Federal Update
The Senate is expected to clear the bipartisan gun violence prevention compromise by the end of the week…
California
At least a third of California Community Colleges are still enrolling students in remedial math courses despite state legislation in place to prevent students from being required to take unnecessary non credit coursework, according to a recent report by the California Acceleration Project, a faculty-driven effort to monitor and guide remedial education reform at California Community Colleges…
California’s ‘red flag’ law may have stopped 58 gun massacres…
California already requires gun owners to have a safety certificate, background check, and go through a waiting period before they can take their firearm into their homes…
More than half a dozen affordable housing projects in California are costing more than $1 million per apartment to build, a record-breaking sum that makes it harder to house the growing numbers of low-income Californians who need help paying rent…
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is calling for an investigation into the high price of gas…
Coronavirus
The Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday, 6/18, gave the green light to COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 and younger…
The number of newly reported COVID-19 cases remains elevated across California as health officials continue to wrestle with the pandemic’s latest wave…
A nationwide analysis suggests contracting COVID-19 can nearly triple children’s risk of new mental health problems…
Emerging evidence reveals an uptick in developmental delays and challenging behaviors in children belonging to the so-called ‘COVID generation.’ Born during or shortly before the pandemic, many of these children are talking, walking, and interacting later and less frequently…
A congressional deal for billions of dollars in additional COVID-19 funding appeared all but dead Thursday, 6/16, after Senate Republicans accused the White House of being dishonest about the nation’s pandemic funding needs…
The U.S. under President Trump failed to take basic steps at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent fraud in a federal aid program intended to help small businesses, depleting the funds and making people more vulnerable to identity theft, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), the chairman of a House panel examining the payouts said last week…