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The Verify team spoke with experts to answer some of the most pressing questions, relating to the new executive order on payroll taxes.
Five weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered Californians to stay at home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, protesters gathered at the state Capitol to call for easing restrictions and lawmakers complained they haven’t had a voice in managing the crisis.
An increasing number of children are being infected with COVID-19 and more than 200 of them, including 29 patients in California, are suffering from severe inflammatory reactions that can be life threatening, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.
Not everyone can afford to take a sick day – much less spend a week or more in quarantine – and that’s a real problem in a pandemic, for them, their family, and their community, according to Los Angeles City Council member David Ryu. He introduced a possible solution Wednesday, a wage-replacement measure meant to […]
To help slow the spread of COVID-19, California’s stay-at-home order issued on March 19, 2020, effectively suspended youth sports, including school-based, club, and recreational youth sports. Beginning July 30, the California Department of Public Health is allowing youth sports training, conditioning, and physical education under specific circumstances.
Judy Bracken first heard it a few years ago from a hospital social worker: If Bracken wanted her adult son, who has schizoaffective disorder, to receive long-term mental health treatment, she should get him off her private insurance, UnitedHealthcare, and onto the public system for low-income people in Contra Costa County.
The company “disregarded inescapable evidence of rising infection levels among its workers,” the lawsuit says.
A plan proposed Monday by Senate Republicans, the HEALS Act, would lower the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit supplement from $600 per week to $200 per week for the next two months, before capping payments at 70 percent of a worker’s prior income. A new analysis by Century Foundation researchers finds that, if enacted, the […]
