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The Family and Medical Leave Act allows workers at companies with 50 or more employees to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs28.pdf\">take up to 12 weeks off without pay\u003c/a> following the birth or adoption of a child without jeopardizing their job. It also applies for care for themselves or a family member with a serious health condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California takes it a step further, however. It's one of just four states that \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalpartnership.org/research-library/work-family/paid-leave/state-paid-family-leave-laws.pdf\">replace a portion of workers' wages\u003c/a> while they're on unpaid family leave. New Jersey, Rhode Island and, beginning in 2018, New York, are the others. Washington state also has passed a law but never funded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though other states have expressed interest in this type of coverage, \"change is glacial, and most people still don't have access\" to paid family leave, said Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women and Families, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, workers at companies of all sizes who take family leave can receive up to 55 percent of their wages, going up to a maximum 70 percent in 2018, for up to six weeks to care for a newborn, newly adopted or foster child or ill family member. The leave is financed by a payroll tax on employees that was added to the state's existing temporary disability program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though workers pay into the fund and are entitled to the state payments during a family leave, people who use the benefit can find themselves out of work at smaller companies. In some cases, workers reluctantly use their more limited paid vacation instead, or they may skip parental leave entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Charles and Angelique Anderson's daughter was born in July, Charles asked his company for a month off to bond with the baby. But the debt collection company he works for turned down his request because, he said, they told him his office of roughly 30 workers isn't bound by the family leave law. So when the baby was born, Anderson, 32, took just a week of vacation before returning to his Sacramento job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was angry,\" said Anderson, who has worked at the firm since 2007. \"Now I have my first baby and they deny me leave because it would have hurt their money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB654\">bill vetoed\u003c/a> by Gov. Jerry Brown on Sept. 30, would have allowed workers at small businesses with between 20 and 49 employees to take up to six weeks off after the birth or adoption of a child without losing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_654_Veto_Message.pdf\">veto message\u003c/a>, Brown said he was worried about the effect on small businesses. The California Chamber of Commerce \u003ca href=\"http://advocacy.calchamber.com/2016/08/23/sb-654-is-attack-on-small-business-calchamber-issues-call-to-action/\">opposed the bill\u003c/a>, calling it a \"job killer\" because it would impose another protected leave of absence on small businesses. The chamber didn't respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small businesses, however, didn't necessarily agree with that assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Small employers need to compete for talent and they want to be able to offer their employees the whole suite of benefits,\" said Mark Herbert, California director of the Small Business Majority, an advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the organization didn't take a position on the bill, Herbert said the financial consequences of such a law might be positive for small businesses. That's because employers don't pay workers' wages while they're on family leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey of 250 California employers in 2010 found that roughly 90 percent \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/asp/evaluation/reports/PaidLeaveDeliverable.pdf\">reported no problems\u003c/a> with morale, productivity, profit or costs because of the family leaves. That's generally consistent with national employer surveys about family leave laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, just 13 percent of private sector workers have access to paid family leave, while 87 percent have access to unpaid family leave, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/benefits/2016/ebbl0059.pdf\">annual national compensation survey\u003c/a> of employee benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen percent of workers who were eligible for leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act in 2012 took it, usually because of their own illness. Of those, about one in five took leave because of pregnancy or a new child, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/asp/evaluation/fmla/fmla-2012-technical-report.pdf\">according to a report\u003c/a> prepared by Abt Associates for the Department of Labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although big-name companies offer generous paid family benefits — sometimes months of leave for both parents — many workers can't take more than a few days off, even without pay. But work-life advocates say they're encouraged by generous corporate perks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a cultural shift,\" said Maya Raghu, director of workplace equality at the National Women's Law Center. \"Some employees don't see this as a benefit but as a necessity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, California advocates aren't giving up on small business protections. \"Instead of being sad, people feel really energized,\" said Jenya Cassidy, director of the California Work and Family Coalition, which advocated for the bill. \"We're still not done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. \u003c/em>\u003cem>Michelle Andrews is on Twitter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mandrews110\">@mandrews110\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 Kaiser Health News. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, workers at companies of all sizes who take family leave can receive up to 55 percent of their wages, going up to a maximum 70 percent in 2018, for up to six weeks to care for a newborn, newly adopted or foster child or ill family member. The leave is financed by a payroll tax on employees that was added to the state's existing temporary disability program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though workers pay into the fund and are entitled to the state payments during a family leave, people who use the benefit can find themselves out of work at smaller companies. In some cases, workers reluctantly use their more limited paid vacation instead, or they may skip parental leave entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Charles and Angelique Anderson's daughter was born in July, Charles asked his company for a month off to bond with the baby. But the debt collection company he works for turned down his request because, he said, they told him his office of roughly 30 workers isn't bound by the family leave law. So when the baby was born, Anderson, 32, took just a week of vacation before returning to his Sacramento job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was angry,\" said Anderson, who has worked at the firm since 2007. \"Now I have my first baby and they deny me leave because it would have hurt their money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB654\">bill vetoed\u003c/a> by Gov. Jerry Brown on Sept. 30, would have allowed workers at small businesses with between 20 and 49 employees to take up to six weeks off after the birth or adoption of a child without losing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_654_Veto_Message.pdf\">veto message\u003c/a>, Brown said he was worried about the effect on small businesses. The California Chamber of Commerce \u003ca href=\"http://advocacy.calchamber.com/2016/08/23/sb-654-is-attack-on-small-business-calchamber-issues-call-to-action/\">opposed the bill\u003c/a>, calling it a \"job killer\" because it would impose another protected leave of absence on small businesses. The chamber didn't respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small businesses, however, didn't necessarily agree with that assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Small employers need to compete for talent and they want to be able to offer their employees the whole suite of benefits,\" said Mark Herbert, California director of the Small Business Majority, an advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the organization didn't take a position on the bill, Herbert said the financial consequences of such a law might be positive for small businesses. 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Of those, about one in five took leave because of pregnancy or a new child, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/asp/evaluation/fmla/fmla-2012-technical-report.pdf\">according to a report\u003c/a> prepared by Abt Associates for the Department of Labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although big-name companies offer generous paid family benefits — sometimes months of leave for both parents — many workers can't take more than a few days off, even without pay. 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"content": "\u003cp>Back in 2002, California passed a law that provides \u003ca href=\"http://www.edd.ca.gov/disability/paid_family_leave.htm\">paid family leave benefits\u003c/a> to eligible workers. In many ways, the law mimicked paid parental leave policies that are in effect in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/10/06/495839588/countries-around-the-world-beat-the-u-s-on-paid-parental-leave\">nearly every other country\u003c/a> in the world. But it was the first of its kind in the U.S., and several other states have \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/10/07/497079311/state-laws-build-momentum-for-first-national-paid-family-leave-program\">since followed suit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how California's law, part of the state's disability insurance program, works: Most workers in the state have small deductions (less than 1 percent of their wages) withheld from each paycheck\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program works sort of like the federal Social Security system, creating a pool of money employees can draw from if and when they need to take time off work to care for a seriously ill relative, or when they have a new baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New moms and dads get six weeks off at a little more than half their weekly pay — 55 percent, with a cap that's indexed to inflation each year.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iris and Eli Fugate, who live in San Diego, say the paid leave gave them precious time to welcome their son, Jack, into the family. Iris took the full six weeks of leave after Jack was born five months ago. Eli took three weeks, and plans to spread the rest out over the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11123753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Iris Fugate says having the time with her husband, Eli, to jointly care for their baby in Jack's first weeks of life helped them learn how to parent together.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11123753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069.jpg 1996w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iris Fugate says having the time with her husband, Eli, to jointly care for their baby in Jack's first weeks of life helped them learn how to parent together. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We both got time to get to know him \u003cem>together\u003c/em>,\" Iris says of that early time with baby Jack. \"Really meaningful — I can't imagine it going any other way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eli agrees. \"It was really important during that first week or two especially,\" he says. Being able to encourage one of his son's first milestones — turning over for the first time — and share the baby's delight was priceless, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the family leave law went into effect more than a decade ago, it's had a positive impact, says sociologist \u003ca href=\"https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Ruth-Milkman\">Ruth Milkman\u003c/a>, a professor at City University of New York, who has studied the law and its history. Business interests initially opposed the law, Milkman says, claiming it would kill jobs and drive small business out of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she and a colleague \u003ca href=\"http://cepr.net/documents/publications/paid-family-leave-1-2011.pdf\">surveyed \u003c/a>large, midsize and small companies in California five years after the state's family leave law went into effect, they discovered those early fears hadn't played out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 90 percent of businesses reported a neutral or even positive impact on their companies after the law. The positive impact had to do with improved employee productivity and morale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That makes sense, Milkman says. \"It's a new benefit and employees are happy about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families too, have reported positive changes, she says. There's been a steady, significant increase in the number of new dads like Eli taking paternity leave to bond with their babies. And, since the law launched, the length of time new mothers like Iris breastfeed has doubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law still requires sacrifice on the part of anyone taking the benefit. It doesn't provide a full paycheck — just 55 percent of an employee's weekly salary. The Fugates say living on a tighter budget each week wasn't easy, but the couple had enough saved to make that work. Eli works as a manager for a large grocery chain, and Iris is a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many families, especially low-wage workers, living on half-pay is much tougher, or even impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11123754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-800x264.jpg\" alt=\"It was financially challenging to live on 55 percent of the family's income in the weeks after Jack was born, Iris Fugate says, but the couple had been able to save enough money to make it work.\" width=\"800\" height=\"264\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11123754\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-800x264.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-400x132.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-1920x634.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-1180x390.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-960x317.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was financially challenging to live on 55 percent of the family's income in the weeks after Jack was born, Iris Fugate says, but the couple had been able to save enough money to make it work. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kitty Jensen and her husband, Lasha Gabrichi, live in North Hollywood, where Jensen works as a personal assistant to a clothing designer. Her boss encouraged her to take maternity leave after her baby was born, Jensen says, and never pressured her to return to work early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, in the end, she returned to work much earlier than she wanted to. At the time of their son Leo's birth, Gabrichi was out of work, which meant the new family was living on half of Jensen's moderate salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was money, says Jensen, but it felt like \"nothing!