A state of the art facility in Modesto will now serve the many veterans who live in the San Joaquin Valley.
Month: July 2013
A federal policy that allows undocumented immigrants who entered the country as youth to remain in the U.S. also excludes them from health care under federal reform. But in California, these immigrants might get a break, thanks to a dispute between state officials and the federal government nearly two decades ago.
Nearly one in every four California kids lives in poverty – a familiar but still-stunning statistic in a land as plentiful as ours. You would think this would be the top focus of the state’s policymakers – on the left and the right. Either by increasing public assistance, or increasing economic opportunity, or both, California must do something to lift the next generation out of this condition or risk supporting a permanent underclass for decades to come. That’s why a recent report card on the wellbeing of children from kidscount.org, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is worth reviewing.
Tiffany Kettermann didn’t realize that her husband was violent until they were already married. Within a year she would be 2,000 miles from home and trapped in a relationship with an emotionally volatile and abusive person.
Virtually every student at Central Elementary School in City Heights lives in poverty. But thanks to a small nonprofit, each summer the school’s third graders are treated to two days of camping in San Diego County’s backwoods.
If California is hostile to good jobs – as conventional wisdom often suggests — the rest of the country might want to try some of our brand of antagonism. Over the past year, California businesses have created jobs at a higher rate then the U.S. as a whole. But what kind of jobs? Is California becoming a ghetto of dead-end employment, of fast-food, retail and other low-wage jobs with limited opportunities for upward mobility? Actually, no… Daniel Weintraub’s weekly essay.
“It’s the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.” That line from the movie “Million Dollar Baby” – the last to screen at San Francisco’s Coronet Theater, now home to the city’s Institute on Aging – captures the dream of aging pioneer Dr. Lawrence Feigenbaum, who nearly 40 years ago envisioned comprehensive health services as an alternative to nursing home placement.
When the signature reforms of the Affordable Care Act go into effect on January 1st, millions of California will be eligible for government subsidized health-care benefits. Counties, some of which saw their jail populations and health care costs swell since prison reforms took effect in 2011, want inmates to be among the newly insured.
Head Start, devised by Dr. Jonathan Finlay of Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, treats brain tumors in young patients using no or limited amounts of radiation.
The expansion of Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid program), a signature part of Obama’s landmark health care reform plan, has gone largely unnoticed in a county that already had a health care plan for low-income people.