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The failure of Signature Bank, which had more than $110 billion in assets, is the third-largest in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to shore up confidence in the banking system, the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said Sunday that all Silicon Valley Bank clients would be protected and able to access their money. They also announced steps that are intended to protect the bank’s customers and prevent additional bank runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This step will ensure that the U.S. banking system continues to perform its vital roles of protecting deposits and providing access to credit to households and businesses in a manner that promotes strong and sustainable economic growth,” the agencies said in a joint statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, including those whose holdings exceed the protected $250,000 insurance limit, will be able to access their money on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Sunday, another beleaguered bank, First Republic Bank, announced that it had bolstered its financial health by gaining access to funding from the Fed and JPMorgan Chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate announcement, the Fed late Sunday announced an expansive emergency lending program that’s intended to prevent a wave of bank runs that would threaten the stability of the banking system and the economy as a whole. Fed officials characterized the program as akin to what central banks have done for decades: Lend freely to the banking system so that customers will be confident they can access their accounts whenever needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lending facility will allow banks that need to raise cash to pay depositors to borrow that money from the Fed, rather than having to sell bonds and other securities to raise the money. Silicon Valley Bank had been forced to dump some of its bonds at a loss to fund its customers’ withdrawals. Under the Fed’s new program, banks can post those securities as collateral and borrow from the emergency facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Treasury has set aside $25 billion to offset any losses incurred under the Fed’s emergency lending facility. Fed officials said, however, that they do not expect to have to use any of that money, given that the securities posted as collateral have a very low risk of default.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts said the Fed’s program should be enough to calm financial markets on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Monday will surely be a stressful day for many in the regional banking sector, but today’s action dramatically reduces the risk of further contagion,” economists at Jefferies, an investment bank, said in a research note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Sunday’s steps marked the most extensive government intervention in the banking system since the 2008 financial crisis, its actions are relatively limited compared with what was done 15 years ago. The two failed banks themselves have not been rescued, and taxpayer money has not been provided to the banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden said Sunday evening as he boarded Air Force One to Washington that he would speak about the bank situation on Monday. In a statement, Biden also said he was “firmly committed to holding those responsible for this mess fully accountable and to continuing our efforts to strengthen oversight and regulation of larger banks so that we are not in this position again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators had to rush to close Silicon Valley Bank, a financial institution with more than $200 billion in assets, on Friday when it experienced a traditional run on the bank where depositors rushed to withdraw their funds all at once. It is the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, behind only the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prominent Silicon Valley executives feared that if the federal government didn’t rescue the failed bank, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/silicon-valley-bank-janet-yellen-bailout-fdic-fail-failed-c224cf4d2ef07c70cd27e7d0d3be628b\">customers would make runs on other financial institutions\u003c/a> in the coming days. Stock prices plunged over the last few days at other banks that cater to technology companies, including First Republic Bank and PacWest Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the bank’s customers are a range of companies, from the local wine industry and technology start-ups devoted to combating climate change. Sunrun, which sells and leases solar energy systems, had less than $80 million of cash deposits with Silicon Valley. Stitch Fix, the clothing retail website, disclosed recently that it had a credit line of up to $100 million with Silicon Valley Bank and other lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Dufu, founder and CEO of The Cru, a New York-based career coaching platform and community for women, posted a video Sunday on LinkedIn from an airport bathroom, saying the bank crisis was \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7040727755319037952/\">testing her resiliency\u003c/a>. Given that her money was tied up at Silicon Valley Bank, she had to pay her employees out of her personal bank account. With two teenagers to support who will be heading to college, she said she was relieved to hear that the government’s intent is to make depositors whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Small businesses and early stage start-ups don’t have a lot of access to leverage in a situation like this, and we’re often in a very vulnerable position, particularly when we have to fight so hard to get the wires into your bank account to begin with, particularly for me, as a Black female founder,” Dufu told The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Bank began its slide into insolvency when its customers, largely technology companies that needed cash as they struggled to get financing, started withdrawing their deposits. The bank had to sell bonds at a loss to cover the withdrawals, leading to the largest failure of a U.S. financial institution since the height of the financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pointed to rising interest rates, which have been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/inflation-federal-reserve-interest-rates-powell-unemployment-79b7ead4530ab381a17638a6c9df2d90\">increased by the Federal Reserve\u003c/a> to combat inflation, as the core problem for Silicon Valley Bank. Many of its assets, such as bonds or mortgage-backed securities, lost market value as rates climbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheila Bair, who was chair of the FDIC during the 2008 financial crisis, recalled that with nearly all the bank failures then, “we sold a failed bank to a healthy bank. And usually, the healthy acquirer would also cover the uninsured because they wanted the franchise value of those large depositors, so optimally, that’s the best outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with Silicon Valley Bank, she told NBC’s \u003cem>Meet the Press\u003c/em>, “this was a liquidity failure, it was a bank run, so they didn’t have time to prepare to market the bank. So they’re having to do that now, and playing catchup.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. rushed to seize the assets of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday after it experienced a run on the bank, the second biggest bank failure in history after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/08aeb5a6c9d542ccb6d6154d4fa1e3a6\">Washington Mutual\u003c/a> during the height of the financial crisis more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley, the nation’s 16th-largest bank, failed after depositors — mostly technology workers and venture capital-backed companies — hurried to withdraw money this week as anxiety over the bank’s balance sheet spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-amazoncom-inc-europe-software-business-b23cd72310f20ce2320a36eadc26eded\">heavily exposed to the tech industry\u003c/a>, and there is little chance of contagion in the banking sector similar to the chaos in the months leading up to the Great Recession more than a decade ago. The biggest banks — those most likely to cause a systemic economic issue — have healthy balance sheets and plenty of capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression rippled across the globe after mortgage-backed securities tied to ill-advised housing loans rippled from the U.S. to Asia and Europe. The panic on Wall Street led to the collapse of the storied Lehman Brothers, founded in 1847. Because major banks had extensive exposure to one another, it led to cascading disruption throughout the global financial system, putting millions out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943242\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11943242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-800x548.jpg\" alt='A