\" The family still had to pay rent, utilities, telephone, food, health insurance, car insurance, plus all the other new costs of having a baby — from medical bills to diapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're not in the upper middle class, I don't know how people survive on it,\" Jensen says. \"We certainly didn't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen turned to her parents for help. They're not well off, she says, but contributed as much as they could. Jensen and Gabrichi also started selling possessions on Craig's List — \"furniture and art stuff I had, vintage art pieces, chairs,\" Jensen says. \"I just sold anything I possibly could — all year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the financial strain, Jensen says she's grateful for the time she was able take away from her job to spend with the baby. But many workers who are eligible for family leave don't take it because they are even more stretched financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond her survey of how companies were affected by the state law, Milkman also looked at whether Californians were able to take advantage of the family benefit. One-third of those surveyed said they couldn't afford to take the leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11123755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Fugates still make time to stroll their San Diego neighborhood together. In a survey of California companies, more than 90 percent of businesses reported a neutral or positive impact on their companies after the 2002 California family leave law was enacted.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11123755\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fugates still make time to stroll their San Diego neighborhood together. In a survey of California companies, more than 90 percent of businesses reported a neutral or positive impact on their companies after the 2002 California family leave law was enacted. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even worse, says Milkman, more than half of those surveyed weren't even aware the law exists, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And the people who need it most — immigrants, young workers, poor people, low-wage workers — they are the least likely to know about it,\" Milkman found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Service industry workers, like Claudia Chi-Ku, who lives in Los Angeles, are often among those who don't realize they have the option of paid leave. Chi-Ku has worked in numerous restaurants, and is now doing housecleaning at a health care facility. But when she got pregnant with her fourth child several years ago, she was working for a large car wash chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At that time, to be honest with you I had no idea — none whatsoever — about the paid leave law and the benefits it came with,\" Chi-Ku says. Even half a paycheck would have been a godsend, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would have used that money,\" Chi-Ku says. \"I really needed it at that time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today Chi-Ku works with advocacy groups, like the\u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/\"> Restaurant Opportunities Centers United\u003c/a>, to help other low-wage workers understand their rights under the paid leave law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And changes are on the way. Come 2018, leave benefits in California will be boosted to 60 percent of an employee's salary, and 70 percent for low-wage workers like Chi-Ku. State lawmakers have also worked to put more job protections in place for people who opt to take the leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+California%27s+%27Paid+Family+Leave%27+Law+Buys+Time+For+New+Parents&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Back in 2002, California passed a law that provides \u003ca href=\"http://www.edd.ca.gov/disability/paid_family_leave.htm\">paid family leave benefits\u003c/a> to eligible workers. In many ways, the law mimicked paid parental leave policies that are in effect in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/10/06/495839588/countries-around-the-world-beat-the-u-s-on-paid-parental-leave\">nearly every other country\u003c/a> in the world. But it was the first of its kind in the U.S., and several other states have \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/10/07/497079311/state-laws-build-momentum-for-first-national-paid-family-leave-program\">since followed suit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how California's law, part of the state's disability insurance program, works: Most workers in the state have small deductions (less than 1 percent of their wages) withheld from each paycheck\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program works sort of like the federal Social Security system, creating a pool of money employees can draw from if and when they need to take time off work to care for a seriously ill relative, or when they have a new baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New moms and dads get six weeks off at a little more than half their weekly pay — 55 percent, with a cap that's indexed to inflation each year.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iris and Eli Fugate, who live in San Diego, say the paid leave gave them precious time to welcome their son, Jack, into the family. Iris took the full six weeks of leave after Jack was born five months ago. Eli took three weeks, and plans to spread the rest out over the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11123753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Iris Fugate says having the time with her husband, Eli, to jointly care for their baby in Jack's first weeks of life helped them learn how to parent together.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11123753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-2_enl-fc34b2936b23c9298392c3d4ec1ceca4d7203069.jpg 1996w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iris Fugate says having the time with her husband, Eli, to jointly care for their baby in Jack's first weeks of life helped them learn how to parent together. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We both got time to get to know him \u003cem>together\u003c/em>,\" Iris says of that early time with baby Jack. \"Really meaningful — I can't imagine it going any other way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eli agrees. \"It was really important during that first week or two especially,\" he says. Being able to encourage one of his son's first milestones — turning over for the first time — and share the baby's delight was priceless, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the family leave law went into effect more than a decade ago, it's had a positive impact, says sociologist \u003ca href=\"https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Ruth-Milkman\">Ruth Milkman\u003c/a>, a professor at City University of New York, who has studied the law and its history. Business interests initially opposed the law, Milkman says, claiming it would kill jobs and drive small business out of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she and a colleague \u003ca href=\"http://cepr.net/documents/publications/paid-family-leave-1-2011.pdf\">surveyed \u003c/a>large, midsize and small companies in California five years after the state's family leave law went into effect, they discovered those early fears hadn't played out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 90 percent of businesses reported a neutral or even positive impact on their companies after the law. The positive impact had to do with improved employee productivity and morale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That makes sense, Milkman says. \"It's a new benefit and employees are happy about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families too, have reported positive changes, she says. There's been a steady, significant increase in the number of new dads like Eli taking paternity leave to bond with their babies. And, since the law launched, the length of time new mothers like Iris breastfeed has doubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law still requires sacrifice on the part of anyone taking the benefit. It doesn't provide a full paycheck — just 55 percent of an employee's weekly salary. The Fugates say living on a tighter budget each week wasn't easy, but the couple had enough saved to make that work. Eli works as a manager for a large grocery chain, and Iris is a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many families, especially low-wage workers, living on half-pay is much tougher, or even impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11123754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-800x264.jpg\" alt=\"It was financially challenging to live on 55 percent of the family's income in the weeks after Jack was born, Iris Fugate says, but the couple had been able to save enough money to make it work.\" width=\"800\" height=\"264\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11123754\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-800x264.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-400x132.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-1920x634.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-1180x390.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-duo_enl-c7df7d322a9aa9a2ab25f323c6a021ee3565b652-960x317.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was financially challenging to live on 55 percent of the family's income in the weeks after Jack was born, Iris Fugate says, but the couple had been able to save enough money to make it work. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kitty Jensen and her husband, Lasha Gabrichi, live in North Hollywood, where Jensen works as a personal assistant to a clothing designer. Her boss encouraged her to take maternity leave after her baby was born, Jensen says, and never pressured her to return to work early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, in the end, she returned to work much earlier than she wanted to. At the time of their son Leo's birth, Gabrichi was out of work, which meant the new family was living on half of Jensen's moderate salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was money, says Jensen, but it felt like \"nothing!\" The family still had to pay rent, utilities, telephone, food, health insurance, car insurance, plus all the other new costs of having a baby — from medical bills to diapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're not in the upper middle class, I don't know how people survive on it,\" Jensen says. \"We certainly didn't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen turned to her parents for help. They're not well off, she says, but contributed as much as they could. Jensen and Gabrichi also started selling possessions on Craig's List — \"furniture and art stuff I had, vintage art pieces, chairs,\" Jensen says. \"I just sold anything I possibly could — all year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the financial strain, Jensen says she's grateful for the time she was able take away from her job to spend with the baby. But many workers who are eligible for family leave don't take it because they are even more stretched financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond her survey of how companies were affected by the state law, Milkman also looked at whether Californians were able to take advantage of the family benefit. One-third of those surveyed said they couldn't afford to take the leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11123755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Fugates still make time to stroll their San Diego neighborhood together. In a survey of California companies, more than 90 percent of businesses reported a neutral or positive impact on their companies after the 2002 California family leave law was enacted.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11123755\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/cafamily-5_enl-313fdbeb8e5b6f5d2d2ce3558c6cac7b026a0f4a.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fugates still make time to stroll their San Diego neighborhood together. 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"content": "\u003cp>Just before dawn on December 12, 2011, Jason \"Shake\" Anderson was marching with a group of thousands to the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing this to bring attention to what’s going on across the world, where the 1 percent is actually taking money from us every day, making our life hard,\" Anderson said, \"and they’re still collecting dough and they living a great life, and that’s off us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The march was one of \u003ca href=\"https://occupyoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy Oakland\u003c/a>'s largest actions, part of a months-long stretch that featured dozens of massive marches, a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/12/12/occupy-port-protest-live-tweets-from-reporters/\" target=\"_blank\">shutdown of the port\u003c/a> and clashes with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where is Anderson now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286661382\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got back in touch with him, and we met up in Oakland’s Mosswood Park to reminisce, surrounded by sunbathers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Occupy happened and it extended the way I was already living,\" Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time Occupy Oakland began, Anderson was a Navy veteran, DJ'ing at a pirate radio station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t necessarily political, but I also always had a wanting to learn the money system,\" said Anderson. \"My politics came from like, 'What is money really, and why do we need it, and why is it such a problem?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9KEg9cH6F4&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">a video online\u003c/a> of someone at Occupy Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I was like wow! I mean like two years straight I’ve been asking the same money question ... this is great!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11120188 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut.jpg\" alt='Jason \"Shake\" Anderson volunteered for Occupy Oakland’s media committee. He ran for Mayor of Oakland in 2014.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason \"Shake\" Anderson volunteered for Occupy Oakland’s media committee. He ran for mayor of Oakland in 2014. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Anderson’s tent was among more than 100 pitched on a plaza in the heart of downtown Oakland. Every day, the camp featured political workshops, performances, child care, and meals -- all for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anderson volunteered for Occupy Oakland’s media committee, and served as a sort of de facto security guard at the camp, and helped de-escalate conflicts when they arose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every type of anarchist was there with all their philosophies, right. I had to learn all that later. I was just there to help people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There truly were people of all stripes there. Anderson, a local from West Oakland, marched in the same crowds as David Keenan, who grew up as a punk rocker in L.A. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say it was a radicalizing moment for me in terms of seeing how you can have a really incredible movement kind of just squashed very quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite its global notoriety, the main Occupy Oakland camp actually lasted only five weeks before it was evicted by the city and removed by the police. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the camp was broken up, Keenan yearned for a permanent space to provide a home for the collective spirit of Occupy\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \"Not someone’s house that’s just like friends and friends of friends,\" Keenan said. \"But like a truly public space where anyone could participate and we could build solidarity, a space where that could happen all the time that couldn’t be closed down the way that the plaza was closed down.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After more than two years of looking, Keenan and other activists found a defunct Italian social club in North Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11120271\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Inspired by his time with Occupy Oakland, David Keenan helped found Omni Commons.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspired by his time with Occupy Oakland, David Keenan helped found Omni Commons. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 22,000-square-foot building is called the \u003ca href=\"https://omnicommons.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Omni Commons\u003c/a>. There’s a ballroom for concerts, a kitchen for a cafe, with winding hallways and alcoves everywhere. Currently, there are 13 groups using the Omni, ranging from food justice organizations to a small printing press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing something at a scale that most cultural groups or political organizers aren’t really doing,\" says Keenan. \"But coming out of a lot of the energy of Occupy and the sense of empowerment that you got doing things at a big scale, we’re like, 'Let’s try to have space for that to happen and that can’t be taken away.