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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...
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Universidades de California, especialmente las instituciones de 2 años están trabajando horas extra para atraer a más estudiantes este otoño, a raíz de una fuerte caída en la inscripción durante la pandemia. Según la Camara Nacional de Compensación de Estudiantes, las universidades de California perdieron más de 250 mil estudiantes entre...
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California colleges, especially two-year institutions, are working overtime to attract more students this fall, in the wake of a big drop in enrollment during the pandemic. According to the National Student Clearinghouse, California colleges lost more than 250,000 students from 2019 to 2021. Miguel Cardona, U.S. Secretary of Education, said enrollment...
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More help is in the works to make it easier for adults in rural northern California to go back to college for a certificate or degree. ProjectAttain! in the Sacramento area is one of five educational nonprofits around the country splitting a $750,000 grant from CivicLab. Barbara Halsey, network director...
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...
Universidades de California, especialmente las instituciones de 2 años están trabajando horas extra para atraer a más estudiantes este otoño, a raíz de una fuerte caída en la inscripción durante la pandemia. Según la Camara Nacional de Compensación de Estudiantes, las universidades de California perdieron más de 250 mil estudiantes entre...
California colleges, especially two-year institutions, are working overtime to attract more students this fall, in the wake of a big drop in enrollment during the pandemic. According to the National Student Clearinghouse, California colleges lost more than 250,000 students from 2019 to 2021. Miguel Cardona, U.S. Secretary of Education, said enrollment...
More help is in the works to make it easier for adults in rural northern California to go back to college for a certificate or degree. ProjectAttain! in the Sacramento area is one of five educational nonprofits around the country splitting a $750,000 grant from CivicLab. Barbara Halsey, network director...