small crowd of people is seen reflected from the window of SVBN headquarters, with the word \"SVB\" on the window in the foreground. Behind the crowd is a carpark on a grey and cloudy day.' width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up outside the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank headquarters on March 10, 2023, in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, there has been unease in the banking sector all week, and the collapse of Silicon Valley pushed shares of almost all financial institutions lower Friday, when they’d already tumbled by double digits since Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Bank’s failure arrived with incredible speed, with some industry analysts on Friday suggesting it was a good company and still likely a wise investment. SVB executives were trying to raise capital early Friday and find additional investors. However, trading in the bank’s shares was halted before the opening bell due to extreme volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before noon Eastern Time, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation moved to shutter the bank. Notably, the FDIC did not wait until the close of business to seize the bank, as is typical in an orderly winding down of a financial institution. The FDIC could not immediately find a buyer for the bank’s assets, signaling how fast depositors had cashed out. The bank’s remaining uninsured deposits will now be locked up in receivership.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ashley Tyrner, CEO, FarmboxRx\"]‘One friend said they couldn’t make payroll today and cried when they had to inform 200 employees because of this issue.’[/pullquote]The bank had $209 billion in total assets at the time of failure, the FDIC said. It was unclear how much of its deposits were above the $250,000 insurance limit at the moment, but previous regulatory reports showed that much of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits exceeded that limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDIC said Friday that deposits below the $250,000 limit would be available Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Bank still appeared stable this year, but on Thursday it announced plans to raise up to $1.75 billion to strengthen its capital position. That sent investors scurrying and shares plunging 60%. They rocketed lower again Friday before the opening of the Nasdaq, where it is traded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As its name implied, Silicon Valley Bank was a major financial conduit among the technology sector, its founders and start-ups as well as its workers. Hundreds of companies held their operating capital with the bank, and it was seen as good business sense to develop a relationship with Silicon Valley Bank if a founder wanted to find new investors or go public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw building a relationship with Silicon Valley Bank as a logical step, given their reach,” said Ashley Tyrner, CEO of FarmboxRx, a company that delivers food as medicine to Medicaid and Medicare recipients. While Tyrner has money in other banks and can make payroll, she said a good portion of her business’s profits are now locked up with the bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Silicon Valley’s connections to the tech sector became a liability rapidly. Technology stocks have been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-amazoncom-inc-europe-software-business-b23cd72310f20ce2320a36eadc26eded\">hit hard in the past 18 months\u003c/a> after a growth surge during the pandemic and layoffs throughout the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943252\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11943252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1247999987-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A white notice is taped to the glass door of SVB headquarters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1247999987-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1247999987-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1247999987-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1247999987.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A notice of Silicon Valley Bank’s closure hangs at the bank’s headquarters in Santa Clara on March 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the bank was hit hard by the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/inflation-federal-reserve-interest-rates-powell-unemployment-79b7ead4530ab381a17638a6c9df2d90\">Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation\u003c/a> and an aggressive series of interest rate hikes to cool the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Fed raises its benchmark interest rate, the value of bonds, typically a stable asset, start to fall. That is not typically a problem, as the declines lead to “unrealized losses,” or losses that are not counted against banks when calculating the capital cushion they can use should there be a downturn in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when depositors grow anxious and begin withdrawing their money, banks sometimes have to sell those bonds before they mature to cover that exodus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is exactly what happened to Silicon Valley Bank, which had to sell $21 billion in highly liquid assets to cover the exodus of deposits. It took a $1.8 billion loss on that sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrner said she’s spoken to several friends who are backed by venture capital. She described those friends as being “beside themselves” over the bank’s failure. Tyrner’s chief operating officer tried to withdraw her company’s funds on Thursday, but failed to do so in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One friend said they couldn’t make payroll today and cried when they had to inform 200 employees because of this issue,” Tyrner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The U.S. rushed to seize the assets of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday after it experienced a run on the bank, the second biggest bank failure in history after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/08aeb5a6c9d542ccb6d6154d4fa1e3a6\">Washington Mutual\u003c/a> during the height of the financial crisis more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley, the nation’s 16th-largest bank, failed after depositors — mostly technology workers and venture capital-backed companies — hurried to withdraw money this week as anxiety over the bank’s balance sheet spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-amazoncom-inc-europe-software-business-b23cd72310f20ce2320a36eadc26eded\">heavily exposed to the tech industry\u003c/a>, and there is little chance of contagion in the banking sector similar to the chaos in the months leading up to the Great Recession more than a decade ago. The biggest banks — those most likely to cause a systemic economic issue — have healthy balance sheets and plenty of capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression rippled across the globe after mortgage-backed securities tied to ill-advised housing loans rippled from the U.S. to Asia and Europe. The panic on Wall Street led to the collapse of the storied Lehman Brothers, founded in 1847. Because major banks had extensive exposure to one another, it led to cascading disruption throughout the global financial system, putting millions out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943242\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11943242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-800x548.jpg\" alt='A small crowd of people is seen reflected from the window of SVBN headquarters, with the word \"SVB\" on the window in the foreground. Behind the crowd is a carpark on a grey and cloudy day.' width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up outside the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank headquarters on March 10, 2023, in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, there has been unease in the banking sector all week, and the collapse of Silicon Valley pushed shares of almost all financial institutions lower Friday, when they’d already tumbled by double digits since Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Bank’s failure arrived with incredible speed, with some industry analysts on Friday suggesting it was a good company and still likely a wise investment. SVB executives were trying to raise capital early Friday and find additional investors. However, trading in the bank’s shares was halted before the opening bell due to extreme volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before noon Eastern Time, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation moved to shutter the bank. Notably, the FDIC did not wait until the close of business to seize the bank, as is typical in an orderly winding down of a financial institution. The FDIC could not immediately find a buyer for the bank’s assets, signaling how fast depositors had cashed out. The bank’s remaining uninsured deposits will now be locked up in receivership.