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Anthony Torres loads a vehicle with food at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank at Franklin D. Roosevelt Park in Los Angeles on March 23, 2021. Photo by Mike Blake, REUTERS

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California’s plan to provide food assistance to undocumented residents leaves some out

by Melissa Montalvo and Jeanne Kuang June 14, 2022June 14, 2022

California will offer food assistance to undocumented people over 55. Advocates want more. They say younger people need help, too.

A farmworker works on farmland irrigated by sprinklers in El Centro on May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan

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Cash for farmworkers? California lawmaker says new $20 million idea will help amid drought

by Melissa Montalvo April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

Farmworker Inocencio Cortez joins the rally in downtown Fresno on Cesar Chavez Day to help urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign the Ag Labor Voting Choice Act, providing more choices in how farm workers can vote in their union elections. March 31, 2022. Photo by John Walker/The Fresno Bee

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California farmworkers march to ask Newsom to sign voting bill

by Melissa Montalvo April 1, 2022April 1, 2022

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California still won’t make COVID-19 workplace outbreaks public

by Melissa Montalvo September 27, 2021September 27, 2021

A fieldworker wearing a hat with the golden eagle, the official bird of Mexico, as he uses it to shield his face from the sun while he picks strawberries on Saturday, April 25, 2020. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian

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Farmworkers say employers, Cal/OSHA don’t enforce COVID-19 safety regulations

by Kate Cimini February 2, 2021February 3, 2021

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Fresno County tracks COVID-19 outbreaks at workplaces. Why keep it secret?

by Manuela Tobias December 11, 2020December 14, 2020

A bus parked in front of El Dorado Motel drops off farmworkers as a van that also transports farmworkers drives right next to it in Salinas on Aug. 1, 2020. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian

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State mandates emergency workplace COVID-19 protections, less crowding for guest farmworkers

by Jackie Botts November 19, 2020September 28, 2021

Social Distancing rules meant to protect against the transmission of COVID-19, in English and Spanish, displayed at the entrance to a commercial construction site in Sunnyvale on May 10, 2020. California does not make workplace COVID-19 case data available to the public. Photo by Andrei Stanescu via iStock

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Oregon posts workplace outbreaks, California has no such plan

by Laurence Du Sault November 11, 2020November 12, 2020

Guadelupe Sanchez, an employee at a McDonald's restaurant in San Leandro, led a caravan of essential workers at the fast food company from two San Jose locations as they chanted, held signs and honked as they circled a Hayward location to demand wage increases and more personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. Photo by Dylan Bouscher, Bay Area News Group

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What Cal/OSHA has — and hasn’t — been doing for workers?

by Jackie Botts and Manuela Tobias October 30, 2020November 5, 2020

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California work safety agency’s response to COVID complaints: letters, not inspections

by Jackie Botts October 9, 2020October 28, 2020