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    70,000 Riverside County households received supplemental food benefits for March To assist families and seniors during the COVID-19 crisis, the state will be providing supplemental food benefits to new and existing Cal Fresh recipients on May 10. The extra benefits will be the second of two short-term infusions the state is making to help CalFresh ...
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    COVID-19 has affected everyone’s health in our community, including mental and physical health. Because of this, Assemblymember Eloise Reyes is Co-Hosting a teleconference town hall with Senator Connie Leyva on COVID-19 and Public Health. Joining the Inland Empire Legislators will be special guests San Bernardino County Public Health Director Trudy Raymundo and San Bernardino County ...
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    By Dianne Anderson LaCretia Vallier has some COVID-19 advice for Black people – that even if their hospitals and doctors turn them away from a test, be persistent and keep trying. Their family and other lives are depending on it. If only medical staff had been able to identify COVID-19 symptoms early on, she may ...
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    By Dianne Anderson Everyone is on lockdown in tight living quarters, which makes it hard to see or hear what’s going on with the kids behind closed doors. In recent weeks since the start of the pandemic, reports and calls of abuse or neglect have dropped by 56 percent at Riverside County Department of Public ...
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    More Than 30 Nonprofits Awarded Funding to Provide Relief to Long Beach Residents The City of Long Beach, in partnership with the Long Beach Community Foundation, has raised more than $1,000,000 from members of the community, businesses and family foundations to address coronavirus-related issues in Long Beach. Approximately half of the amount raised has already ...
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    West Coast states agree region will move toward reopening based on health outcomes California Governor Gavin Newsom, Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Washington Governor Jay Inslee have announced an agreement on a shared vision for reopening their economies and controlling COVID-19 into the future. Joint statement from the Governors: COVID-19 has preyed upon our interconnectedness. In ...
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    The state will begin implementing new federal benefit payments of $600 on top of the weekly benefit received by California workers starting this Sunday Californians have filed more claims in the last four weeks than in all of 2019 Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that starting this Sunday, California workers who are receiving unemployment benefits ...
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    by Dianne Anderson Beyond sheltering in place and constant handwashing that has become the new norm, experts and legislators are now scratching the surface of the far-reaching COVID-19. To at least help deal with the economic fallout, some desperately needed money is set to come down to the local level. Last week, Congressman Pete Aguilar ...
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    By Dianne Anderson Go online, get on the phone and make the call, or just put the form in the mail. Either way, anyone who misses the opportunity to fill out the census questionnaire is bound to get the knock at the door. The census is mandated, and it is the law. If nothing else, ...
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    By Dr. Margaret Fortune I have founded seven schools over the past 12 years with one mission in mind — to eradicate the achievement gap that Black students suffer year after year.  Fortune School, a network of K-12, tuition-free, public charter schools is a regional initiative in Sacramento and San Bernardino to prepare kids for ...