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n San Francisco's Mission District, three newly built backyard cottages are ready for older adults and lower-income families. But, no one will be able to move in for the foreseeable future: Even though electrical wiring is installed, the apartments don't have power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive Director Sam Moss of the Mission Housing Development Corporation is proud of what his nonprofit has built on property the organization owns. The new homes are within walking distance of two BART stations, major bus lines and grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mission Housing figured out how to convert our garages with our own funds,\" he said. \"We did not go to any government agency and ask for a grant. If that isn't what we need right now in our housing crisis, then I don't know what it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, during a recent meeting between Mission Housing and PG&E, an inspector told Moss he didn't know when the company would be able to connect the buildings, due to internal delays at PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then he left, with no explanation and no estimation of when someone was going to come,\" Moss said. \"We're talking about three very high-quality, 100% affordable units for seniors and low-income families [that are] just going to sit vacant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for PG&E said the company needed more information about this project before it could respond. But after KQED inquired about it, Moss said Mission Housing received a call from a PG&E inspector saying they would come to the construction site in mid-April to reassess the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connecting new buildings to the grid is a problem developers say is not unique to PG&E, but they cite the company as the worst offender — with delays that can add months or even years to a project before it opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a new issue, but developers like Moss say it's exacerbated by pandemic-induced supply chain problems, coupled with the increasing severity of storms and wildfires, and more demand for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener\"]'PG&E is not just falling short of perfection. It's causing huge problems with getting projects open and connected to the grid.'[/pullquote]As California attempts to build 2.5 million homes by 2031, developers say utility companies will have to adhere to a stricter timeline to get more housing completed faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new bill introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, SB 83, attempts to do just that. It would set an eight-week deadline for utility companies to connect newly constructed buildings. If a project is delayed further, the company would have to bear the cost, which is currently borne by the developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not asking for perfection,\" Wiener said. \"PG&E is not just falling short of perfection. It's causing huge problems with getting projects open and connected to the grid. There has to be a more structured system. There has to be an actual time line and consequences for failing to meet that time line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo shows primarily a wooden power pole with utility lines crossing the sky, and the outline of the top of a building that looks like a San Francisco victorian in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-1536x989.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E utility poles in San Francisco's Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lynsey Paulo, spokesperson for PG&E, said in a statement the company is committed to working with policymakers on the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to work with lawmakers to ensure the right policy and regulatory frameworks are included to support the state's goals,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A problem of their own making\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Between 2018 and 2022, Southern California Edison and PG&E connected just over 10,000 commercial and residential buildings, according to self-reported data both investor-owned utilities provided to Wiener's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E took nearly six times as long: Southern California Edison took an average of nine days to turn on the lights after a building finished construction. For PG&E, the average was 64 days. As of mid-February, the wait time for nearly 30% of new buildings under PG&E's purview was more than 90 days, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Wiener's perspective, this is a problem of the utility behemoth's own making, in part because it expanded services across the state and because it's the only utility company most developers can work with in the areas it operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was PG&E's decision to become unsustainably large,\" Wiener said. \"To complain that, 'We don't have the resources because we're so big, which is a choice that we made,' is not a convincing argument.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11938267 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/026_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-1020x680.jpg']Others take a more sympathetic approach. Corey Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Action Coalition, which is co-sponsoring the bill, said the company is struggling to replace aging equipment as it responds to increasingly severe wildfires and storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite literally the person power and where to send a finite number of employees with aging infrastructure,\" Smith said. \"It's a real challenge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E provides electricity to more than \u003ca href=\"//www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">5.5 million customers\u003c/a> across the state, in a service area that stretches across 70,000 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has so much power – both literally and figuratively – many developers refused to speak with KQED on the record out of fear of retribution. Moss is worried about that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm worried about the real retribution, which is units not coming online,\" he said. \"It's seniors remaining homeless, families and kids remaining homeless because PG&E refuses to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A black hole'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting a housing project approved and ready to start construction is arduous enough, but developers say connecting to the grid adds its own complexity: It involves a slew of paperwork, permits and approvals. There's an initial inspection, and then developers submit formal plans to the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting PG&E inspectors out to construction sites has become frustrating. Larry Florin, CEO of nonprofit affordable housing developer Burbank Housing, said he scheduled an inspector to come to a site in Napa County earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning of the inspection, Florin got a call saying PG&E was dealing with weather issues they had to tend to first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The earliest they could come back would be six weeks,\" he said. \"We're constantly dealing with issues like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paulo said that while PG&E wants to work closely with developers and builders, responding to more frequent weather events and natural disasters has \"required significant financial and workforce resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This work, compounded with a significant growth in electric demand after decades of flat demand, has resulted in some projects being delayed or rescheduled,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Florin said there are other ways PG&E can hold up a project. Once an inspector is able to sign off on plans, and a building gets built, developers have to order specialized equipment to hook up the building to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not always clear what equipment is needed. PG&E's requirements change from one project to another, Florin said, and the company often doesn't provide proper guidance, leaving developers like Burbank in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you reach out to PG&E, it's like a black hole,\" he said. \"You get nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moss said that lack of communication can lead to expensive, mid-construction changes that are especially challenging for nonprofit housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When PG&E comes and says, 'Actually, you've got to move this over here,' it might sound like one quick