Due to the continuing government shutdown, SNAP (CalFresh) benefits will be halted for more than 270,000 Sacramento county residents who depend on the monthly aid to buy food. With no timeline for when the shutdown will end, local officials warn of a growing food crisis that could worsen poverty, strain the local economy, and push more residents toward homelessness.
Leonard Dixon has run the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center — one of the largest youth jails in the country — for a decade. Records and interviews suggest he might not live in Chicago and is rarely seen at the facility.
“It felt like all of my skin was burning. It filled my limbs, like, my whole body with little welts,” one mother told The Tribune through an interpreter.
“We know a lot about what to do about domestic violence,” one expert told journalists. “But we’re at a point now where our ability to do something with that information is really diminished.”
Cuts to the food assistance program CalFresh in California could impact more than 735,000 beneficiaries. Latinos make up about 55% of all participants, making the program critical to address food insecurity within the community. These families often face disproportionate challenges in affording food, and program cuts could have a significant negative impact.
Latino families in Riverside County turn to workshops and healing circles to cope with trauma, stress, and stigma from immigration enforcement.
Compared to its population, Gilroy has the highest homelessness rate per capita of any city in the region, but resources are sorely lacking.
The low-cost strategies for street safety Hoboken has used could be a template for Santa Cruz to get closer to its safety goals.
Salinas Valley farmworkers, facing rising nitrate-tainted wells, are pushing for fertilizer limits and suing regulators. Meanwhile, many are reyling on bottled water to avoid the health risks stemming from contaminated wells.
Heavy fertilizer use in the Salinas Valley pollutes water with nitrates. Experts are pushing for limits, but regulation has stalled, leaving 14,000 people exposed to health risks.