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paying the monthly $15,000 rent has been difficult for these groups. But with the help of an anonymous million-dollar donation, they are very close to buying the building, which Keenan hopes will solidify the Omni as a cultural space for years to come. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We peeked in one small room and found children and their parents, learning to do screen printing. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The screen the kids were working with said “Against Adult Supremacy.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11120333\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Franki Velez (with baby) helps teach screenprinting at the Omni Commons.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franki Velez (with baby) helps teach screen printing at the Omni Commons. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the moms in here was Franki Velez — her son, Ashoka, is 8 months old. When I asked her about Occupy Oakland, she beams.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the best damn thing that ever happened to me. It changed my life,\" said Velez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When \u003ca href=\"http://occupywallst.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy Wall Street\u003c/a> started spreading to other cities in October 2011, Velez says she was living in Tacoma, Washington, getting her master's degree in public administration. She went straight to Occupy Tacoma, and was surrounded by 250 fellow dissatisfied souls. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that was the first time in my life I didn’t feel alone,\" Velez said. \"So I sold everything I owned, jumped in my VW Bug, and I came to Oakland and I never left. I got involved in Occupy Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velez camped with \u003ca href=\"http://takebackthetract.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy the Farm\u003c/a> — a tract of UC Berkeley agricultural land in Albany slated for development. She helped run a free school at Occupy Lakeview, an effort to prevent the closing of an elementary school. She also met her future husband and father of her child through Occupy Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what's she doing now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now I’m a mom, full time,\" Velez said, \"and I’m going to be starting apothecary school because I think we need to like get deeper with our healing, we need to connect with the earth. Food is medicine. We already screamed and yelled about the problems, and now it’s like we’re focused on the solutions,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"Franki Velez outside Omni Commons in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11120513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-800x473.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-400x237.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-960x568.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franki Velez outside Omni Commons in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what are those solutions? Well, there are still well-organized groups across the San Francisco Bay Area that try to stop home foreclosures. The activism of \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> and the economic message of \u003ca href=\"https://berniesanders.com/stream/\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders’ campaign \u003c/a>both trace some of their roots to Occupy Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then there’s Shake Anderson, who we heard from a few minutes ago. In 2014, he decided to \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2014/05/21/mayoral-candidate-jason-shake-anderson/\" target=\"_blank\">run for mayor of Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It only seemed logical for me to run for mayor because I kept doing things in the vein of community work,\" Anderson explained. \"I ran for what Occupy should’ve run for, meaning that look at what we’ve done, this is our representative to speak to the masses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had to ask: Isn’t running for public office inconsistent with the anti-establishment tenor of Occupy? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a power that you’re fighting against. But then you, you don’t create any way to negotiate with that power? That's a futile movement,\" Anderson said. \"That means that you’ll never get past yelling on the streets. And since I’m about progress, I think we should evolve. So what I did was my evolution. It wasn’t Occupy’s evolution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anderson ended up with less than 2 percent of the vote, but he says the simple fact that he ran was a victory.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To mark the five-year anniversary of Occupy Oakland, people will be gathering in the plaza where it all began \u003ca href=\"https://occupyoakland.org/2016/09/beyond-occupy-five-years-hence/\" target=\"_blank\">on Oct\u003c/a>. 8. Franki Velez and David Keenan say they’ll be there. Anderson might show up, too. He said Occupy is part of his DNA now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Occupy happened and it extended the way I was already living,\" Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time Occupy Oakland began, Anderson was a Navy veteran, DJ'ing at a pirate radio station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t necessarily political, but I also always had a wanting to learn the money system,\" said Anderson. \"My politics came from like, 'What is money really, and why do we need it, and why is it such a problem?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9KEg9cH6F4&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">a video online\u003c/a> of someone at Occupy Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I was like wow! I mean like two years straight I’ve been asking the same money question ... this is great!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11120188 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut.jpg\" alt='Jason \"Shake\" Anderson volunteered for Occupy Oakland’s media committee. He ran for Mayor of Oakland in 2014.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21353_Shake-Anderson-in-park-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason \"Shake\" Anderson volunteered for Occupy Oakland’s media committee. He ran for mayor of Oakland in 2014. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Anderson’s tent was among more than 100 pitched on a plaza in the heart of downtown Oakland. Every day, the camp featured political workshops, performances, child care, and meals -- all for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anderson volunteered for Occupy Oakland’s media committee, and served as a sort of de facto security guard at the camp, and helped de-escalate conflicts when they arose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every type of anarchist was there with all their philosophies, right. I had to learn all that later. I was just there to help people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There truly were people of all stripes there. Anderson, a local from West Oakland, marched in the same crowds as David Keenan, who grew up as a punk rocker in L.A. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say it was a radicalizing moment for me in terms of seeing how you can have a really incredible movement kind of just squashed very quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite its global notoriety, the main Occupy Oakland camp actually lasted only five weeks before it was evicted by the city and removed by the police. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the camp was broken up, Keenan yearned for a permanent space to provide a home for the collective spirit of Occupy\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \"Not someone’s house that’s just like friends and friends of friends,\" Keenan said. \"But like a truly public space where anyone could participate and we could build solidarity, a space where that could happen all the time that couldn’t be closed down the way that the plaza was closed down.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After more than two years of looking, Keenan and other activists found a defunct Italian social club in North Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11120271\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Inspired by his time with Occupy Oakland, David Keenan helped found Omni Commons.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21350_David-Keenan-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspired by his time with Occupy Oakland, David Keenan helped found Omni Commons. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 22,000-square-foot building is called the \u003ca href=\"https://omnicommons.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Omni Commons\u003c/a>. There’s a ballroom for concerts, a kitchen for a cafe, with winding hallways and alcoves everywhere. Currently, there are 13 groups using the Omni, ranging from food justice organizations to a small printing press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing something at a scale that most cultural groups or political organizers aren’t really doing,\" says Keenan. \"But coming out of a lot of the energy of Occupy and the sense of empowerment that you got doing things at a big scale, we’re like, 'Let’s try to have space for that to happen and that can’t be taken away.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paying the monthly $15,000 rent has been difficult for these groups. But with the help of an anonymous million-dollar donation, they are very close to buying the building, which Keenan hopes will solidify the Omni as a cultural space for years to come. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We peeked in one small room and found children and their parents, learning to do screen printing. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The screen the kids were working with said “Against Adult Supremacy.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11120333\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Franki Velez (with baby) helps teach screenprinting at the Omni Commons.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-in-screenprint-room-qut-1-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franki Velez (with baby) helps teach screen printing at the Omni Commons. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the moms in here was Franki Velez — her son, Ashoka, is 8 months old. When I asked her about Occupy Oakland, she beams.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the best damn thing that ever happened to me. It changed my life,\" said Velez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When \u003ca href=\"http://occupywallst.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy Wall Street\u003c/a> started spreading to other cities in October 2011, Velez says she was living in Tacoma, Washington, getting her master's degree in public administration. She went straight to Occupy Tacoma, and was surrounded by 250 fellow dissatisfied souls. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that was the first time in my life I didn’t feel alone,\" Velez said. \"So I sold everything I owned, jumped in my VW Bug, and I came to Oakland and I never left. I got involved in Occupy Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velez camped with \u003ca href=\"http://takebackthetract.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy the Farm\u003c/a> — a tract of UC Berkeley agricultural land in Albany slated for development. She helped run a free school at Occupy Lakeview, an effort to prevent the closing of an elementary school. She also met her future husband and father of her child through Occupy Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what's she doing now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now I’m a mom, full time,\" Velez said, \"and I’m going to be starting apothecary school because I think we need to like get deeper with our healing, we need to connect with the earth. Food is medicine. We already screamed and yelled about the problems, and now it’s like we’re focused on the solutions,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"Franki Velez outside Omni Commons in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11120513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-800x473.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-400x237.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Velez-960x568.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franki Velez outside Omni Commons in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what are those solutions? Well, there are still well-organized groups across the San Francisco Bay Area that try to stop home foreclosures. The activism of \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> and the economic message of \u003ca href=\"https://berniesanders.com/stream/\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders’ campaign \u003c/a>both trace some of their roots to Occupy Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then there’s Shake Anderson, who we heard from a few minutes ago. In 2014, he decided to \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2014/05/21/mayoral-candidate-jason-shake-anderson/\" target=\"_blank\">run for mayor of Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It only seemed logical for me to run for mayor because I kept doing things in the vein of community work,\" Anderson explained. \"I ran for what Occupy should’ve run for, meaning that look at what we’ve done, this is our representative to speak to the masses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had to ask: Isn’t running for public office inconsistent with the anti-establishment tenor of Occupy? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a power that you’re fighting against. But then you, you don’t create any way to negotiate with that power? That's a futile movement,\" Anderson said. \"That means that you’ll never get past yelling on the streets. And since I’m about progress, I think we should evolve. So what I did was my evolution. It wasn’t Occupy’s evolution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anderson ended up with less than 2 percent of the vote, but he says the simple fact that he ran was a victory.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Latinos make up the majority of California's young people. So their future helps shape the future of the state. That’s why we dedicated a special edition of our broadcast last week to exploring challenges Latino youth face when it comes to education, jobs and financial security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a collaboration with NPR called \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/a-nation-engaged/\" target=\"_blank\">A Nation Engaged\u003c/a>, about unlocking economic opportunities for more Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met UC students mired in debt, a teen who has to take a long bus ride to get on the internet and a young single mom who’s struggling to get her GED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/02/when-a-jobs-not-enough-to-get-you-off-food-stamps/\" target=\"_blank\">When a Job’s Not Enough to Get You Off Food Stamps\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11120016 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Lupe-800x523.jpg\" alt='“I need to get this diploma,” says Guadalupe Beltran. “I need to get this out of the way, it’s like a big ol’ stone that’s right there. I need to move it.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Lupe-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Lupe-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Lupe.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Lupe-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Lupe-960x628.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young mom Guadalupe Beltran got a job and got off welfare, but five years later she's still not making enough to get by without food stamps. