Benefits Set to Expire for Unemployed Californians
Beginning tomorrow, more than 200,000 Californians will stop receiving unemployment compensation checks. That sudden shift might put a dent in the state’s economy.
Closure of Migrant Camps Forces Seasonal Workers to Make Tough Choice
The fields around Watsonville produce more than half a billion dollars in berries every year. After the raspberry vines have been cut back for winter and the strawberry fields plowed under, some farmworkers head back to Mexico for a few months. At the state-run Buena Vista Migrant Center, the end of the growing season means it's time for 104 families to move out, including those who don't want to travel south of the border. As Rowan Moore Gerety reports, more and more farmworker families are having second thoughts about the tradition of migrating twice a year.