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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 —...
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José López Zamorano La Red Hispana The US-Mexico border is undoubtedly facing a migration crisis and a humanitarian tragedy. It is the result of a complex set of circumstances: The incapacity of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to solve endemic problems of insecurity and lack of opportunities. The...
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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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Medicaid is one of the great pillars of the social safety net in the United States. Created in 1965, Medicaid routinely provides health coverage to more than seventy million low-income or disabled people. During the pandemic that number grew to ninety million. Nearly half of all births are paid...
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Manuela Tobias CalMatters Los residentes de casas móviles en California enfrentan un riesgo enorme de fallas en los sistemas de servicios públicos, inundaciones e incendios como resultado de una infraestructura que con frecuencia no ha sido actualizada o reparada en décadas. En 1984, California aprobó una ley para ayudar a remediar...
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Manuela Tobias CalMatters Mobile home residents in California face an outsize risk of failing utility systems, flooding and fires as a result of infrastructure that frequently hasn’t been updated or repaired in decades. In 1984, California passed a law to help remedy this: a loan program, paid into by the residents...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
José López Zamorano La Red Hispana The US-Mexico border is undoubtedly facing a migration crisis and a humanitarian tragedy. It is the result of a complex set of circumstances: The incapacity of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to solve endemic problems of insecurity and lack of opportunities. The...
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...
Medicaid is one of the great pillars of the social safety net in the United States. Created in 1965, Medicaid routinely provides health coverage to more than seventy million low-income or disabled people. During the pandemic that number grew to ninety million. Nearly half of all births are paid...
Manuela Tobias CalMatters Los residentes de casas móviles en California enfrentan un riesgo enorme de fallas en los sistemas de servicios públicos, inundaciones e incendios como resultado de una infraestructura que con frecuencia no ha sido actualizada o reparada en décadas. En 1984, California aprobó una ley para ayudar a remediar...
Manuela Tobias CalMatters Mobile home residents in California face an outsize risk of failing utility systems, flooding and fires as a result of infrastructure that frequently hasn’t been updated or repaired in decades. In 1984, California passed a law to help remedy this: a loan program, paid into by the residents...