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Jackie Botts

Author Archives: Jackie Botts

Jackie covers income inequity and economic survival for the The California Divide collaboration. She has reported for the Data and Enterprise desk for Reuters News and for her hometown paper, The Santa Barbara Independent. Her reporting on immigration, the environment, and justice has appeared in Reuters, Pacific Standard, Public Radio International’s “The World,” and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications. A graduate of Stanford University’s master’s program in journalism, she received the James S. Robinson student journalism award for a multimedia series that documented the impacts of wildfires on immigrant communities in Northern California in 2017.
Jackie is a Report for America corps member.

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For Californians with consumers debt, bank and private collectors could garnish their coronavirus relief stimulus checks. Image via iStock

California could protect stimulus checks from debt collectors. Will Newsom act?

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts April 21, 2020April 23, 2020

Californians with consumer debt could see their stimulus checks garnished by collectors. Advocates want the state to act but they’re still waiting for a response.

A pedestrian walks past boarded up windows of a business in Oakland on the the eighth day of the shelter-in-place order on March 24, 2020.One month into the order, California's economy has entered a recession. Photo by Ray Chavez, Bay Area News Group

What comes next for California cities? Deficits, bailouts and long recoveries

Jackie BottsAvatarElizabeth CastilloAna B. IbarraAvatar by Jackie Botts, Ben Christopher, Elizabeth Castillo, Ana B. Ibarra and Matt Levin April 17, 2020June 9, 2020
Sen. Maria Elena Durazo loads bags of meat and produce into peoples' cars at a Los Angeles food bank on April 2, 2020. Photo by Elizabeth Aguilera for CalMatters

Watch: Financial help and safety nets during the pandemic

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts April 14, 2020April 15, 2020
Medical student Shreya Thatai holds up a sign outside of Berkeley Bowl asking for mask donations to help health care workers. California Gov. Gavin Newsom promises to have solved the shortage by cutting a massive deal for new masks. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

The art of the deal: California’s alliance could solve the nation’s mask shortage

Jackie BottsDan Morain by Jackie Botts and Dan Morain April 8, 2020April 9, 2020

‘We live paycheck to paycheck’: Undocumented workers struggle as economy grinds to a halt

Jackie Botts by Jacqueline Garcia and Jackie Botts March 24, 2020April 20, 2020
Elizabeth Hopkins, left, fills Sal Vega’s shopping bag with canned goods at a food distribution site in Martinez, CA. Vega, 76, wears a mask, gloves and sunglasses to protect himself while out of the house. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

More Californians are hungry, seeking help amid coronavirus job losses

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts March 19, 2020March 20, 2020
Shuttered businesses along Telegraph Avenue in Oakland on March 16, 2020. Today, seven counties enacted a shelter in place order until April 7 to curb the spread of novel coronavirus

Out of a job? Can’t pay your bills? These proposals may help keep you afloat amid coronavirus

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts March 18, 2020March 18, 2020

Can’t pay your power bill? Don’t worry, you’re safe for now as California utilities suspend shutoffs

Nigel DuaraJackie Botts by Nigel Duara and Jackie Botts March 13, 2020March 16, 2020
A large sign hangs over the warehouse that says, 'Thank you volunteers' in the volunteer center at the Alameda County Community Food Bank on July 25, 2019. The food bank relies on roughly 100 volunteers every day to package thousands of meals to be distributed. Photo by Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters

Food banks face shortages of volunteers; many Bay Area pantries close as coronavirus spreads

Jackie BottsNigel Duara by Jackie Botts, Nigel Duara and Erica Hellerstein March 13, 2020March 16, 2020
Eduardo Mendoza, a 66-year-old AIDS survivor, sits for a portrait by his apartment window where he can watch the comings and goings of trains and boats in Martinez, California. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Open reporting: How one man found freedom from his struggle to survive in the Bay Area

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts March 2, 2020March 3, 2020

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