little change, but one little change has a domino effect,\" he said. \"And then your whole schedule is thrown off. And with especially 100% affordable housing, we don't have the ability to spend an extra million dollars in change orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']Moss faced just such a situation recently with a project Mission Housing is currently building adjacent to the Balboa Park BART station. The nonprofit needed temporary power to build 131 affordable apartments there. Moss said they waited almost a year for PG&E to provide a cost estimate to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), which buys wholesale power from PG&E, so SFPUC could turn on the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesperson Melissa Subbotin said, at that point, “SFPUC did not authorize PG&E to proceed with temporary generation on this project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Moss said that’s because PG&E also required Mission Housing to make expensive changes to the project in order to do that. He called upon elected officials to pressure PG&E to work out a compromise with the SFPUC, including Wiener and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who sent letters to the utility. But it was to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars building [the units] on generators,\" Moss said. \"We had to spend money on generators and fuel all because PG&E refused to get power to build this building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the project was initially proposed, Mission Housing envisioned including a child care facility along with retail space on the ground floor. Now that's in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have significantly less money from the overall construction loan to build out our ground floor spaces because we had to spend it on fuel,\" he said. \"Mission Housing is coming out of pocket to pay for things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is nearing completion, and the nonprofit hopes to begin leasing the apartments in June. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As California attempts to build 2.5 million homes by 2031, developers say utility companies will have to adhere to a stricter timeline to get more housing completed faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new bill introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, SB 83, attempts to do just that. It would set an eight-week deadline for utility companies to connect newly constructed buildings. If a project is delayed further, the company would have to bear the cost, which is currently borne by the developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not asking for perfection,\" Wiener said. \"PG&E is not just falling short of perfection. It's causing huge problems with getting projects open and connected to the grid. There has to be a more structured system. There has to be an actual time line and consequences for failing to meet that time line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo shows primarily a wooden power pole with utility lines crossing the sky, and the outline of the top of a building that looks like a San Francisco victorian in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-1536x989.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E utility poles in San Francisco's Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lynsey Paulo, spokesperson for PG&E, said in a statement the company is committed to working with policymakers on the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to work with lawmakers to ensure the right policy and regulatory frameworks are included to support the state's goals,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A problem of their own making\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Between 2018 and 2022, Southern California Edison and PG&E connected just over 10,000 commercial and residential buildings, according to self-reported data both investor-owned utilities provided to Wiener's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E took nearly six times as long: Southern California Edison took an average of nine days to turn on the lights after a building finished construction. For PG&E, the average was 64 days. As of mid-February, the wait time for nearly 30% of new buildings under PG&E's purview was more than 90 days, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Wiener's perspective, this is a problem of the utility behemoth's own making, in part because it expanded services across the state and because it's the only utility company most developers can work with in the areas it operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was PG&E's decision to become unsustainably large,\" Wiener said. \"To complain that, 'We don't have the resources because we're so big, which is a choice that we made,' is not a convincing argument.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Others take a more sympathetic approach. Corey Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Action Coalition, which is co-sponsoring the bill, said the company is struggling to replace aging equipment as it responds to increasingly severe wildfires and storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite literally the person power and where to send a finite number of employees with aging infrastructure,\" Smith said. \"It's a real challenge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E provides electricity to more than \u003ca href=\"//www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">5.5 million customers\u003c/a> across the state, in a service area that stretches across 70,000 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has so much power – both literally and figuratively – many developers refused to speak with KQED on the record out of fear of retribution. Moss is worried about that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm worried about the real retribution, which is units not coming online,\" he said. \"It's seniors remaining homeless, families and kids remaining homeless because PG&E refuses to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A black hole'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting a housing project approved and ready to start construction is arduous enough, but developers say connecting to the grid adds its own complexity: It involves a slew of paperwork, permits and approvals. There's an initial inspection, and then developers submit formal plans to the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting PG&E inspectors out to construction sites has become frustrating. Larry Florin, CEO of nonprofit affordable housing developer Burbank Housing, said he scheduled an inspector to come to a site in Napa County earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning of the inspection, Florin got a call saying PG&E was dealing with weather issues they had to tend to first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The earliest they could come back would be six weeks,\" he said. \"We're constantly dealing with issues like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paulo said that while PG&E wants to work closely with developers and builders, responding to more frequent weather events and natural disasters has \"required significant financial and workforce resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This work, compounded with a significant growth in electric demand after decades of flat demand, has resulted in some projects being delayed or rescheduled,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Florin said there are other ways PG&E can hold up a project. Once an inspector is able to sign off on plans, and a building gets built, developers have to order specialized equipment to hook up the building to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not always clear what equipment is needed. PG&E's requirements change from one project to another, Florin said, and the company often doesn't provide proper guidance, leaving developers like Burbank in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you reach out to PG&E, it's like a black hole,\" he said. \"You get nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moss said that lack of communication can lead to expensive, mid-construction changes that are especially challenging for nonprofit housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When PG&E comes and says, 'Actually, you've got to move this over here,' it might sound like one quick little change, but one little change has a domino effect,\" he said. \"And then your whole schedule is thrown off. And with especially 100% affordable housing, we don't have the ability to spend an extra million dollars in change orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Moss faced just such a situation recently with a project Mission Housing is currently building adjacent to the Balboa Park BART station. The nonprofit needed temporary power to build 131 affordable apartments there. Moss said they waited almost a year for PG&E to provide a cost estimate