Undocumented Seniors Are Vulnerable During The Pandemic. Will California’s Budget Give Them Health Care?
Undocumented Californians and their supporters were hoping 2020 would be the year that state-subsidized health care became available to [...]
Coronavirus death rate among Latinos appears low, but experts say the data are thin
Preliminary data released this week by Los Angeles County appeared to offer a glimmer of hope for the county’s [...]
Medi-Cal To Expand Eligibility To Young Undocumented Adults. But Will They Enroll?
Starting in January, young adults can sign up for California’s Medicaid program regardless of immigration status. But a fundamental [...]
Latinos Increasingly ‘Afraid’ After El Paso, Immigration Raids — And Wary Of Seeking Help
A bulletin board at the La Familia Counseling Center in South Sacramento is crowded with flyers advertising everything from [...]
Progressive Organizations Unite Behind Bold Agenda to Achieve a “California for All”
Sacramento, CA, April 8, 2019 – The Building the California Dream Alliance – a broad coalition of progressive organizations — today [...]
Opinion: California Must Address a Statewide Latino Physician Shortage
Despite California’s leadership in expanding health coverage to a record number of Californians, we have a crisis that hardly [...]
For Latino health, funding the LWCF is critical
The Latino community in California faces numerous public health inequalities including lack of access to healthcare, limited availability of [...]
Last stop: On these 2018 California bills, it’s the governor’s call
Democrats lost their supermajority early in the year when three lawmakers stepped down facing sexual harassment accusations. Then in [...]
131 Groups Fight to Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, Muslim Advocates, Brennan Center for [...]
California lawmakers are trying to get soda and other sugary drinks out of kids’ meals
Would you like water with that? Kids’ meals in California’s restaurants may only be offered with water or milk [...]