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Outreach boosts students’ use of food stamps By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer
In years past, the fight over labor standards signaled early death knells for housing bills. But since the carpenters and a few non-construction labor groups joined hands with developers, this bill plowed through legislative hurdles its predecessors couldn’t. The two labor camps now have until Thursday
The CalFresh program, also known as SNAP or food stamps, is a vital resource for thousands of California college students. However, many students who are eligible to receive the benefits don’t apply for them. One reason for that, experts believe, is that the students aren’t aware that they’re eligible. In two new experiments conducted by researchers at the California Policy Lab and The People Lab, in partnership with the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) and the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC), low-cost outreach to students proved effective in encouraging students to apply for CalFresh, the California Policy Lab announced Thursday in a press release. The research teams tested the effectiveness of outreach to boost student enrollment in CalFresh by sending emails and postcards to roughly 285,000 California college students during the spring and summer of 2021. The authors estimated that more than 7,000 students applied for CalFresh, which gives individuals up to $234 per month to
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New housing construction in the Crocker Village neighborhood in Sacramento on Feb. 10. Miguel Gutierrez Jr./ CalMatters photo
Clock ticking on housing bills By Manuela Tobias CalMatters Days from the end of the legislative session, political observers are once again asking themselves whether a bitter, unresolved battle over labor standards will spell the end of California’s most ambitious proposal to solve its housing affordability crisis.
Assembly Bill 2011, which would unlock commercial real estate for residential use, potentially leading to more than 1 million apartments across the state, has splintered organized labor. While affordable housing developers, the state’s carpenters union and even the largest unions representing
teachers and health care workers support the bill, it faces fiery opposition from the formidable Building and Construction Trades Council and the even bigger California Labor Federation behind them. The council, colloquially known as the Trades, represents 450,000 workers in nearly every other construction industry.
Masks, testing optional at UCD this fall
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By Caleb Hampton
Yolo Food Bank names permanent executive director
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On Friday, UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May announced the campus’ COVID-19 guidance for fall quarter in a message to the UC Davis community. “It’s clear that COVID-19 will be with us for some time,” May said. Apart from getting vaccinated, public health precautions around COVID-19 on campus will be encouraged, but largely optional. Students will be required to comply with the vaccine policy announced last year by the University of California, meaning they must either be up to date on an approved COVID-19 vaccine and any boosters or
WOODLAND — The Yolo Food Bank board of directors announced Tuesday that it had named Karen Baker as the new executive director for the food bank. Baker, who has been serving as the organization’s interim director since July, takes over following a career as a nonprofit and public-sector leader, strategist and community program innovator. “I am very excited to lead Yolo Food Bank and work to effectively address the needs of our community at such a critical
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Apart from getting vaccinated, public health precautions around COVID-19 on campus will be encouraged, but largely optional. submit a religious or medical exemption request. Students who fail to comply with the vaccine policy by Sept. 21 will have a registration hold put on their student accounts, the chancellor said. The policy also
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applies to employees. UC Davis ended mandatory biweekly COVID-19 testing for students and employees in June. It won’t reimpose the requirement
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time,” Baker said. “We live in one of the nation’s most productive agricultural counties, yet food insecurity is very prevalent throughout the region. We will be relentless in our focus to maintain existing partnerships and create new ones to address and meet the needs of the residents in our county who are foodinsecure.” Baker has served in cabinet positions and agency lead posts under California governors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom while leading
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