to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), which buys wholesale power from PG&E, so SFPUC could turn on the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesperson Melissa Subbotin said, at that point, “SFPUC did not authorize PG&E to proceed with temporary generation on this project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Moss said that’s because PG&E also required Mission Housing to make expensive changes to the project in order to do that. He called upon elected officials to pressure PG&E to work out a compromise with the SFPUC, including Wiener and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who sent letters to the utility. But it was to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars building [the units] on generators,\" Moss said. \"We had to spend money on generators and fuel all because PG&E refused to get power to build this building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the project was initially proposed, Mission Housing envisioned including a child care facility along with retail space on the ground floor. Now that's in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have significantly less money from the overall construction loan to build out our ground floor spaces because we had to spend it on fuel,\" he said. \"Mission Housing is coming out of pocket to pay for things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is nearing completion, and the nonprofit hopes to begin leasing the apartments in June. But it still hasn't been hooked up to the grid, and Moss isn't sure when it will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the uncertainty that's the hardest thing to deal with,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include responses from PG&E representatives.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As an orphaned child in rural southern Mexico, Abraham Salazar said he began working when he was just 10 years old. He helped to plow fields and grow corn and beans in the municipality of Constancia del Rosario, in the state of Oaxaca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he settled in California’s wine country in 1990, Salazar kept toiling in agriculture. He tore roots and rocks out to prepare fields for planting. He pruned and harvested miles of vines, sometimes during grueling all-night shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 62 years old, Salazar said his lower back hurts, sometimes intensely. His heavily calloused hands are becoming arthritic. But he can’t afford to stop working, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I may be 80 or 90, but I won’t get anything of what I paid into Social Security during all those years of work,” said Salazar, who is turning 63 next week, in Spanish. “Absolutely nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar is part of a growing wave of hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers who are reaching or past retirement age in the U.S. but who are ineligible to receive Social Security benefits, even though many paid automatic payroll taxes into that system for years.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11940706,news_11941716,news_11939848\"]A new state bill in California proposes to offer undocumented older adults an economic safety net when they can no longer work. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1536\">AB 1536\u003c/a> would expand a state-funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/capi\">cash assistance program\u003c/a>, which currently offers individuals about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Letters-and-Notices/ACINs/2022/I-71_22.pdf?ver=2022-11-08-131239-837\">$1,100 per month (PDF)\u003c/a>, to cover undocumented residents aged 65 and older as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would give them a monthly stipend, so that they can age with dignity and justice,” said Angelica Salas, who directs the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, after rallying for the bill with its author, Assemblymember Juan Carrillo (D-Palmdale), in Sacramento last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do not create a [safety net] system for this population, we are going to have a severe crisis of individuals who have labored and contributed to California, but who will then live in severe poverty in the very same state where they left their youth,” Salas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants who are hired without valid work authorization in industries like construction and food services \u003ca href=\"https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/how-do-undocumented-immigrants-pay-federal-taxes-an-explainer/\">often provide a Social Security number that is fake, expired or not their own\u003c/a>. Most employers in California and other states, who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/presentations/EVerifyPresentation.pdf\">not required to check the validity of the nine-digit number (PDF)\u003c/a>, deduct Social Security, federal, state and other taxes from the workers’ paychecks, like with any other employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is that nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_notes/note151.pdf\">unauthorized immigrant workers contributed a whopping $13 billion in automatic payroll taxes to the Social Security system\u003c/a> in a single year, according to the most recent estimates by the Social Security Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of that money was a “net positive” to the program’s cash flow, said the agency’s chief actuary, Stephen Goss. That means undocumented workers help fund the monthly retirement checks of U.S. citizens and legal residents, but likely won’t receive the payments when they themselves become seniors.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Angelica Salas, director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights\"]‘If we do not create a system for this population, we are going to have a severe crisis of individuals who have labored and contributed to California, but who will then live in severe poverty in the very same state where they left their youth.’[/pullquote]“It’s tragic, it’s unjust,” said Salas. “They worked hard in some of the hardest and most backbreaking jobs in this country. They contributed. And now they’re completely locked out of benefits as they reach their golden years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar, who worked in agriculture for about three decades, said it was impossible to save any money on the low wages he earned, while taking care of his family and bills. Getting access to a regular stipend as he ages would be a “huge help” to reach his dream of retiring one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be magnificent because we work a lot but don’t get any help,” said Salazar, who recently launched a landscaping business. He hopes that, by working for himself, he’ll earn enough to start saving for retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11943071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63167_02242023_agingundocumented-051-qut-1020x678.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits on a bet facing toward a window, smiling, with light on his face. He wears a button down collared shirt with a long sleeve underneath and dark pants. 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Salazar, 62, is one of thousands of undocumented California farmworkers who are reaching or past retirement age but must continue working because they are ineligible for Social Security benefits. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Growing number of undocumented workers reaching retirement age\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/clc.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/a_golden_age.pdf\">165,000 undocumented workers in California were age 55 and older in 2019\u003c/a>, according to an analysis of census figures published Tuesday by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center. That figure is about 680,000 across the country, said the center’s co-director, Edward Flores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these workers were unable to legalize their status because they arrived in the U.S. in the years after eligibility for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890914/out-of-the-shadows-explores-the-complicated-history-of-the-1986-amnesty-law-that-changed-the-lives-of-millions\">last federal amnesty for undocumented immigrants\u003c/a>, which passed during the Reagan administration in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores said the statistics point to a growing demographic wave, and that the country has not yet begun to reckon with the implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do you do with a significant proportion of our workforce who has been laboring for decades, without access to a social and economic safety net?” he asked. “Now that they are aging and can’t work, they will be in a much more vulnerable position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Abraham Salazar\"]‘I may be 80 or 90, but I won’t get anything of what I paid into Social Security during all those years of work. 