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Although farm and food production workers were considered essential workers during the pandemic, many of California’s food employers endangered those workers, violating Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 guidelines more often than most industries, a new report said. The California Institute for Rural Studies’ report said farm and food production employers routinely failed to provide...
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Yvonne Vigil-Calderon, an osteopathic medicine student at Touro University California, went to the doctor earlier this year with such severe exhaustion that she thought she was anemic. Her lab results came back normal. “‘When was the last time you took a day off?’” her doctor asked. She realized she...
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As the country reels with the highest levels of inflation seen since the 1980s, experts say without adding more workers, wage increases could drive prices – and inflation – even higher in Ohio and across the U.S. While many future jobs will be taken by youths aging into the...
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Paula Cortez Medrano has worked in the agriculture industry since she arrived in the U.S. over 25 years ago. She has labored in the heat of Fresno summers, picking onions, tomatoes, grapes, and garlic and in the freezing temperatures of local produce packing houses, where she would wear two...
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Mientras el estado se prepara para cerrar sus prisiones juveniles, los trabajadores de la División de Justicia Juvenil podrían recibir bonos de hasta $50,000 para permanecer en el trabajo hasta ese entonces, según pudo saber CalMatters. Si se aprueba, el bono parece estar entre los más grandes que ofrece...
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As the state prepares to close its youth prisons, workers for the Division of Juvenile Justice could receive up to $50,000 bonuses to stay on the job until then, CalMatters has learned. If approved, the bonus appears to be among the largest offered by the state to retain a...
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For Tonya Muhammad, who runs Lil Critters Family Daycare in Hawthorne, spring of 2020 was, in a word, “horrible.” The early rush on cleaning supplies meant that she and her husband had to criss-cross Los Angeles to find disinfectant, sourcing bottles of Lysol from a dental supply company and...
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Para Tonya Muhammad, que dirige la guardería familiar Lil Critters en Hawthorne, la primavera de 2020 la puede describir en una palabra: “horrible”. La prisa temprana por encontrar los suministros de limpieza significó que ella y su esposo tuvieron que atravesar Los Ángeles para encontrar desinfectante, obteniendo botellas de...
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LINCOLN, Nebraska – El presidente electo Joe Biden está considerando cancelar el permiso para el proyecto del oleoducto Keystone XL desde el primer día de su mandato, lo que podría ser una buena noticia para las comunidades nativas americanas en Nebraska que viven cerca de campamentos abarrotados de trabajadores...