Undocumented Families Are Stepping Back from the Tax System This Year

Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, April 14, 2026

• The Los Angeles Unified School District and three unions reached a tentative agreement averting a strike, allowing nearly 400,000 students to return to school this morning as usual.
• Bay Area Congressman Eric Swalwell says he’s resigning from Congress in the face of sexual assault allegations that led him to end his campaign for California governor. 
• San Francisco Assemblyman Matt Haney was in San Diego Monday, working to build support for his legislation to bring more housing to California’s struggling downtowns. 
• Tax day is tomorrow, and tax preparers in immigrant communities around the state say they’re seeing a steep drop in business.

LAUSD Averts Strike

The Los Angeles Unified School District and three unions reached a tentative agreement averting a strike in the nation’s second largest school district.

Local 99 of Service Employees International Union represents 30,000 teacher aides, gardeners, custodians and more. It was the final union to reach a deal early this morning, allowing nearly 400,000 students to return to school this morning as usual.

The deal includes a significant wage increase, more work hours so employees can qualify for health insurance and an expansion of health care benefits.

Eric Swalwell Is Out of the Governor’s Race and Resigning From Congress. What Happens Now?

California’s primary election is fast approaching, but the governor’s race remains unsettled, even more so after bombshell allegations of sexual assault and harassment were leveled last week against one of the Democratic frontrunners, East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell.

Swalwell dropped out of the race on Sunday and announced, less than 24 hours later, that he will resign from Congress.

Assemblymember Matt Haney Promotes New Bill to Bring Housing to Downtowns

San Francisco Assemblyman Matt Haney was in San Diego Monday, working to build support for his legislation to bring more housing to California’s struggling downtowns. 

Haney says AB 20-74 would speed up construction of more high-density housing in downtown zones and lower barriers for these projects.  

“Our downtowns currently have been built in so many ways around bringing people in for the 9-to-5,” said Haney. “We need to start to think about it as places that people are going to be 24 hours cause they’re going to live here.”

Filing on Shaky Ground: Why Immigrant Tax Filings Are Dropping across California

Across California, tax preparers in immigrant communities are seeing an unprecedented drop in filings, in some places, more than 60 percent. KRCB News Reporter Shandra Back explores why undocumented and mixed status families are stepping back from the tax system this year. We visit a legacy tax prep business in Santa Rosa where longtime clients are walking away, discouraged by shrinking credits and shaken trust in federal agencies. We hear from families who have filed faithfully for decades but now question whether it’s worth it. Then, we zoom out with statewide experts from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the California Immigrant Policy Center to understand the broader economic stakes, from billions in lost revenue to the long-term consequences of eroding trust in filing. Finally, we head to Southern California, where fear of immigration raids is keeping even documented Latino residents from leaving their homes, let alone filing taxes.