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guadalupe Beltran\u003c/strong> is a young mom who's working full time, but who still relies on food stamps. She’s part of a program in Fresno that’s trying to get her into a higher-paying job. But first, she needs to get her GED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I need to get this diploma,\" says Beltran. “I need to get this out of the way, it’s like a big ole’ stone that’s right there. I need to move it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/03/the-evolution-of-californias-college-promise-as-told-through-4-students/\" target=\"_blank\">The Evolution of California’s ‘College Promise,’ as Told Through 4 Students\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11120073 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-800x525-1-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"A recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz, Guillermo Rogel qualified for the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan — but he’s still $45,000 in debt. \" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-800x525-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-800x525-1-400x263.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz, Guillermo Rogel, qualified for the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan — but he’s still $45,000 in debt. \u003ccite>(John O’Brein/KUOW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guillermo Rogel\u003c/strong> is a 22-year-old from Riverside who reached his dream of graduating from a UC campus. But now he’s saddled with $45,000 in debt. Experts say if current trends in tuition increases persist, the University of California will become the most expensive public higher education system in the country. We hear from four UC alums and students -- from the 1950s to the present -- about the evolving promise of a free college education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely is a scary thought to think about. There’s $45,000 in debt that I have to get over before I can really take on the rest of life,” says Rogel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/01/how-far-would-you-ride-a-bus-to-get-your-homework-done/\" target=\"_blank\">How Far Would You Ride a Bus to Get Your Homework Done?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11120082\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Rosy Mendez (L) rides a slow-moving bus through the Eastern Coachella valley to get to the library to get her homework done.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324-800x552.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324-1180x814.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324-960x662.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosy Mendez (L) rides a slow-moving bus through the Eastern Coachella Valley to get to the library to get her homework done. \u003ccite>(Bryan Mendez/Coachella Unincorporated)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosy Mendez\u003c/strong> has to take a windy, slow-moving bus through the desert to the public library each day to be able to do her homework. The daughter of farmworkers, she has no internet service at home. We teamed up with youth reporters from \u003ca href=\"http://coachellaunincorporated.org/\">Coachella Unincorporated\u003c/a> to explore how transportation challenges can affect opportunities for Latino youth in the Coachella Valley desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Transportation does have a lot to do with the opportunity you’re afforded,” says youth reporter Karla Martinez, who interviewed Rosy Mendez on the bus. “It kind of limits you. Like, can I get to the next stop, can I get to the next goal in my life?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the full show:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286623632\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The day Brian Feeney walked into a Palm Springs dealership to buy a new Nissan Leaf, he was fulfilling the dream of state policy-makers to entice Californians to break off their love affair with gas-guzzling cars. But the amount of meticulous research that went into Feeney’s purchase was identical to the amount of carbon emissions his all-electric Leaf would spew into the atmosphere: zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, the salesman asked, how are you planning to get it home? Feeney blinked. His Pasadena house was more than 100 miles away—beyond the Leaf’s battery range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, his fun new car was delivered to his home hitched to the back of a tow truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story is an apt metaphor for California’s similarly impulsive embrace of zero emission vehicles—and the logistical challenges of figuring out how to get from point of origin to ultimate destination. Like Feeney, the state knew little about the market for electric vehicles before mandating a widespread and expensive transportation reboot designed to dramatically cut tailpipe emissions. And, like Feeney’s foray, the state’s electric car adventure has gotten off to a shaky start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a half-dozen years into Gov. Jerry Brown’s futuristic vision of carbon-free transportation, California is encountering even more potholes along the electric highway — obstacles born from both practicalities and politics. Consumers, put off by high costs and concerned about limited range, just aren’t buying into the state’s ambitious aims. As a market share, hybrid electric and fully electric cars have been stuck at \u003ca href=\"http://drivingzev.com/sales\">only 3 percent\u003c/a> of new cars sold in the state. Undaunted, the state intends that by 2025, just nine years from now, zero-emission cars will make up 15 percent of California’s new car fleet—a five-fold increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more electric cars are sold every day, \u003ca href=\"http://on.nrdc.org/2dhRUBE\">a study\u003c/a> for the Natural Resources Defense Council estimates that the state will meet only half the goal by 2025 unless vital changes are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1054470\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/NewCarSalesInCaliforniaGraphic.png\" alt=\"NewCarSalesInCaliforniaGraphic\" width=\"550\" height=\"1425\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/NewCarSalesInCaliforniaGraphic.png 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/NewCarSalesInCaliforniaGraphic-400x1036.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawmakers Send Mixed Messages\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly how this will happen is anybody’s guess. The state is relying on the requirements it’s placed on carmakers to get us there. The industry’s response: We can make the cars, but we can’t make people buy them. And car buyers? At the moment, most of them prefer bigger, fuel-slurping cars — especially with gasoline relatively cheap — and they’re put off by the larger price tags and smaller driving range of electric cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California has exercised its own policy-making power to help overcome these practical problems: issuing financial incentives for the purchase of low-emission cars, encouraging entrepreneurs and utilities to build out a network of convenient charging stations, and rewarding carmakers for filling the market. But political support from the Legislature has been erratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature took until the last week of its session before finally topping up the funds in the state’s low-emissions vehicle rebate program. It also failed to approve a bill that would have codified the electric vehicle goals as law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The maneuvering revealed a split among the Democrats who dominate the Legislature: environmentalist coastal lawmakers running up against resistance from moderate Democrats representing poorer districts. Many of those lawmakers have received major \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/oil-money-flows-for-black-and-latino-democrats/\">campaign contributions from the oil industry\u003c/a>. The pushback, which framed the debate around environmental justice issues, led lawmakers to agree to specific spending to make zero emission cars and charging stations more accessible for low income communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may not be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our trajectory for 2025 is OK,” said state Air Resources Board commissioner Hector de la Torre. “After 2025 is where we are not doing so great. There’s an order of magnitude to go beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">As a market share, hybrid electric and fully electric cars have been stuck at only 3 percent of new cars sold in the state. Undaunted, the state intends that by 2025, just nine years from now, zero-emission cars will make up 15 percent of California’s new car fleet—a five-fold increase.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Via a 2012 Executive Order, Gov. Brown called for 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles in operation statewide by 2025. That number today: about 220,000. The governor’s order also set a target that by 2050, “virtually all personal transportation in the state will be based on zero-emission vehicles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are way behind, we are really way behind,” said Michael Schneider, Chief Environmental Officer at San Diego Gas & Electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Low-Income Residents Left Behind\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers often like the idea of buying an electric car, at least in theory. But purchasing still-emerging technology comes at a steep price. A Nissan Leaf runs about $30,000, a Chevrolet Volt about $35,000. That makes mid-sized electrics $5,000-$10,000 more expensive than comparable gasoline models. Tesla’s boutique models are in the “if you have to ask…” category, topping out at more than $137,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although seven other states have joined California in establishing programs to juice sales of zero emission cars, California has lagged in expanding ownership much beyond wealthier coastal areas. Research shows that higher-income neighborhoods are buying these cars at ten times the rate of lower-income areas — a gap that’s widening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting zero emission cars into garages in disadvantaged communities is enlightened self-interest for everyone: lower income Californians tend to live in areas with the worst air quality, are more likely to have longer commutes, and do so in older, more polluting cars. “If you are being realistic about meeting these targets, you need to target communities of color,” said Joel Espino, an attorney with the Greenlining Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_713859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-713859\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Mercer and Abdellah Cherkaoui with the electric car charging service, Volta\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Mercer and Abdellah Cherkaoui with the electric car charging service, Volta \u003ccite>(Andrea Kissack/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials are working on it. Need-based programs in parts of Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley provide rebates and low interest loans—as much as $13,500—to allow low-income drivers to buy low-emission vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) is a business-friendly Democrat who proposed a bill that would have expanded the rebate program into his district. The bill stalled, leaving Cooper fed up with the incentive program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not meeting the goals right now of reaching the middle class and poor people,” he said. “People who are wealthy buy electric cars to drive in carpool lane and get to work quicker. Meanwhile, poor people are in their old clunkers. It’s crazy. Areas that really need the cleaner air—the ones that suffer the most—not much is being done. I’m really soured on the whole thing. I like electric vehicles but I am not supportive of welfare to the rich.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sustainability Not Included\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009 California has offered rebates to consumers: $5,000 for hydrogen fuel vehicles, $2,500 for full-battery electric cars, and $1,500 for plug-in hybrids. Added to a federal tax credit of up to $7,500, these incentives have kept the engine of the zero-emission car market ticking over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the federal incentive is set to phase out in 2019 and the state capped income eligibility at $250,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willing buyers are frustrated by the waiting list to receive state reimbursement, via a fund replenished by the Legislature’s 11\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> hour injection of $365 million from the proceeds of California’s cap-and-trade auctions. The changing landscape has led to what manufacturers describe as a “purchasing pause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Hall, who manages the advanced vehicle program at General Motors, said car makers “are no longer talking about incentives because it’s on-again off-again. This is creating confusion in the market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also “range anxiety,” the newfangled term for concern that motorists will be stranded without a charge or made to wait for hours re-energizing their car’s battery. From the teeny Smart Car’s average range of 68 miles to the Leaf’s 107, affordable electric cars are limiting.[contextly_sidebar id=”iK2MkoDLeko8pkkHUfcBJytQu5m9L2am”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to build the rest of the machine,” said John Bozzella, president of Global Automakers, an industry group representing a dozen vehicle manufacturers. “If I am in a community and I don’t see a single charging station, my view will be that these technologies are still exotic. I’ll wait ten years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has only about 10,000 public charging stations—too few to service the anticipated surge of clean car sales, should a million more chargeable cars flood the roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Cool Factor\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public and private institutions are quickly adding stations, in part to comply with the state’s building code that requires new construction to be ‘charge ready.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the optimistic side, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hybridcars.com/california-plug-in-sales-led-us-last-year-with-nearly-five-times-greater-market-share/\">more than half\u003c/a> of the nation’s stock of battery electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen vehicles are sold in California. And more than two dozen different low-emission vehicle models are for sale here, with more on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the bad timing to be goosing along electric cars at a time when gasoline prices have fallen, consumers are showing a stronger appetite for larger cars, and Millennials—a natural constituency for “cool cars”—seem more interested in ride-sharing than car-buying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet more than 400,000 people have put down $1,000 deposits on Tesla’s Model 3, the company’s “affordable” $35,000 sedan, which is promised for delivery by the end of next year, and there is heightened consumer interest in the newly-released Chevy Bolt, an all-electric with a 230-mile range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those 20-somethings who use using ride-hailing services? Researchers say that the more frequently they ride in electric cars, the more likely they are to purchase one—and electrics are becoming more popular among Uber and Lyft drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those Uber drivers is the semi-retired Feeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s on the waiting list for a Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a non-profit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policies and politics. For more stories by Julie Cart go to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/about/staff/julie-cart/\">calmatters.org/about/staff/julie-cart \u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more electric cars are sold every day, \u003ca href=\"http://on.nrdc.org/2dhRUBE\">a study\u003c/a> for the Natural Resources Defense Council estimates that the state will meet only half the goal by 2025 unless vital changes are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1054470\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/NewCarSalesInCaliforniaGraphic.png\" alt=\"NewCarSalesInCaliforniaGraphic\" width=\"550\" height=\"1425\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/NewCarSalesInCaliforniaGraphic.png 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/NewCarSalesInCaliforniaGraphic-400x1036.