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San Mateo County meal program extended
Great Plates Delivered, a program that distributes healthy meals from local food providers to eligible seniors, has been extended through October 9, 2020. The program is part of California’s emergency response to COVID-19.....Read more here.
Eleventh hour save for California renters facing evictions is not a permanent solution
AB 3088, an emergency bill to stave off evictions for 4.3 million California renters, was passed at the 11th hour on August 31 by the California State Legislature....Read more here.
East Palo Alto 2020 Census response tops 2010 response
At the beginning of September, 63% of East Palo Alto residents completed their 2020 Census questionnaire. This percentage tops the city’s 2010 Census final self-response rate of 62.5%....Read more here.
How we can uphold our democracy this election season
Former Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams described efforts to suppress votes nationwide ahead of the November 3 presidential election....Read more here
Youngest city in San Mateo County hard hit by COVID-19
East Palo Alto is now the most pandemic-affected city in San Mateo County with the highest percentage of confirmed COVID-19 cases in relation to its population size.....Read more here.
A tsunami of evictions could hit the U.S. in the aftermath of COVID-19
A panel of experts, speaking on housing rights, sounded an alarm related to the COVID-19 pandemic. They warned of the inevitability of a new economic crisis that now faces millions of American tenants....Read more here.
San Mateo - California's #1 census success story
San Mateo County has achieved the highest census self-response rate in California by working with local organizations that know their communities intimately and by targeting messages to them......Read more here.
Fear of public charge keeps immigrants from seeking health care during pandemic
The Trump Administration’s re-implementation of the public charge rule has kept immigrants from accessing health care and other needed services during the COVID pandemic....Read more here.
U.S. Supreme Court protects California's Dreamers
On June 18, the United States Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.....Read more here.
Juneteenth celebration includes why it is important to fill out the census
On June 19, 2020 the 26th Annual National Juneteenth Festival will kick off a weeklong event. It is not a tradition during this event to have people from across the United States descend on one location. COVID-19 has created major challenges and severe losses to the economy, to jobs, homes and lives......Read more here.
Change is a movement and a process
One thing is clear this Juneteenth: change cannot wait. Today, not only do we commemorate Black liberation from slavery, we also commemorate victims of police brutality and the lives lost at their hands....Read more by clicking here.
Can we move beyond ‘wash, rinse, repeat’ cycle of protests?
The COVID 19 pandemic, which has dominated the news throughout much of 2020, took a knee this week, as the U.S. turned its collective zeitgeist to the issue of police brutality against African American men ..... Read more by clicking here.
COVID-19 has a destructive impact on women in many ways
Most of us are already familiar with the impact that the coronavirus (COVID-19) has had on countries around the world. We get news daily about how it has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide,.... Read more by clicking here.
Is there more Covid cash coming to help Californians?
Gov. Newsom presented his May Revision budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal year to the California State Legislature last week on May 14....Read more by clicking here.
Fighting against hate crimes targeted at Asian Americans in the aftermath of COVID-19
When it comes to being the victims of hate crimes, few if any ethnic groups are exempt. Nearly 400 participants from across the U.S. took part in an online meeting to address the anti-Asian hate crimes that are increasing throughout the country.....Read more by clicking here.
Help defeat COVID-19
COVID-19 hit the Bay Area on January 31 in Santa Clara County. Nearly three months later, the “novel Coronavirus” that originated in China has caused a statewide shut-down unprecedented in living memory....Read more by clicking here.
Tracking California’s census response rate – who’s ahead and who’s behind?
Less than a month after the first invitations to participate in the 2020 census were mailed out, 44.8% of California’s known households have completed the questionnaire, putting the Golden State just slightly behind the country’s 45.1% rate.....Read more by clicking here.
DACA and TPS recipients qualify for federal coronavirus relief
Undocumented immigrants affected by the coronavirus are not at risk of being arrested by immigration agents when they request medical services, while access to health will not be considered a public charge when applying for a permanent residency or certain non-immigrant visas....Read more by clicking here.
The worst is yet to come, medical exports tell reporters at Ethnic Media Services Briefing
The United States, currently leading the world in the number of people infected with coronavirus, is at the crest of fully experiencing the pandemic, a panel of medical experts and community health advocates told reporters March 27. Read more here.
Pacific Islanders promote their own identity in 2020 census – separate from wider Asian category
Despite mounting worries over the COVID-19 pandemic, more than a dozen Pacific Islander activists and media representatives gathered in San Mateo March 14 to anchor an online conference about the 2020 census and their collective stake in an accurate count.... Click here to read more.
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