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As migration flows from Mexico slowed down in the mid-2000s, the age distribution of California agricultural workers shifted, with farmworkers age 55 to 64 increasing by 64% over the last decade, the UC Merced analysis found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aging workforce has left agricultural employers grappling with a shortage of labor for years, especially in areas like the state’s Central Coast, where strawberries, lettuce and other top crops are not harvested mechanically, said Norm Groot, executive director at the Monterey County Farm Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not replacing those who are aging out of the workforce with new immigrant labor. 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But he acknowledges he’s less physically able to climb ladders up fruit trees or carry heavy crates all day. He’s considering quitting work in two or three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ponce arrived undocumented from Mexico in the early 1980s, but was able to benefit from the Reagan-era amnesty and obtain a green card, allowing him to work legally in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long-time member of United Farm Workers, Ponce continues to attend marches and rallies supporting legislation that could aid workers who migrated to the U.S. in the years after him, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.farmworkerjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FarmWorkforceModernizationAct-FactSheet-FJ-2021.pdf\">Farm Workforce Modernization Act (PDF)\u003c/a>. 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The policy has resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of people seeking asylum and has discouraged many others from crossing the border.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11936012,news_11910789,news_11936184\"]The policy states that if the U.S. surgeon general determines there is a communicable disease in another country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/265\">health officials have the authority, with the approval of the president, to prohibit\u003c/a> “the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places” for as long as health officials determine that action is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure had been set to lift last week by order of a federal court, which would have allowed many asylum-seekers waiting in limbo at the border to go ahead and cross into the United States. Some experts say that because smugglers in Mexico use any shift in U.S. immigration policy to exploit migrants, mere conversation about the possibility of lifting Title 42 triggered even more people to try to cross into the U.S. in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22a544_n758.pdf\">Supreme Court’s brief order (PDF)\u003c/a> Tuesday stayed — meaning delayed — the trial judge’s ruling that would have lifted Title 42 until the high court hears arguments in the case in February. The political and legal ping-pong in the case is hard enough for U.S. audiences to follow, making it nearly impossible to explain south of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s order is a response to a request filed by 19 Republican-led states that they be heard in the case. It does not overrule the lower court’s decision that Title 42 is illegal; it merely leaves the measure in place while the legal challenges play out in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal court order that was supposed to lift Title 42 came as a result of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of asylum-seeking families. Asylum is a protection codified in international law for foreign nationals who meet the legal definition of “refugee.” The United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol define refugees as people unable or unwilling to return to their home country, and who cannot obtain protection in that country, due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future “on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” Congress incorporated this definition into U.S. immigration law in the Refugee Act of 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those stuck in Mexico because of Title 42, waiting can be perilous. 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We’re willing to step up, but they have to step up, too, by giving us the resources we need to deal with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He joined several local Republican and Democratic leaders in San Diego in urging in letters and news conferences that the state and the feds should provide more support ahead of the expected end of Title 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials pointed to needing more funding for schools, hospitals, and police services, among other resources, if Title 42 eventually lifts. The near constant legal back-and-forth has also provided a convenient conversation starter for politicians wanting to debate larger immigration policy issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the state budget projecting a $25 billion deficit, I’d like to know what the plan is for our schools and to help lift all of our students,” said Andrew Hayes, board president of the Lakeside school district in rural eastern San Diego. Hayes said increases in immigration causes strains to the local educational systems because students fleeing persecution in other countries often have increased mental health needs and sometimes require special instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisors Nathan Fletcher and Nora Vargas, both Democrats, wrote to Alejandro Mayorkas, the U.S. homeland security secretary, on December 19, also requesting federal resources and “a comprehensive plan to ensure humane entry into the United States for those seeking asylum into our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Title 42 is lifted, we will need additional resources and personnel on the ground to process and arrange for the onward travel of asylum seekers to their final destination,” they wrote. ”We will also need the federal government to set up temporary shelters on federal property to ensure access to needed social and health services. Our hospitals, our public health department, our social services, and our homeless service providers are already at maximum capacity serving vulnerable residents in San Diego.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>El Cajon not ‘the governor’s neighborhood’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Title 42 policy’s end “will likely increase” migration flows, the Department of Homeland Security officially said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burden will unfairly fall on a few border cities, Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not talking about releasing people into Sacramento or putting people in the governor’s neighborhood,” said Anderson. “No, they’re talking about releasing people right here in El Cajon, where the median household income is just over $58,000 per year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office responded that the state has done what it can to support local jurisdictions.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joel Anderson, supervisor, San Diego County\"]‘It is irresponsible to ask the City of El Cajon to shoulder the burden and costs necessary to address the needs of these individuals without assistance from the [state] and federal government.’[/pullquote]“While the federal government is responsible for immigration, California has invested more than any other state to ensure the safety and dignity of asylum seekers. Roughly $1 billion has been invested to provide critical services to migrants, including medical screenings, vaccinations, temporary shelter, food, clothes, and other aid. However, with looming budget deficits, the state cannot continue to fund these efforts at scale without significant support from Congress,” said Daniel Lopez, the deputy communications director for Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has advocated for additional resources to help communities like San Diego provide services to recently arrived migrants,” Lopez added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom on December 14 complaining that a plan that San Diego County officials proposed to the state was rejected. Though he declined to discuss the plan’s specifics, he said it included opening a temporary emergency shelter, providing food, clothing, healthcare and wrap-around services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is irresponsible to ask the City of El Cajon to shoulder the burden and costs necessary to address the needs of these individuals without assistance from the State and federal government,” wrote Anderson in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Newsom has been complaining of a lack of federal support for asylum seekers and immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said earlier this month that, because of the federal government’s lackluster support, the state has had to spend nearly $1 billion in the last three years, working with nonprofits to provide immigrants released from federal detention with health screenings, temporary shelter and help connecting with sponsors. The immigrants had been held at nine facilities in Imperial, San Diego and Riverside counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the respect to the federal government, we’ve been doing their job for the last few years at scale,” Newsom said. “But we cannot continue to absorb that responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislative Analyst’s Office recently said in its annual forecast that Newsom and the Democratic Party-controlled Legislature are facing a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/12/california-budget-deficit-safety-net/\">$24 billion projected budget deficit\u003c/a> for the next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state enters a recession the outlook is even worse, with revenues predicted to fall short by $30 billion to $50 billion. The governor signed a record-breaking \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/06/california-budget-deal-2/\">$308 billion budget\u003c/a> in June.