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawmakers Send Mixed Messages\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly how this will happen is anybody’s guess. The state is relying on the requirements it’s placed on carmakers to get us there. The industry’s response: We can make the cars, but we can’t make people buy them. And car buyers? At the moment, most of them prefer bigger, fuel-slurping cars — especially with gasoline relatively cheap — and they’re put off by the larger price tags and smaller driving range of electric cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California has exercised its own policy-making power to help overcome these practical problems: issuing financial incentives for the purchase of low-emission cars, encouraging entrepreneurs and utilities to build out a network of convenient charging stations, and rewarding carmakers for filling the market. But political support from the Legislature has been erratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature took until the last week of its session before finally topping up the funds in the state’s low-emissions vehicle rebate program. It also failed to approve a bill that would have codified the electric vehicle goals as law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The maneuvering revealed a split among the Democrats who dominate the Legislature: environmentalist coastal lawmakers running up against resistance from moderate Democrats representing poorer districts. Many of those lawmakers have received major \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/oil-money-flows-for-black-and-latino-democrats/\">campaign contributions from the oil industry\u003c/a>. The pushback, which framed the debate around environmental justice issues, led lawmakers to agree to specific spending to make zero emission cars and charging stations more accessible for low income communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may not be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our trajectory for 2025 is OK,” said state Air Resources Board commissioner Hector de la Torre. “After 2025 is where we are not doing so great. There’s an order of magnitude to go beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">As a market share, hybrid electric and fully electric cars have been stuck at only 3 percent of new cars sold in the state. Undaunted, the state intends that by 2025, just nine years from now, zero-emission cars will make up 15 percent of California’s new car fleet—a five-fold increase.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Via a 2012 Executive Order, Gov. Brown called for 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles in operation statewide by 2025. That number today: about 220,000. The governor’s order also set a target that by 2050, “virtually all personal transportation in the state will be based on zero-emission vehicles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are way behind, we are really way behind,” said Michael Schneider, Chief Environmental Officer at San Diego Gas & Electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Low-Income Residents Left Behind\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers often like the idea of buying an electric car, at least in theory. But purchasing still-emerging technology comes at a steep price. A Nissan Leaf runs about $30,000, a Chevrolet Volt about $35,000. That makes mid-sized electrics $5,000-$10,000 more expensive than comparable gasoline models. Tesla’s boutique models are in the “if you have to ask…” category, topping out at more than $137,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although seven other states have joined California in establishing programs to juice sales of zero emission cars, California has lagged in expanding ownership much beyond wealthier coastal areas. Research shows that higher-income neighborhoods are buying these cars at ten times the rate of lower-income areas — a gap that’s widening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting zero emission cars into garages in disadvantaged communities is enlightened self-interest for everyone: lower income Californians tend to live in areas with the worst air quality, are more likely to have longer commutes, and do so in older, more polluting cars. “If you are being realistic about meeting these targets, you need to target communities of color,” said Joel Espino, an attorney with the Greenlining Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_713859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-713859\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Mercer and Abdellah Cherkaoui with the electric car charging service, Volta\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/05/IMG_0118.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Mercer and Abdellah Cherkaoui with the electric car charging service, Volta \u003ccite>(Andrea Kissack/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials are working on it. Need-based programs in parts of Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley provide rebates and low interest loans—as much as $13,500—to allow low-income drivers to buy low-emission vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) is a business-friendly Democrat who proposed a bill that would have expanded the rebate program into his district. The bill stalled, leaving Cooper fed up with the incentive program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not meeting the goals right now of reaching the middle class and poor people,” he said. “People who are wealthy buy electric cars to drive in carpool lane and get to work quicker. Meanwhile, poor people are in their old clunkers. It’s crazy. Areas that really need the cleaner air—the ones that suffer the most—not much is being done. I’m really soured on the whole thing. I like electric vehicles but I am not supportive of welfare to the rich.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sustainability Not Included\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009 California has offered rebates to consumers: $5,000 for hydrogen fuel vehicles, $2,500 for full-battery electric cars, and $1,500 for plug-in hybrids. Added to a federal tax credit of up to $7,500, these incentives have kept the engine of the zero-emission car market ticking over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the federal incentive is set to phase out in 2019 and the state capped income eligibility at $250,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willing buyers are frustrated by the waiting list to receive state reimbursement, via a fund replenished by the Legislature’s 11\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> hour injection of $365 million from the proceeds of California’s cap-and-trade auctions. The changing landscape has led to what manufacturers describe as a “purchasing pause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Hall, who manages the advanced vehicle program at General Motors, said car makers “are no longer talking about incentives because it’s on-again off-again. This is creating confusion in the market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also “range anxiety,” the newfangled term for concern that motorists will be stranded without a charge or made to wait for hours re-energizing their car’s battery. From the teeny Smart Car’s average range of 68 miles to the Leaf’s 107, affordable electric cars are limiting.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to build the rest of the machine,” said John Bozzella, president of Global Automakers, an industry group representing a dozen vehicle manufacturers. “If I am in a community and I don’t see a single charging station, my view will be that these technologies are still exotic. I’ll wait ten years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has only about 10,000 public charging stations—too few to service the anticipated surge of clean car sales, should a million more chargeable cars flood the roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Cool Factor\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public and private institutions are quickly adding stations, in part to comply with the state’s building code that requires new construction to be ‘charge ready.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the optimistic side, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hybridcars.com/california-plug-in-sales-led-us-last-year-with-nearly-five-times-greater-market-share/\">more than half\u003c/a> of the nation’s stock of battery electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen vehicles are sold in California. 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"content": "\u003cp>Former employees of Wells Fargo tell NPR that a toxic high-pressure sales culture at the bank drove some workers to deceive customers and open unauthorized accounts — even in the bank's own headquarters building in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo is embroiled in a scandal for taking advantage of customers by opening as many as 2 million accounts without their consent. The bank fired 5,300 mostly lower-level workers over the wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wells Fargo says those workers represent a tiny fraction of employees. The bank basically says they were bad apples who have been fired and who are not representative of the broader culture and practices at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/496508361/496508362\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare look inside the bank, former workers tell NPR that wrongdoing was widespread, even at the bank branch in the very building where the CEO and senior management team worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo's embattled CEO, John Stumpf, has been spending long hours defending himself in congressional hearings trying to explain the scandal engulfing his bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wrongful sales practice behavior,\" Stumpf told the Senate banking committee, \"goes against everything regarding our core principles, our ethics and our culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stumpf says the bank never directed nor wanted employees to provide products and services to customers that they did not want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11115950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11115950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on September 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on Sept. 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But former Wells Fargo employees have been watching that testimony — and the ones we spoke to say, in no uncertain terms, they aren't buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bulls***,\" says one former employee who we'll call Worker #1. She doesn't want to use her name for fear that talking to NPR will prevent her from getting a job at another bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Stumpf is not describing the Wells Fargo she worked at for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the whole foundation of Wells Fargo is cross-sell, cross-sell, cross sell,\" she says, referring to the bank's sales approach of offering customers with, for example, a checking account many other types of products, too — credit cards, home loans, lines of credit, etc. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that in principle. But Worker #1 says that in practice Wells Fargo pushed it beyond reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody needs a ridiculous amount of products,\" she says. And the sales culture was so intense she says that some workers even in the headquarters and other San Francisco branches resorted to deceptive practices to make their sales goals. \"That completely contradicts what he's saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"zyRzkgDgRLS2aSRqhctLYYnVWVBHRgRv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This employee is upset about what the bank did and how she was treated. But it didn't start out that way. Standing on the street last week looking up at the corporate headquarters building, she remembers back in 2007, showing up for her first day of work at the branch here. She says she was excited and a little overdressed. She was wearing stiletto heels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I probably had about a pound of hairspray in my hair,\" she says. \"I felt proud, and my parents were proud of me for getting a job at headquarters. I was very hopeful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 hadn't even finished college yet, so this seemed like a big break. But right away, she said, working as a \"personal banker\" in the branch here was not what she expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the number of products she was expected to sell — checking and savings accounts, credit cards — seemed really high: at least eight products a day. Sometimes it was even more. During a sales push called \"Jump into January\" former employees say they were expected to sell 20 products a day. That just seemed impossible to Worker #1, and she says the pressure on her and her co-workers to sell was disturbingly intense. \"We were all miserable, and it was just soul-crushing to walk in every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik, who also worked at the headquarters branch and wants to use only his first name, describes the sales pressure this way: \"It was every day, man. It was literally every day. It was a grind-house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11116005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11116005 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo on 1 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo at 1 Montgomery St. in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread. \u003ccite>(Ariel Zambelich/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erik says mornings started with a huddle, where managers pressed workers to meet their \"solutions goals.\" Each credit card or home equity loan or other product was called a solution. And all day long workers were told to sell solutions, sell solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was multiple occasions where I saw my co-workers were cracking under the pressure,\" Erik says. \"Tears, crying, constantly getting pulled into the backroom having one-on-ones for coaching sessions.\" Erik says. \"You know, there was a lot of coaching happening,\" and he winks. Why the wink? Erik is a big strong-looking guy. He played sports all through college. He says this wasn't really \"coaching.\" Managers called it that, but it was just leaning on employees to sell more solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says if you didn't meet your sales goals, that's when employees would have to have these so-called coaching sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.'\u003ccite>Wells Fargo employee #1\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 remembers two managers would approach her desk, reprimand her and march her past her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like being called into the principal's office,\" she says. \"Sit down at the large conference table, no windows in this room, they shut the door, lock the door.\" Then, she says, managers would give her a \"formal warning\" and tell her to sign it. And she says they'd tell her, \"If you don't meet your solutions, you're not a team player. If you're bringing down the team, then you will be fired and it will be on your permanent record.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was in her early 20s, like many of the lower-level sales people in the office. She says she was afraid to lose her job, especially because this started back when the economy was still in bad shape. \"You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 says after one of these coaching sessions, she threw up in the wastebasket under her desk. Erik compared the job to being in an abusive relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former branch manager we spoke with in the downtown area said he didn't think many managers would be so specific as to outright threaten people with their jobs. Another former worker said his managers would try to be nice about the warnings. But both said that basic message, that your job was on the line, would be conveyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales culture at Wells Fargo helped the bank's bottom line. Wells Fargo expanded the number of products it sold to millions of customers, and from 2006 to 2015 the bank's stock rose 67 percent. It has since fallen, after news of the banking scandal broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo in San Francisco between the years 2004 and 2011. And they all said a pressure-cooker sales environment at the bank pushed some of their co-workers to deceive customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"TlYSlCWls5roH3fmSMng65sTqmkhZKIA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says no managers directly told him to do anything deceptive with customers. He says they'd ask him: \"Where are you at?' What you got going? How are you gonna get there?