Lea este artículo en español. South San Francisco this month sent out the first $500 monthly checks to around 150 low-income families to spend however they see fit. South San Francisco is the latest Bay Area city to launch a guaranteed income pilot program – in which participants receive monthly cash payments with no strings attached – […]
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President Joe Biden on Monday reassured Americans that the omicron variant “is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic” — raising questions about the strategy Gov. Gavin Newsom will employ to respond to a form of COVID-19 about which much remains unknown. The governor, who returned to California late Sunday night after a […]
EN RESUMEN Miles de espacios para viviendas asequibles para estudiantes están en peligro después de que el sistema de Cal State malinterpretó la letra pequeña de un nuevo programa estatal de viviendas para estudiantes de $2 mil millones según ha descubierto CalMatters. Una vez superada la fecha límite para las solicitudes, la solución sigue sin […]
EN RESUMEN La reacción política a una serie de robos minoristas indica que el crimen podría ser un tema candente en las elecciones de California del próximo año. Read this article in English. Periódicamente, California experimenta un aumento en el crimen, o al menos un aumento en la conciencia pública y la preocupación por el crimen, […]
Thousands of affordable student housing slots are in jeopardy after the Cal State system misread the fine print for a new $2 billion state student housing program, CalMatters has discovered. With the deadline for applications passed, a solution remains unclear.