Children-and-youth

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L.A. company hired children to cut poultry with sharp knives, regulator says

The Exclusive Poultry Inc. agreed to pay $3.8 million in wages, damages and penalties in part for hiring children for dangerous work. The case is one of hundreds federal labor officials investigated last year.

에 의해 알레한드라 레이예스-벨라르데 • 12월 14, 2023

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California can take kids from abused moms. Why the separation can harm both

California's 'failure to protect' law allows child welfare agencies to take kids from households scarred by domestic violence. Advocates say the separation can worsen a family's trauma.

에 의해 ChrisAnna Mink • 12월 7, 2023

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More working Californians slipped into poverty as pandemic aid expired

California’s poverty rate climbed and its working poor grew this spring, says the Public Policy Institute of California. Safety net programs played a major role in poverty rate changes.

에 의해 알레한드라 레이예스-벨라르데 • 10월 26, 2023

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Families fume over Newsom’s veto of children’s hearing aid bill, call his plan ‘a nightmare’

More than 30 states require insurers to provide some level of coverage for kids’ hearing aids. California isn’t one of them, and Gov. Newsom for the second time has vetoed a bill to close that gap.

에 의해 크리스틴 황 • 10월 13, 2023

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Gavin Newsom makes his decisions on California bills

Gov. Gavin Newsom took a day off from bills signings and vetoes on Monday.  But he unleashed such a big flood of bill decisions over the weekend — about 470 — that legislators and advocacy groups, not to mention reporters, are still catching up. Some key ones signed: Some consequential vetoes: Teacher turnover: From our […]

에 의해 린 라 • 10월 10, 2023

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Newsom’s veto lets California counties continue taking foster kids’ money

States across the United States are banning the practice of billing kids for the cost of their foster care. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar effort in California, citing costs to the state.

에 의해 진 쿠앙 • 10월 9, 2023

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The debate over flavored medicine for California kids

If you’re a parent, you know how difficult it can be to get your kids to take medicine that tastes bad.  Parents can remedy this by requesting their children’s prescription medicine to be flavored at the 3,000 pharmacies in California that are able to do so. But an unintended consequence of a 2019 law may […]

에 의해 린 라 • 8월 2, 2023

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With Trump in mind, California Republicans change delegate rules ahead of 2024 primary

In a presidential year, California’s 2024 primary is in March instead of June, and the state is the biggest prize for the Republican nomination. Over the weekend, the state GOP changed the rules in a way that appears likely to boost former President Donald Trump and to make California the delegate “mother lode of the […]

에 의해 린 라 • 7월 31, 2023

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Californians are smoking less: Why that’s a problem for these early childhood services

A new ban on flavored tobacco products is accelerating a decline in nicotine tax revenue that funds California’s early childhood services. Some programs are already making cuts.

에 의해 아나 B. 이바라 • 7월 18, 2023

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Child brides: A campaign starts to ban underage marriages in California

You have to be 18 to get divorced in California, but there’s no minimum age to get married. Child marriage survivors protested at the state Capitol, but the Legislature likely won’t act until next year.

에 의해 Rya Jetha • 6월 23, 2023