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Gov. Taps Diverse Group for COVID-19 Recovery Task Force
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Gov. Taps Diverse Group for COVID-19 Recovery Task Force

Tanu Henry, California Black MediaApril 23, 2020

The governor said he is charging the diverse group of social, political and economic leaders to analyze every sector of the state economy and put together a road map to economic recovery. Newsom says he expects the task force to come up with “short-term, medium-term and long-term ideas” to put California on track to once again attain the level of economic prosperity the state had reached before the pandemic: 21 consecutive months of job growth; a $20 billion budget surplus in 2019; and 20 billion more stacked away in the state reserves.

A Bill of Rights for Long-Term Care Residents
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A Bill of Rights for Long-Term Care Residents

Peter Schurmann, Ethnic News MediaNovember 24, 2022

Amid acute staffing shortages made worse by Covid advocates for older adults say more needs to be done to protect the rights of residents in California’s long-term care facilities. Do residents of long-term care facilities have rights? The question gained new urgency for elder care advocates in the wake of the Covid pandemic, which led to prolonged quarantines and isolation for residents amidst soaring infection and fatality rates. Today, advocates worry residents’ basic rights — from proper health care to voting and even when and what to eat — are not being met amid acute staffing shortages. “Every individual has

Community and Labor Come Together to Host the People’s Assembly
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Community and Labor Come Together to Host the People’s Assembly

Danny Bakewell, Jr. Executive EditorMay 7, 2020

COVID-19 has brought America face-to-face with its pervasive inequities. The gaping divide in our education system, healthcare, jobs, criminal justice, technology, transportation, and economy, as well as the lack of a social safety net and voter suppression (due to the COVID-19 crisis), all speak to a broken system. But the most significant and most immediate inequity threatening communities of color came to light as data poured in from major cities all over the country, showing how vulnerable the Black and indigenous communities are due to underlying health conditions brought about by systemic racism.