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘With the respect to the federal government, we’ve been doing their job for the last few years at scale. But we cannot continue to absorb that responsibility.’[/pullquote]Advocates say that while migrants sometimes require services when they first enter the country, research shows they ultimately contribute to the larger economy. In California undocumented immigrants collectively pay $3.1 billion a year in state and local taxes, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://itep.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/ITEP-2017-Undocumented-Immigrants-State-and-Local-Contributions.pdf\">Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some migrants in Mexico last week expressed disappointment, concern and confusion about the delay in lifting Title 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people said they had left shelters with the expectation that the order would be released last week and now they had no place to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the scene outside El Chaparral, a pedestrian border crossing between San Ysidro and Tijuana that has been closed since the pandemic began, looked far different than images coming out of Texas. There, members of the National Guard, armed with rifles, have put up razor wire and are blocking migrants from entering the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Waiting patiently, but getting desperate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Here in Baja California, just south of San Diego, migrants wearing masks stood patiently in lines last week waiting for services or to receive news about any policy changes that may impact their ability to cross the border. The flow of people in the area was orderly, mirroring any other normal mid-week day during the lunch hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A migrant from Michoacán said being out on the streets in Tijuana was extremely uncomfortable for his wife, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. He asked not to be named because people in Tijuana were looking for him, putting him in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t been able to receive any help from anywhere,” he said. “We’re getting desperate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said that the county was willing to welcome asylum seekers “with open arms,” but it needs more funds to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if it’s only 10 more people coming in, that’s 10 people too many without additional funding because we already have so many people living on our streets needing services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936463\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936463\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A migrant mother with her baby in her arms and her daughter by her side sit among other asylum seekers in a crowded room with iron bars on windows.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants line up to get health services near the free non-profit clinic in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos A. Moreno/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom toured a state-funded migrant center that provides services to asylum seekers near the Imperial County border with Mexico on December 12. There the governor criticized Republicans in Congress for politicizing immigration while failing to support comprehensive reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said it plans to boost resources at the border, “increasing processing efficiency, imposing consequences for unlawful entry, bolstering nonprofit capacity, targeting smugglers and working with international partners,” a DHS spokesperson said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Title 42 is ultimately lifted, the process for processing migrants at the border would return to the way it was before the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum seekers who don’t have prior permission to be in the country would have to pass what’s called a “credible fear” test. They would have to prove to a processing agent or asylum officer that they have a well-founded fear that if they are deported home, they would face persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that test, migrants would either be removed from the country, detained in immigration custody or released into the U.S. to wait while their asylum cases make their way through immigration court — a \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/672/\">process that can take years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The policy states that if the U.S. surgeon general determines there is a communicable disease in another country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/265\">health officials have the authority, with the approval of the president, to prohibit\u003c/a> “the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places” for as long as health officials determine that action is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure had been set to lift last week by order of a federal court, which would have allowed many asylum-seekers waiting in limbo at the border to go ahead and cross into the United States. Some experts say that because smugglers in Mexico use any shift in U.S. immigration policy to exploit migrants, mere conversation about the possibility of lifting Title 42 triggered even more people to try to cross into the U.S. in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22a544_n758.pdf\">Supreme Court’s brief order (PDF)\u003c/a> Tuesday stayed — meaning delayed — the trial judge’s ruling that would have lifted Title 42 until the high court hears arguments in the case in February. The political and legal ping-pong in the case is hard enough for U.S. audiences to follow, making it nearly impossible to explain south of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s order is a response to a request filed by 19 Republican-led states that they be heard in the case. It does not overrule the lower court’s decision that Title 42 is illegal; it merely leaves the measure in place while the legal challenges play out in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal court order that was supposed to lift Title 42 came as a result of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of asylum-seeking families. Asylum is a protection codified in international law for foreign nationals who meet the legal definition of “refugee.” The United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol define refugees as people unable or unwilling to return to their home country, and who cannot obtain protection in that country, due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future “on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” Congress incorporated this definition into U.S. immigration law in the Refugee Act of 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those stuck in Mexico because of Title 42, waiting can be perilous. Human Rights First has documented more than 13,000 attacks on asylum seekers waiting in Mexico during the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936462\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936462\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Latinx migrants of various ages from adults to children look on with concerned expressions as they stand next to white steel barriers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants wait in line while California border activists organize the group to enter the U.S. and seek asylum through the Chaparral entryway in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos A. Moreno for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because