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Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters Más de 2 millones de personas de entre 16 y 24 años trabajan en California (aproximadamente la misma población de Houston), lo que representa el 12% de la fuerza laboral. Constituyen una parte crítica de la economía del estado, según un nuevo informe del Centro Laboral de UCLA....
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Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters More than 2 million people ages 16 to 24 are working in California — about the same as the population of Houston — making up 12% of the workforce. They comprise a critical portion of the state’s economy, according to a new report by the UCLA Labor Center....
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Los estudiantes universitarios pagan más de $1.100 al año por libros y útiles, por lo que muchas escuelas están trabajando para tratar de reducir esa carga. Un estudio del US Public Interest Research Group encuentra que el costo de los materiales de los cursos ha aumentado a un ritmo de tres...
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College students pay upwards of $1,100 a year for books and supplies, so many schools are working to try to reduce the burden. A study from U.S. Public Interest Research Group found the cost of course materials has increased at three times the rate of inflation since the 1970s, due mostly to lack...
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Nicole Foy CalMatters As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat. “Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said...
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The pandemic-era exemptions allowing many students access to CalFresh food benefits without having to work 20 hours a week expired in June, leaving many students in the lurch. CalFresh benefits range from $23 to $281 a month for a one-person household, and data showed 127,000 students were enrolled before the pandemic....
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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...
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Health insurance does not help you if you can’t find a primary-care doctor – and that is a problem for 100 million Americans, according to a new report. Researchers from the National Association of Community Health Centers have found that one-quarter of medically disenfranchised people are children. Joe Dunn, senior vice...
Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters Más de 2 millones de personas de entre 16 y 24 años trabajan en California (aproximadamente la misma población de Houston), lo que representa el 12% de la fuerza laboral. Constituyen una parte crítica de la economía del estado, según un nuevo informe del Centro Laboral de UCLA....
Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters More than 2 million people ages 16 to 24 are working in California — about the same as the population of Houston — making up 12% of the workforce. They comprise a critical portion of the state’s economy, according to a new report by the UCLA Labor Center....
Los estudiantes universitarios pagan más de $1.100 al año por libros y útiles, por lo que muchas escuelas están trabajando para tratar de reducir esa carga. Un estudio del US Public Interest Research Group encuentra que el costo de los materiales de los cursos ha aumentado a un ritmo de tres...
College students pay upwards of $1,100 a year for books and supplies, so many schools are working to try to reduce the burden. A study from U.S. Public Interest Research Group found the cost of course materials has increased at three times the rate of inflation since the 1970s, due mostly to lack...
Nicole Foy CalMatters As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat. “Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said...
The pandemic-era exemptions allowing many students access to CalFresh food benefits without having to work 20 hours a week expired in June, leaving many students in the lurch. CalFresh benefits range from $23 to $281 a month for a one-person household, and data showed 127,000 students were enrolled before the pandemic....
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...
Health insurance does not help you if you can’t find a primary-care doctor – and that is a problem for 100 million Americans, according to a new report. Researchers from the National Association of Community Health Centers have found that one-quarter of medically disenfranchised people are children. Joe Dunn, senior vice...
