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July 30, 2021

The August Complex Fire burns near Lake Pillsbury in the Mendocino National Forest on Sept. 16, 2020. Photo by Noah Berger, AP Photo
CalMatters en Español
California bajo fuego en 2020: Las cifras de los incendios forestales
En resumen En un año de superlativos, algunas estadísticas se destacan para el año de incendios que ha tenido California en 2020: cuatro millones de acres, 112 millones de toneladas de gases de efecto invernadero, miles de rayos, 11 millones de galones de retardante de fuego. Y 31 vidas perdidas. Read this article in English.  El […]
By • July 30, 2021
A customer inside a loan agency, ACE Cash Express, in Wilmington on July 28, 2021. Photo by Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters
CalMatters en Español
Se redujo la demanda por préstamos de día de pago durante la pandemia, pero los californianos ‘no están fuera de peligro’
En resumen Un nuevo informe encontró una disminución dramática en la dependencia de los californianos por los préstamos de día de pago como resultado directo de la asistencia del gobierno debido a la pandemia, que incluye beneficios de desempleo, alivio de pago de renta, moratorias de desalojo, cheques de estímulo e indulgencia de préstamos. Pero […]
By • July 30, 2021
Gov. Gavin Newsom gives a press conference at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Union City on April 15, 2021. Today, Newsom announced state employees and health care workers must be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing and wear masks. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
Politics
Podcast: How could California’s new vaccine requirements affect Newsom’s recall election?
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week that healthcare and state workers must follow new vaccine requirements to show proof of vaccination or get tested weekly. As wildfires ravage the state and the COVID-19 Delta variant surges across the state, the recall election against Newsom also looms on the horizon. CalMatters’ Emily Hoeven and Ben Christoper […]
By • July 30, 2021
Republican recall candidate support directing education funding directly to families and giving them the choice of where to spend it through enrollment. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
CalMatters en Español
Recordatorio a Newsom: los retadores republicanos ven a los padres como ‘consumidores’
En resumen Los republicanos que compiten para reemplazar al gobernador Gavin Newsom en la elección de destitución cambiarían los cimientos de la educación pública al “empoderar a los padres” con la elección de la escuela. Pero, ¿afectaría eso a las escuelas públicas? Read this article in English.  Cuando la pandemia de COVID-19 cerró las escuelas, las […]
By • July 30, 2021
A pedestrian walks past boarded up windows of a business on 13th Street in Oakland during the first shelter-in-place order on March 24, 2020. Photo by Ray Chavez, Bay Area News Group
WhatMatters
Fourth COVID wave upends California
Good morning, California. It’s Friday, July 30. Rapid policy shifts ​​California’s fourth COVID-19 wave has caused political and public health messaging to clash yet again, leaving many residents in near-perpetual whiplash. Sacramento County on Thursday became the third to mandate face masks indoors regardless of vaccination status, a day after the state recommended the same […]
By • July 30, 2021
An East Palo Alto resident is inoculated against COVID-19 during a community vaccination clinic run by Ravenswood Family Health Network at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park on April 10, 2021. Ravenswood clinics serve low-income populations with more than half of their patients participating in public health coverage programs such as Medi-Cal. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
Coronavirus
COVID vaccinations lag for people on Medi-Cal
In all California counties, Medi-Cal enrollees have been vaccinated at substantially lower rates than the overall population. Experts point to several factors for this economic divide, like the inability of low-income people to take time off work.
By • July 30, 2021

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