With Smoke Overhead, Farmworkers Hit By COVID-19 Work Through Compounding Crises
Through heavy smoke clouds, farmworkers in the Central Valley have continued to harvest lettuce, grapes, strawberries and other produce. [...]
COVID-19 Death Rates Highest For Latino Californians, Latest Data Show
From early in the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders in California’s communities of color worried they would lose more lives to the [...]
Latinos are more likely to get COVID-19 and diabetes. What does the combination mean for health?
Medical researchers are still studying exactly how the coronavirus affects people with diabetes. One thing, however, is already clear: [...]
‘I’m not crazy’: Why California Latinos carry more worries in pandemic and why many don’t get help
California Latinos have good reason to worry in the coronavirus outbreak. They’re becoming infected at higher rates than other [...]
Coronavirus updates: 366,000 Californians infected, shutdowns ravage local businesses
It was another troubling week in California, as growing infections and hospitalizations prompted state and local officials to announce [...]
Latinos Disproportionately Impacted By COVID-19 In Sacramento, County Data Show
Latinos and Spanish-speakers are disproportionately contracting COVID-19 in Sacramento, according to recent data by the county health department. Since [...]
California Coalition Calls for Moratorium on State Gang Database
EFF has joined a coalition of civil rights, immigration, and criminal justice reform organizations to demand the California Department [...]
California Advocates, Including United Ways of California, Hope to Join Colorado and Western Leaders on Economic Justice for Immigrant Workers
LOS ANGELES, June 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Legislature's modest inclusion of tax filers that use an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) [...]
Supreme Court DACA Ruling Gives Way to Organizing for Path to Citizenship
For thousands of young immigrants across California who have relied on temporary protection from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred [...]
Here’s what you need to know about disaster relief for undocumented immigrants in California
An effort to provide disaster relief assistance for eligible undocumented Californians affected financially by the coronavirus has been deluged [...]