California’s undocumented immigrants risked themselves working during pandemic. Lawmakers want to pay them unemployment benefits.
Melissa Montalvo
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Thousands of farmworkers will get pay raises thanks to a lawsuit
Guest farmworkers will see pay increases in 2022 thanks to a lawsuit to stop a Trump-era wage freeze. President Trump proposed the freeze in an attempt to help farmers who lost profit and fallowed land during the pandemic shutdown in 2020. But farmworker advocates sued the Department of Agriculture to stop the freeze from taking effect.
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Most Californians say economic inequality is getting worse, new survey shows
Seven in 10 Californians say the gap between rich and poor is getting larger, according to a statewide survey.
Posted inCOVID 2022
California still won’t make COVID-19 workplace outbreaks public
Faced with business opposition, a state lawmaker fails to deliver on a pledge to require companies to report COVID outbreaks publicly. Supporters vow to fight for transparency in the name of public health and workplace safety.
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An entire California town was without running water — in a heat wave
A rural Central Valley community is without running water during a heat wave, prompting authorities to haul in bottles and jugs of water to more than 700 people in Teviston.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Universal basic income for farmworkers? Some leaders are pushing for it
A Fresno-area politician wants California to prioritize struggling San Joaquin Valley farmworkers in a proposed pilot program that would put cash in the hands of some of the state’s impoverished residents.