Jackie Botts

New Trump administration rules would deny green cards to immigrants on public assistance. It's an idea California knows well.

A Trump administration proposal would cut food stamps to 3.1 million Americans—largely working families with high housing, childcare and medical costs. That could hit hard in California, a state where both the cost of living and the minimum wage are on the rise.

California, which has the nation's highest poverty rate, ranks near the bottom for participation in its food stamp program, CalFresh.

Gov. Gavin Newsom more than doubled the size of a four-year-old state program that puts cash back in the wallets of the working poor. Why is California’s Earned Income Tax Credit considered such an effective anti-poverty tool?