New Initiatives Set to Increase Health Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants...
By Fran Kritz President Obama’s executive action on immigration, announced in November, could potentially come with a much sweeter — and healthier — deal for undocumented immigrants in California than...
View ArticleGaping Holes in Safety Net for California’s Uninsured
By Anna Challet The safety net for uninsured Californians is full of holes – and those holes are much bigger for the state’s undocumented people. That’s one of the main findings of a new study by...
View ArticleUndocumented Parents Face Extra Challenges When Caring For a Disabled Child
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett Amid life’s everyday challenges and responsibilities, two worries weigh constantly on Jorge Zaleta’s mind. The first is the health of his intellectually disabled son, Jorge...
View ArticleFQHCs Providing Much-Needed Mental and Dental Care for Medi-Cal Enrolled Kids
By Paulina Rojas SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Weeping as she narrated her story, Lupé (not her real name) an undocumented immigrant living in the Inland Empire, said she began feeling helpless and scared...
View ArticleWill California Expand Medi-Cal to Undocumented Young Adults?
By Hannah Guzik Amidst anxiety about potential federal funding cuts to health programs, California has one bright spot. The state’s new tobacco tax is expected to generate about $1.2 billion next...
View ArticleDeconstructing the Department of Justice’s “Urgent Need” for a Census 2020...
This article is the first of a three part series exploring the impact of the citizenship question the Census Bureau plans to add in 2020. It was posted on the University of Southern California Center...
View ArticleVoodoo Science in the Name of Ideology: Why Administrative Records Won’t...
This article is the second of a three part series exploring the impact of the citizenship question the Census Bureau plans to add in 2020. It was posted on the University of Southern California Center...
View ArticleHow a Census 2020 Citizenship Question Will Distort the Sociopolitical...
This article is the third of a three part series exploring the impact of the citizenship question the Census Bureau plans to add in 2020. It was posted on the University of Southern California Center...
View ArticleDocumenting California drought as an undocumented researcher
By Faith Kearns, University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Evelyn Valdez-Ward is a doctoral student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California,...
View Article2020 Census: The Political Impact on California
By Joseph Hayes An undercount of California’s population could affect its political representation The Constitution mandates a decennial census of all residents in the United States to determine...
View ArticleWildfires Expose Gaps in Disaster Relief for Undocumented Communities
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett Shortly after two fires broke out almost simultaneously in Ventura County last October, residents started calling administrators of a local charitable fund called the 805...
View ArticlePandemic Underscores the Plight of Undocumented Californians
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett As the coronavirus continued to spread across California last week, Lidia Lopez of Oxnard fielded frantic questions from neighbors. Why can’t we find basic supplies like...
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