole Palestinian-American voice in Congress, was officially reprimanded last Tuesday, but many of her colleagues say she will not stop fighting for peace. A 234 to 188 vote of nearly all Republicans and enough Democrats sealed Tlaib’s censure, a punishment proposed by Republican Congressman Rich...
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When President Joe Biden granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to nearly half a million Venezuelans in September, his critics argued that it was an incentive for other groups to seek similar relief. The president did the right thing by granting this immigration relief because, in effect, Venezuelans faced serious...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters A pesar de mudarse a su nuevo alojamiento hace apenas un mes, Darlene Pizarro y su perro, Angel, ya son clientes habituales del parque canino local. El nuevo lugar de Pizarro no es exactamente un vecindario de la ciudad y el lugar donde vive no es...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Despite moving in to her new digs just a month ago, Darlene Pizarro and her white dog, Angel, are already regulars at the local dog run. Pizarro’s new place is not quite a city neighborhood and where she lives isn’t quite a home, but a tiny...
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Felicia Mello CalMatters El descanso en fin de semana. La jornada laboral de ocho horas. La licencia familiar remunerada. Esos frutos de las victorias laborales son parte de la vida cotidiana en California. Ahora, este verano con bastante movimiento laboral en el estado, puede haber ayudado a inspirar otra...
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Felicia Mello CalMatters The weekend. The eight-hour workday. Paid family leave. Those fruits of labor victories are part of everyday life in California. Now the state’s hot labor summer may have helped inspire another precedent-setting measure, if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill on his desk that would allow...
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For millions of children, the start of the summer season is a time for recreation, outdoor activities, visits to the beach and much more. But for millions of them, especially Latino children from low-income families, the summer represents one of the times of greatest nutritional insufficiency because they lose...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters Este mes, a los californianos preocupados por el costo de la vivienda se les ofreció el regalo más raro: un rayo de esperanza. Los nuevos números publicados por la administración de Newsom muestran que California agregó casas a su inventario de viviendas a un ritmo más rápido...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters This month Californians worried about the cost of housing were offered the rarest of gifts: a glimmer of hope. New numbers released by the Newsom administration show that California added homes to its housing stock at a faster clip than any time since the Great Recession —...