\" And then repeat, \"How are you gonna get there?\" And Erik says as long as you hit your numbers, nobody asked any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat, who also just wants to use his first name, remembers one co-worker issuing lines of credit for customers who never applied for them. \"There was this banker who — he had this unbelievable loan volume and I was thinking, wow, is he that good of a sales person?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pat says he figured out what was happening after customers started showing up at the branch to complain. They had applied for a home equity loan. That was OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But then they also have a personal line of credit for like $20,000 that they didn't ask for. So then I realized how he was doing all his loans, because he was basically tagging on other loan products in the same application so they wouldn't really notice when they signed the documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators say deceptive practices like this at Wells Fargo were illegal, though in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/08/493130449/wells-fargo-to-pay-around-190-million-over-fake-accounts-that-sparked-bonuses\">$185 million settlement last month\u003c/a> the bank did not admit wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo between 2004 and 2011. They said deceptive practices were widespread. Accounts were being opened without customers' knowledge. And they said managers knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo says this wasn't the culture of the company. But these workers were not in some backwater branch. They were in the branch on the first floor of the headquarters building, where the CEO himself and the senior management team worked just upstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We contacted Wells Fargo to ask about all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo issued the following statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Although the vast majority of our team members do the right thing, every day, on behalf of our customers, these allegations and accusations are very serious. And if any of these things transpired, it's distressing and it's not who Wells Fargo is. Our Board announced last week that it will lead an internal investigation into retail banking sales practices and related matters, and we have agreed to other independent reviews as part of our agreements with the City of Los Angeles, the CFPB and the OCC. Our leadership accepts full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail banking business, and fully committed to doing everything possible to fix this issue, strengthen our culture, and take the necessary actions to restore our customers' trust. This includes our decision to end product sales goals for all of our retail bankers, starting this month.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the bank's decision to end product sales goals was an acknowledgement that the sales culture had gotten out of control at Wells Fargo, Oscar Suris, executive vice president for corporate communications, said, \"We felt definitively removing product sales goals would remove a risk that we can't tolerate and remove an area of concern for the public that we feel needs to be removed so we want to take that off the table entirely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as what happened to Erik: The big, athletic former Wells Fargo banker said after working for the bank for a little more than a year, he was having physical reactions to the amount of stress he was under, \"upset stomach, nerves, eye-twitching.\" So his quit his job. \"It just got to a point where it was like, I just can't handle this, man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 says eventually she pushed back and refused to meet the sales goals because, she told her managers, there was no ethical way to do it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo's embattled CEO, John Stumpf, has been spending long hours defending himself in congressional hearings trying to explain the scandal engulfing his bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wrongful sales practice behavior,\" Stumpf told the Senate banking committee, \"goes against everything regarding our core principles, our ethics and our culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stumpf says the bank never directed nor wanted employees to provide products and services to customers that they did not want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11115950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11115950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on September 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on Sept. 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But former Wells Fargo employees have been watching that testimony — and the ones we spoke to say, in no uncertain terms, they aren't buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bulls***,\" says one former employee who we'll call Worker #1. She doesn't want to use her name for fear that talking to NPR will prevent her from getting a job at another bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Stumpf is not describing the Wells Fargo she worked at for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the whole foundation of Wells Fargo is cross-sell, cross-sell, cross sell,\" she says, referring to the bank's sales approach of offering customers with, for example, a checking account many other types of products, too — credit cards, home loans, lines of credit, etc. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that in principle. But Worker #1 says that in practice Wells Fargo pushed it beyond reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody needs a ridiculous amount of products,\" she says. And the sales culture was so intense she says that some workers even in the headquarters and other San Francisco branches resorted to deceptive practices to make their sales goals. \"That completely contradicts what he's saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This employee is upset about what the bank did and how she was treated. But it didn't start out that way. Standing on the street last week looking up at the corporate headquarters building, she remembers back in 2007, showing up for her first day of work at the branch here. She says she was excited and a little overdressed. She was wearing stiletto heels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I probably had about a pound of hairspray in my hair,\" she says. \"I felt proud, and my parents were proud of me for getting a job at headquarters. I was very hopeful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 hadn't even finished college yet, so this seemed like a big break. But right away, she said, working as a \"personal banker\" in the branch here was not what she expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the number of products she was expected to sell — checking and savings accounts, credit cards — seemed really high: at least eight products a day. Sometimes it was even more. During a sales push called \"Jump into January\" former employees say they were expected to sell 20 products a day. That just seemed impossible to Worker #1, and she says the pressure on her and her co-workers to sell was disturbingly intense. \"We were all miserable, and it was just soul-crushing to walk in every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik, who also worked at the headquarters branch and wants to use only his first name, describes the sales pressure this way: \"It was every day, man. It was literally every day. It was a grind-house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11116005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11116005 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo on 1 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo at 1 Montgomery St. in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread. \u003ccite>(Ariel Zambelich/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erik says mornings started with a huddle, where managers pressed workers to meet their \"solutions goals.\" Each credit card or home equity loan or other product was called a solution. And all day long workers were told to sell solutions, sell solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was multiple occasions where I saw my co-workers were cracking under the pressure,\" Erik says. \"Tears, crying, constantly getting pulled into the backroom having one-on-ones for coaching sessions.\" Erik says. \"You know, there was a lot of coaching happening,\" and he winks. Why the wink? Erik is a big strong-looking guy. He played sports all through college. He says this wasn't really \"coaching.\" Managers called it that, but it was just leaning on employees to sell more solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says if you didn't meet your sales goals, that's when employees would have to have these so-called coaching sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.'\u003ccite>Wells Fargo employee #1\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 remembers two managers would approach her desk, reprimand her and march her past her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like being called into the principal's office,\" she says. \"Sit down at the large conference table, no windows in this room, they shut the door, lock the door.\" Then, she says, managers would give her a \"formal warning\" and tell her to sign it. And she says they'd tell her, \"If you don't meet your solutions, you're not a team player. If you're bringing down the team, then you will be fired and it will be on your permanent record.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was in her early 20s, like many of the lower-level sales people in the office. She says she was afraid to lose her job, especially because this started back when the economy was still in bad shape. \"You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 says after one of these coaching sessions, she threw up in the wastebasket under her desk. Erik compared the job to being in an abusive relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former branch manager we spoke with in the downtown area said he didn't think many managers would be so specific as to outright threaten people with their jobs. Another former worker said his managers would try to be nice about the warnings. But both said that basic message, that your job was on the line, would be conveyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales culture at Wells Fargo helped the bank's bottom line. Wells Fargo expanded the number of products it sold to millions of customers, and from 2006 to 2015 the bank's stock rose 67 percent. It has since fallen, after news of the banking scandal broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo in San Francisco between the years 2004 and 2011. And they all said a pressure-cooker sales environment at the bank pushed some of their co-workers to deceive customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says no managers directly told him to do anything deceptive with customers. He says they'd ask him: \"Where are you at?' What you got going? How are you gonna get there?\" And then repeat, \"How are you gonna get there?\" And Erik says as long as you hit your numbers, nobody asked any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat, who also just wants to use his first name, remembers one co-worker issuing lines of credit for customers who never applied for them. \"There was this banker who — he had this unbelievable loan volume and I was thinking, wow, is he that good of a sales person?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pat says he figured out what was happening after customers started showing up at the branch to complain. They had applied for a home equity loan. That was OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But then they also have a personal line of credit for like $20,000 that they didn't ask for. So then I realized how he was doing all his loans, because he was basically tagging on other loan products in the same application so they wouldn't really notice when they signed the documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators say deceptive practices like this at Wells Fargo were illegal, though in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/08/493130449/wells-fargo-to-pay-around-190-million-over-fake-accounts-that-sparked-bonuses\">$185 million settlement last month\u003c/a> the bank did not admit wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo between 2004 and 2011. They said deceptive practices were widespread. Accounts were being opened without customers' knowledge. And they said managers knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo says this wasn't the culture of the company. But these workers were not in some backwater branch. They were in the branch on the first floor of the headquarters building, where the CEO himself and the senior management team worked just upstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We contacted Wells Fargo to ask about all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo issued the following statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Although the vast majority of our team members do the right thing, every day, on behalf of our customers, these allegations and accusations are very serious. And if any of these things transpired, it's distressing and it's not who Wells Fargo is. Our Board announced last week that it will lead an internal investigation into retail banking sales practices and related matters, and we have agreed to other independent reviews as part of our agreements with the City of Los Angeles, the CFPB and the OCC. Our leadership accepts full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail banking business, and fully committed to doing everything possible to fix this issue, strengthen our culture, and take the necessary actions to restore our customers' trust. This includes our decision to end product sales goals for all of our retail bankers, starting this month.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the bank's decision to end product sales goals was an acknowledgement that the sales culture had gotten out of control at Wells Fargo, Oscar Suris, executive vice president for corporate communications, said, \"We felt definitively removing product sales goals would remove a risk that we can't tolerate and remove an area of concern for the public that we feel needs to be removed so we want to take that off the table entirely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as what happened to Erik: The big, athletic former Wells Fargo banker said after working for the bank for a little more than a year, he was having physical reactions to the amount of stress he was under, \"upset stomach, nerves, eye-twitching.\" So his quit his job. \"It just got to a point where it was like, I just can't handle this, man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 says eventually she pushed back and refused to meet the sales goals because, she told her managers, there was no ethical way to do it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Does higher education in California still unlock economic opportunities for young people? I explored that question by looking at the cost of a college degree through the lives of four students at very different points in California's history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 1950s -- The early years\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Student: Darline Miller, UC Berkeley \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11114859\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11114859\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/DarlineMiller2-800x923.jpg\" alt=\"Darline Miller attended UC Berkeley during the 1950s when student fees were at an all-time low. “The atmosphere was electric,” she recalls. “There was nothing arduous about the college application process. There was no competition… you could just get in.