"Overall, we found distribution grids in low-income communities are in a wildfire safety deficit," said lead study author Zhecheng Wang, a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Ram Rajagopal, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford who co-authored the study. In add...
California FreshWorks is a mission-driven lending network that supports enterprises across that increase access to healthy food in California’s low-income communities.
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The biggestdrops in hiringhave been concentrated in recreation and travel, largely “personal contact” jobs that employ many low-wage workers. To be sure, COVID-19, likeearlier pandemicsthroughout history, further devastated these poorer communities. ...
More than 2.24 million low-income adults in California cannot always afford to put food on the table and, as a result, almost one out of three of these adults, 658,000, experiences episodes of hunger. This is a sad reality in a state that has the largest agricultural economy in the Uni...
Groundwater level decline causes wells to run dry1, poses threats to water and food security2,3, tends to acutely impact low-income communities of color4, and causes other well-known consequences (e.g., land subsidence5, deterioration of groundwater storage and quality6,7). Although the con...
Some Californians will be eligible to receive $2,000 to buy an e-bike in an effort to get more cars off the road and keep more money in their pocket. It also has great health benefits.
California offers $2,000 incentive for some low-income residents to purchase e-bikesBy Dominic Garcia Updated on: December 13, 2024 / 7:41 PM PST / CBS Sacramento Some Californians will be eligible to receive $2,000 to buy an electric bike in an effort to get more cars off the road...
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act cut in half the percentage of low-income, uninsured Californians under age 65, from 23 percent in 2013 to 11 percent in 2016-17. But federal law bars undocumented residents from federally funded Medicaid health s