Struggling Dairy Farmers Ask State to Help
Hundreds of dairy farmers from all over the state turned up in Sacramento on Thursday, calling for the state to raise the price of milk. Thanks to the drought and to competition for corn from ethanol producers, feed costs have gone through the barn roof.
Low-Income Families Brace for End of Health Plan
In January, the state will begin transferring hundreds of thousands of low-income kids from its popular Healthy Families insurance plan to Medi-Cal, which offers medical coverage to the state's poorest residents. Ending Healthy Families was one of Governor Jerry Brown's budget-balancing strategies -- and now families are feeling the weight of that decision.