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"923\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/DarlineMiller2-800x923.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/DarlineMiller2-400x461.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/DarlineMiller2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/DarlineMiller2-1180x1361.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/DarlineMiller2-960x1108.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darline Miller attended UC Berkeley during the 1950s when student fees were at an all-time low. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Darline Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Darline Miller attended \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeley.edu/\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> after high school during the 1950s, when student fees were at an all-time low. Students paid an $84 “incidental fee” each year. Tuition for nonresidents was $300 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this time, the undergraduate population was mostly white. Many students were also World War II veterans going to college on the\u003ca href=\"http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/history.asp\"> GI Bill\u003c/a>, a law that offered financial aid and a range of other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The atmosphere was electric,” Miller, now 87, recalls. “There was nothing arduous about the college application process. There was no competition … you could just get in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming from Olympia, Washington, Miller remembers hopping on the local city bus to simply observe all the interesting people and places on Berkeley streets. She rented an apartment six blocks from campus for $35 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller attended UC Berkeley for two years but she left school to start a family, like many women during this era. She later returned to college, got her degree, and became an educator.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 1960s -- California’s bold experiment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Student: John Tintocalis, California State University, Los Angeles\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11114954\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11114954\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/JohnT800-800x1194.jpg\" alt=\"John Tintocalis was part of a wave of young baby boomers living in other states who heard about California's college promise of the '60s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/JohnT800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/JohnT800-400x597.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Tintocalis was part of a wave of young baby boomers living in other states who heard about California's college promise of the '60s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ana Tintocalis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Tintocalis was born and raised in Concord, New Hampshire, but moved to California during the 1960s to take advantage of what he called a “golden opportunity” in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this decade, California embarked on a bold new experiment under \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucop.edu/acadinit/mastplan/MasterPlan1960.pdf\">the Master Plan for Higher Education\u003c/a>, a groundbreaking law that established a three-tiered higher education system consisting of \u003ca href=\"http://universityofcalifornia.edu/\">UC\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/\">CSU\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"http://www.cccco.edu/\"> community colleges\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The belief was that all young people -- regardless of their academic level or family income -- should have a chance to get a college degree at little or no cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tintocalis was part of a wave of young baby boomers living in other states who heard about this college promise and settled in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there was more diversity on CSU campuses, most of the student population continued to be white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tintocalis attended \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstatela.edu/\">CSU Los Angeles, \u003c/a>which -- like most CSU campuses at the time -- required residents to pay roughly $300-$500 in tuition. The system remains fairly affordable relative to comparable institutions in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tintocalis graduated with little debt and a degree in education. He worked as a public school teacher for more than 30 years in Palmdale, a desert community in northeast L.A. County. He passed away in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was very proud of what he accomplished,” says Rosa Tintocalis, John’s wife. “He would say, ‘Quality education is not just for private schools. You can have a tremendous education in state-run schools.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2010-2016 -- Drowning in debt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Student: Guillermo Rogel, UC Berkeley\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11114966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11114966 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"A recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz, Guermillo Rogel qualified for the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan -- but he's still $45,000 in debt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz, Guillermo Rogel qualified for the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan -- but he's still $45,000 in debt. \u003ccite>(John O’Brein/KUOW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guillermo Rogel, 22, is from Riverside and graduated from \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsc.edu/\">UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a> in June 2016. He represents the new face of higher education in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino students now make up more than 20 percent of the undergraduate population at UC -- the biggest demographic shift the system has experienced. More than 72 percent of these students are the first in their families to go to college and come from low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2010, however, UC tuition and fees experienced a dramatic and relentless upward climb, more than tripling, reaching over $12,000 per year at UC and over $6,000 per year at CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For low-income students, UC created the \u003ca href=\"http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/glossary/blue-and-gold/\">Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan\u003c/a>, which covers tuition as long as their families make less than $80,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogel qualified for this financial aid program, but he's still $45,000 in debt. Rogel says expensive student housing and everyday costs like food and school supplies forced him to rack up the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m always hoping that Congress is going to do something at the federal level that would abolish all of student debt,” Rogel says. “It’s definitely scary to think about. There’s $45,000 in debt that I have to get over before I can really take on the rest of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogel now works as a student organizer for Washington state’s university system.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2016 and beyond -- Free tuition for all?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Student: Melissa Salcedo, UC Irvine\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11114781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11114781\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Salcedo will attend UC Irvine this fall as a freshman. She’s the first in her family to attend UC. Experts say if current trends in tuition increases persist, UC will become the most expensive public higher education system in the country.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo-1180x796.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo-960x648.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Salcedo will attend UC Irvine this fall as a freshman. She’s the first in her family to attend UC. Experts say if current trends in tuition increases persist, UC will become the most expensive public higher education system in the country. \u003ccite>(Sarah Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Melissa Salcedo, 18, will attend \u003ca href=\"https://uci.edu/\">UC Irvine\u003c/a> this fall as a college freshman. The San Diego native comes from a large Mexican-American family, with four brothers and one sister. Salcedo is the youngest and the first in her family to attend UC. She plans to major in creative writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salcedo, however, is attending UC at a time when the system continues to be overwhelmed -- changing demographics, soaring housing prices, more student demand and less state support for public universities are to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a special budget agreement between Gov. Jerry Brown and UC, tuition has remained stable over the past several years, with average tuition and fees costing $13,000 a year for undergraduates. In exchange for no tuition increases, the state is giving UC more state funding as long as the system enrolls more California residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MqR9s5Zs7TrMorOT96gWVtHKwJ70iGj5\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salcedo is also a recipient of UC’s Blue and Gold Opportunity financial aid program. But her mother, Becky Salcedo, says the family is still struggling to pay escalating student fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Melissa knows we would do whatever we can to help her go through because this is what she wants,” Becky Salcedo says. “So yes, dollar signs are going through your head. You’re thinking about what else is coming our way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to institute a \"debt free college education\" have become the focal point for many lawmakers, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. 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She later returned to college, got her degree, and became an educator.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 1960s -- California’s bold experiment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Student: John Tintocalis, California State University, Los Angeles\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11114954\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11114954\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/JohnT800-800x1194.jpg\" alt=\"John Tintocalis was part of a wave of young baby boomers living in other states who heard about California's college promise of the '60s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/JohnT800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/JohnT800-400x597.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Tintocalis was part of a wave of young baby boomers living in other states who heard about California's college promise of the '60s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ana Tintocalis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Tintocalis was born and raised in Concord, New Hampshire, but moved to California during the 1960s to take advantage of what he called a “golden opportunity” in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this decade, California embarked on a bold new experiment under \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucop.edu/acadinit/mastplan/MasterPlan1960.pdf\">the Master Plan for Higher Education\u003c/a>, a groundbreaking law that established a three-tiered higher education system consisting of \u003ca href=\"http://universityofcalifornia.edu/\">UC\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/\">CSU\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"http://www.cccco.edu/\"> community colleges\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The belief was that all young people -- regardless of their academic level or family income -- should have a chance to get a college degree at little or no cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tintocalis was part of a wave of young baby boomers living in other states who heard about this college promise and settled in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there was more diversity on CSU campuses, most of the student population continued to be white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tintocalis attended \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstatela.edu/\">CSU Los Angeles, \u003c/a>which -- like most CSU campuses at the time -- required residents to pay roughly $300-$500 in tuition. The system remains fairly affordable relative to comparable institutions in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tintocalis graduated with little debt and a degree in education. He worked as a public school teacher for more than 30 years in Palmdale, a desert community in northeast L.A. County. He passed away in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was very proud of what he accomplished,” says Rosa Tintocalis, John’s wife. “He would say, ‘Quality education is not just for private schools. You can have a tremendous education in state-run schools.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2010-2016 -- Drowning in debt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Student: Guillermo Rogel, UC Berkeley\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11114966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11114966 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"A recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz, Guermillo Rogel qualified for the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan -- but he's still $45,000 in debt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Guillermo-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz, Guillermo Rogel qualified for the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan -- but he's still $45,000 in debt. \u003ccite>(John O’Brein/KUOW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guillermo Rogel, 22, is from Riverside and graduated from \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsc.edu/\">UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a> in June 2016. He represents the new face of higher education in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino students now make up more than 20 percent of the undergraduate population at UC -- the biggest demographic shift the system has experienced. More than 72 percent of these students are the first in their families to go to college and come from low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2010, however, UC tuition and fees experienced a dramatic and relentless upward climb, more than tripling, reaching over $12,000 per year at UC and over $6,000 per year at CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For low-income students, UC created the \u003ca href=\"http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/glossary/blue-and-gold/\">Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan\u003c/a>, which covers tuition as long as their families make less than $80,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogel qualified for this financial aid program, but he's still $45,000 in debt. Rogel says expensive student housing and everyday costs like food and school supplies forced him to rack up the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m always hoping that Congress is going to do something at the federal level that would abolish all of student debt,” Rogel says. “It’s definitely scary to think about. There’s $45,000 in debt that I have to get over before I can really take on the rest of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogel now works as a student organizer for Washington state’s university system.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2016 and beyond -- Free tuition for all?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Student: Melissa Salcedo, UC Irvine\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11114781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11114781\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Salcedo will attend UC Irvine this fall as a freshman. She’s the first in her family to attend UC. Experts say if current trends in tuition increases persist, UC will become the most expensive public higher education system in the country.