By Minerva Perez
As valley school districts turn to their transportation funding to help balance budgets, they’ve found themselves champions of another form of busing to get to and from school – the public transit systems.
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Securing safe drinking water is difficult for farm workers who live in small settlements in the Central Valley.
John Tracy Clinic brings hope to hearing impaired children – and their parents.
A new program is training doctors, most of whom are from the San Joaquin Valley, who want to treat underserved populations in the area. Currently, the San Joaquin Valley has too few doctors, including both primary care physicians and specialists.
As demand for free clinic services increases in Santa Ana, preventative programs are cut.
The dentist on a van – who is a stand-up comedian in his off hours – helps low-income kids in rural Yuba County keep a happy, healthy smile.
Native plants revive one of Orange County’s few remaining natural habitats – and give Santa Ana residents a new place to appreciate nature.
By Daniel Weintraub
The Supreme Court decision last week upholding President Barack Obama’s health reform law clears the way for a transformation in the way millions of Californians will get their health insurance, and, ultimately, their care.
For the shrinking number of people who still receive insurance coverage as a benefit from their employers – mostly at big companies – the changes will be gradual at first, though still significant. And despite assurances from Obama, it is still not clear that most people will be able to keep the coverage they have today.
But for individuals who do not have insurance because they are unemployed, self-employed or working in places that do not offer health benefits, the change will be dramatic, fast and probably to their liking.
Claudia Lopez tries to comfort her 9-month-old son Brian as the doctor examines the baby to figure out why he’d been vomiting all night. She explains, in Spanish, why she relies on this low-cost clinic: “I need this place because I make so little at work and I don’t have insurance.”
By Marnette Federis
Long known as one of the most violent cities in California, Oakland is taking a novel step to try to reduce crime: empowering children to train one another in violence prevention.