Good morning, Inequality Insights readers. I’m Wendy Fry.
Final yr, our California Divide reporting crew lined how cities have been responding to migrants arriving unexpectedly. Whereas lots of the 900-plus migrants who arrived in L.A. from Republican states rapidly built-in into the neighborhood, the few dozen who went to Sacramento discovered an under-resourced help system, CalMatters reporters Alejandra Reyes-Velarde and Justo Robles discovered.
Lately, Republican governors have began transporting migrants from their states to cities with Democratic leaders, together with in California. In June 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a price range that put aside $12 million to move unauthorized migrants out of Florida. In April 2022, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed his state to constitution buses to move migrants to Washington, D.C. He later expanded the order to incorporate different places, together with cities in California.
Now it’s as much as Gov. Gavin Newsom to resolve the destiny of a invoice that goals to require advance discover in such conditions. Meeting Invoice 2780by Assemblymember Tina McKinnora Democrat from Inglewood, would require business transportation corporations to offer a 24-hour digital discover to native jurisdictions earlier than dropping off 10 or extra passengers more likely to search emergency shelter. That’s so public and nonprofit help providers can put together to offer help. The invoice would impose a possible $10,000 nice on any business transportation firm that doesn’t comply. It additionally prohibits native governing our bodies from disclosing the drop-off data to federal immigration authorities with no court-ordered subpoena or judicial warrant.
Supporters of the invoice argue migrants are getting used as “political pawns” — dumped at random places, generally in the midst of the night time, to create the looks of chaos. In legislative filings, the American Property Casualty Insurance coverage Affiliation against the invoice with out rationalization.
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- Gig work. 4 years after California voters accepted higher wages and well being advantages for ride-hailing drivers and supply staff, nobody is guaranteeing these advantages are supplied, CalMatters’ Levi Sumagaysay experiences. Staff have filed 54 wage claims with the state associated to Prop. 22 because it went into impact in December 2020. At the very least 32 of them are unresolved, state data obtained by CalMatters present. The state Industrial Relations Division, which handles wage claims, now tells CalMatters it doesn’t have jurisdiction to resolve these associated to Prop. 22.
- College grocery retailer. A free grocery retailer at a San Francisco-area center faculty will present households with entry to contemporary vegetables and fruit, meat and dairy merchandise, shelf-stable meals and drinks, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
- Breaking boundaries. The Public Coverage Institute of California discovered labor pressure participation amongst working-age Californians with a incapacity elevated since 2019, possible reflecting pandemic adjustments, resembling distant work that elevated alternatives or decreased boundaries.
- Sewage woes. California leaders are asking the U.S. State Division to press Mexican officers for solutions on the unprecedented dry climate sewage and sediment flows from Mexico, that are inflicting intense sewage odors in southern San Diego. The Worldwide Boundary and Water Fee reported a rise in sewage flows within the Tijuana River originating from Mexico. Mexico has not recognized the origin.
- Well being care defined. California made almost everybody eligible for well being care protection, report CalMatters’ Shaanth Nanguneri and Arfa Momin on this explainer on the development to increase entry to well being care.
- Silicosis fines. California’s Division of Occupational Security and Well being hit synthetic stone producers in Solar Valley with $18,785 fines, the LAist experiences. The company mentioned the businesses violated guidelines geared toward defending staff from a lethal lung illness known as silicosis.
- Unclaimed school funds. Thousands and thousands of California youngsters are eligible to say their state-funded school or profession financial savings accounts, however only some hundred thousand have completed so, Newsom shared on social media earlier this week. The state launched the California Children Funding and Growth Financial savings Program (CalKIDS) program in 2022 to make it simpler for extra youngsters to save lots of for his or her future training.
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Wendy and the California Divide Staff