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo-1180x796.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MelissaSalcedo-960x648.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Salcedo will attend UC Irvine this fall as a freshman. She’s the first in her family to attend UC. 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Jerry Brown and UC, tuition has remained stable over the past several years, with average tuition and fees costing $13,000 a year for undergraduates. In exchange for no tuition increases, the state is giving UC more state funding as long as the system enrolls more California residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salcedo is also a recipient of UC’s Blue and Gold Opportunity financial aid program. But her mother, Becky Salcedo, says the family is still struggling to pay escalating student fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Melissa knows we would do whatever we can to help her go through because this is what she wants,” Becky Salcedo says. “So yes, dollar signs are going through your head. You’re thinking about what else is coming our way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to institute a \"debt free college education\" have become the focal point for many lawmakers, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. 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Just like that, she had a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, as she rolls out pizza dough at the same Fresno deli, Guadalupe — she goes by Lupe — says she feels trapped here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to do better,” she says. “What I feel like is holding me back is that high school diploma, to get a career, not just a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285510555″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe never really liked school. “I just was on the wrong path as a high school student, getting into trouble, hung around the wrong people,” she says. So she dropped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Lupe makes $11 an hour. She’s not on welfare anymore, but she still depends on food stamps to get by. These days her story is common: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbpp.org/research/the-relationship-between-snap-and-work-among-low-income-households\">More and more people on food stamps have jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11110773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11110773 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\""I've been here so long I can make a pizza in 30 seconds," Beltran says. "I just kinda got stuck." She's hoping to trade her apron for a nurse's uniform. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I’ve been here so long I can make a pizza in 30 seconds,” Beltran says. “I just kinda got stuck.” She’s hoping to trade her apron for a nurse’s uniform. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ever since spending on food stamps went up during the recession — when the number of people using the program spiked — some lawmakers have been pushing for cutbacks. Two years ago, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/09/19/224201716/house-gop-lawmakers-vote-to-cut-food-stamps\">House tried to cut $40 billion\u003c/a> from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One part of the compromise lawmakers came up with was to \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/pressrelease/2014/018614\">put the USDA in charge\u003c/a> of testing new programs that get people working or get them higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s something Lupe has wanted for years. She’d dreamed of becoming a nurse, but it seemed impossible. Then, out of nowhere a couple of months ago, she got a call offering her free help studying for the GED and getting started on the path to nursing. The call came from a caseworker with \u003ca href=\"http://readingandbeyond.org/bridge/\">Fresno Bridge Academy\u003c/a>, one of just 10 education and training programs across the country that got the special USDA funding to reach out to people on food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11110706\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 506px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11110706 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lupe with her kids Louis, 6, and Kaylee, 8. \" width=\"506\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-1.jpg 506w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lupe Beltran with her two children, Louis and Kaylee. \u003ccite>(Guadalupe Beltran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lupe will spend a year and a half working closely with the case manager. She’ll get help preparing for the GED, and once she passes, the program will help her get training to become a certified nursing assistant. Fresno Bridge Academy will help her apply for financial aid, and pay for her textbooks and uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the program has been successful. After a year and a half, 80 percent of students either find jobs or get higher-paying jobs. Thirty percent get off public assistance completely. If that holds true over the course of the USDA study, this little Fresno experiment could help shape the future of food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe knows firsthand what’s at stake. After 15 years working the same low-wage job, her mother got fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They let her go just like that,” Lupe says. “She didn’t have a high school diploma, and there she was stuck.” Lupe says that opened her eyes. “I was like I need to get this diploma. I need to get this out of the way, it’s like a big ol’ stone that’s right there. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Lupe makes $11 an hour. She’s not on welfare anymore, but she still depends on food stamps to get by. These days her story is common: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbpp.org/research/the-relationship-between-snap-and-work-among-low-income-households\">More and more people on food stamps have jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11110773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11110773 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\""I've been here so long I can make a pizza in 30 seconds," Beltran says. "I just kinda got stuck." She's hoping to trade her apron for a nurse's uniform. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-5-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I’ve been here so long I can make a pizza in 30 seconds,” Beltran says. “I just kinda got stuck.” She’s hoping to trade her apron for a nurse’s uniform. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ever since spending on food stamps went up during the recession — when the number of people using the program spiked — some lawmakers have been pushing for cutbacks. Two years ago, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/09/19/224201716/house-gop-lawmakers-vote-to-cut-food-stamps\">House tried to cut $40 billion\u003c/a> from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One part of the compromise lawmakers came up with was to \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/pressrelease/2014/018614\">put the USDA in charge\u003c/a> of testing new programs that get people working or get them higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s something Lupe has wanted for years. She’d dreamed of becoming a nurse, but it seemed impossible. Then, out of nowhere a couple of months ago, she got a call offering her free help studying for the GED and getting started on the path to nursing. The call came from a caseworker with \u003ca href=\"http://readingandbeyond.org/bridge/\">Fresno Bridge Academy\u003c/a>, one of just 10 education and training programs across the country that got the special USDA funding to reach out to people on food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11110706\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 506px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11110706 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lupe with her kids Louis, 6, and Kaylee, 8. \" width=\"506\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-1.jpg 506w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Lupe-Beltran-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lupe Beltran with her two children, Louis and Kaylee. \u003ccite>(Guadalupe Beltran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lupe will spend a year and a half working closely with the case manager. She’ll get help preparing for the GED, and once she passes, the program will help her get training to become a certified nursing assistant. Fresno Bridge Academy will help her apply for financial aid, and pay for her textbooks and uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the program has been successful. After a year and a half, 80 percent of students either find jobs or get higher-paying jobs. Thirty percent get off public assistance completely. If that holds true over the course of the USDA study, this little Fresno experiment could help shape the future of food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe knows firsthand what’s at stake. After 15 years working the same low-wage job, her mother got fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They let her go just like that,” Lupe says. “She didn’t have a high school diploma, and there she was stuck.” Lupe says that opened her eyes. “I was like I need to get this diploma. I need to get this out of the way, it’s like a big ol’ stone that’s right there. I need to move it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least now, she says, she’s got some help.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There’s something empowering but terrifying about handing my microphone over to a 17-year-old to do a radio interview for me. Will she ask the questions I would? Will she remember to press \"record\"?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I decided to trust youth reporter \u003ca href=\"http://coachellaunincorporated.org/?s=karla+martinez\">Karla Martinez \u003c/a>with my mic recently, as we spent the day boarding slow-moving buses winding their way through the rural desert near the Salton Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karla writes for \u003ca href=\"http://coachellaunincorporated.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coachella Unincorporated\u003c/a>, a youth-run magazine documenting life in the rural Eastern Coachella Valley. She and 21-year-old photographer \u003ca href=\"http://coachellaunincorporated.org/?s=Bryan+Mendez\">Bryan Mendez \u003c/a>have been \u003ca href=\"http://coachellaunincorporated.org/?s=transportation\">reporting on the challenges\u003c/a> young people here encounter when it comes to transportation. So if we’re going to talk to teenagers riding a public bus, why not have them talk to one of their peers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285516619\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we boarded the bus, Karla said, \"Transportation does have a lot to do with the opportunities you’re afforded. It kind of limits you -- can I get to the next stop? Can I get to the next goal of my life?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karla understands this well. When she was a baby, her own mom -- then a 16-year-old herself -- lugged her on the bus to public high school, sometimes walking 15 minutes in the heat to get to the bus stop. As Karla grew up, her mom vowed never to have her daughter rely on the public bus, because it comes so infrequently and takes so long to get places. Karla’s mom drives her most places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11111000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11111000 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyLibrary.jpg\" alt=\"Rosy Mendez takes a long bus ride to the public library to get online and do her homework in an air conditioned space. Her family can’t afford internet at home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1157\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyLibrary.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyLibrary-400x241.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyLibrary-800x482.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyLibrary-1180x711.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyLibrary-960x579.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosy Mendez takes a long bus ride to the public library to get online and do her homework in an air-conditioned space. Her family can’t afford internet at home. \u003ccite>(Bryan Mendez/Coachella Unincorporated)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But 16-year-old Rosy Mendez’s mom doesn’t drive, and her dad leaves early to work in the fields. She has no other choice but to take the public bus to a library to get her homework done. Her family doesn’t have internet access, and her high school’s library closes early. The bus comes only once an hour, so if she misses it, she has to wait in the searing heat for the next one. Here’s an excerpt of Karla's interview with her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cb>How does it feel to have to get on the bus and go to where you need to after a long day?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ROSY MENDEZ\u003c/b>: It’s exhausting, because I have to go all the way over there, wait a couple hours, get home, eat, then be able to do all of my homework if I don’t have time to finish it. And then I end up going to bed around 10, 11. It’s exhausting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>In what ways do you feel like the service could be improved for all these young people who use the bus?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MENDEZ\u003c/b>: They could improve on the way that they manage the schedule so there are more buses. For me, every hour is better than having to wait three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How do you feel like the public transportation in the East Valley kind of decides what the future is for the youth in terms of economic opportunity, getting a job, going to school?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MENDEZ\u003c/b>: Well, if the bus comes only once an hour or every three hours, it’s difficult to get to school or a job, or your work. It's just very stressful to fix your schedule and modify it to fit the bus schedule. If you aren’t early to where you need to go, you could get fired, or miss important things from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>When you’re on the bus, when you’re zoning out and listening to music, what goes through your mind?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MENDEZ\u003c/b>: I’m usually just thinking about my work, how am I going to get it done?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the middle of their interview, the transmission overheats and the bus stalls. It starts back up again, but then has to stop for a long train at a railroad crossing and take a detour because of construction. All of that means it takes nearly 45 minutes to go just 5 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rosy is determined to make the bus journey, because she says doing her homework at the library is the only way for her to succeed in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to do engineering, 'cuz I know in my culture, women don’t really do that kind of stuff, so I kind of want to break that barrier,” Rosy tells Karla. “My plan is to be able to go to College of the Desert, the local community college, and then transfer to San Diego State University.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11110998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11110998 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyImprov.jpg\" alt='Rosy Mendez in her improv class at Desert Mirage High School. “I love photography and drama,” she says. “But my dream is to become an engineer.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyImprov.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyImprov-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyImprov-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyImprov-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RosyImprov-960x618.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosy Mendez in her improv class at Desert Mirage High School. 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