it takes time for news of shifts in U.S. immigration policy to reach areas in rural Mexico and Central America, the numbers of migrants arriving in Tijuana and San Diego this week in anticipation of the end of Title 42 could be elevated right now — and it may take some time before those numbers drop-off as news travels, experts said. Migration numbers typically increase through the first half of the year before dropping off in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Joel Anderson, a former Republican state senator, was among a group of political leaders who recently complained that the state and federal governments have not provided the funds local leaders have requested to handle the expected influx of asylum seekers and other migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not even talking about whether these are good policies or not,” he said. “But whatever the policy is, we become the targets of it. We’re willing to step up, but they have to step up, too, by giving us the resources we need to deal with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He joined several local Republican and Democratic leaders in San Diego in urging in letters and news conferences that the state and the feds should provide more support ahead of the expected end of Title 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials pointed to needing more funding for schools, hospitals, and police services, among other resources, if Title 42 eventually lifts. The near constant legal back-and-forth has also provided a convenient conversation starter for politicians wanting to debate larger immigration policy issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the state budget projecting a $25 billion deficit, I’d like to know what the plan is for our schools and to help lift all of our students,” said Andrew Hayes, board president of the Lakeside school district in rural eastern San Diego. Hayes said increases in immigration causes strains to the local educational systems because students fleeing persecution in other countries often have increased mental health needs and sometimes require special instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisors Nathan Fletcher and Nora Vargas, both Democrats, wrote to Alejandro Mayorkas, the U.S. homeland security secretary, on December 19, also requesting federal resources and “a comprehensive plan to ensure humane entry into the United States for those seeking asylum into our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Title 42 is lifted, we will need additional resources and personnel on the ground to process and arrange for the onward travel of asylum seekers to their final destination,” they wrote. ”We will also need the federal government to set up temporary shelters on federal property to ensure access to needed social and health services. Our hospitals, our public health department, our social services, and our homeless service providers are already at maximum capacity serving vulnerable residents in San Diego.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>El Cajon not ‘the governor’s neighborhood’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Title 42 policy’s end “will likely increase” migration flows, the Department of Homeland Security officially said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burden will unfairly fall on a few border cities, Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not talking about releasing people into Sacramento or putting people in the governor’s neighborhood,” said Anderson. “No, they’re talking about releasing people right here in El Cajon, where the median household income is just over $58,000 per year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office responded that the state has done what it can to support local jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Advocates say that while migrants sometimes require services when they first enter the country, research shows they ultimately contribute to the larger economy. In California undocumented immigrants collectively pay $3.1 billion a year in state and local taxes, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://itep.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/ITEP-2017-Undocumented-Immigrants-State-and-Local-Contributions.pdf\">Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some migrants in Mexico last week expressed disappointment, concern and confusion about the delay in lifting Title 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people said they had left shelters with the expectation that the order would be released last week and now they had no place to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the scene outside El Chaparral, a pedestrian border crossing between San Ysidro and Tijuana that has been closed since the pandemic began, looked far different than images coming out of Texas. There, members of the National Guard, armed with rifles, have put up razor wire and are blocking migrants from entering the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Waiting patiently, but getting desperate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Here in Baja California, just south of San Diego, migrants wearing masks stood patiently in lines last week waiting for services or to receive news about any policy changes that may impact their ability to cross the border. The flow of people in the area was orderly, mirroring any other normal mid-week day during the lunch hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A migrant from Michoacán said being out on the streets in Tijuana was extremely uncomfortable for his wife, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. He asked not to be named because people in Tijuana were looking for him, putting him in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t been able to receive any help from anywhere,” he said. “We’re getting desperate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said that the county was willing to welcome asylum seekers “with open arms,” but it needs more funds to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if it’s only 10 more people coming in, that’s 10 people too many without additional funding because we already have so many people living on our streets needing services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936463\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936463\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A migrant mother with her baby in her arms and her daughter by her side sit among other asylum seekers in a crowded room with iron bars on windows.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants line up to get health services near the free non-profit clinic in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos A. 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"content": "\u003cp>In less than two weeks, job seekers in California will finally know how much a job pays when they apply for it — if companies don’t figure out a way around a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1162\">new law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting on Jan. 1, employers with at least 15 workers will have to include pay ranges in job postings. Employees will also be able to ask for the pay range for their own position, and larger companies will have to provide more detailed pay data to California’s Civil Rights Department than was previously required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California isn’t the first state to force businesses to put their cards on the table. \u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-085\">Colorado\u003c/a> took that step in 2019, and a similar requirement went into effect in \u003ca href=\"https://aboutblaw.com/5x5\">New York City\u003c/a> in November. \u003ca href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/business/next-year-wa-employers-will-have-to-be-upfront-about-salaries/\">Washington state\u003c/a> has its own version that will also kick in on Jan. 1, and a similar statewide \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S9427\">bill in New York\u003c/a> was just \u003ca href=\"https://gothamist.com/news/nycs-pay-transparency-law-is-about-to-go-statewide\">signed by the governor\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lisa Wallace, co-founder, Assemble\"]‘You better make sure that you have a really strong answer for why an employee is paid less.’[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2022/05/pay-transparency/\">goal of the California law\u003c/a> is to reduce \u003ca href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/9770273/?utm_source=embed&utm_campaign=visualisation/9770273\">gender and racial pay gaps\u003c/a>. But New York City’s measure had a bumpy start, with some employers posting \u003ca href=\"https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-companies-quickly-find-ways-around-new-pay-transparency-legislation\">unhelpfully wide ranges\u003c/a> the first day the law was in place. When Colorado rolled out its law at the beginning of 2021, some companies posted remote jobs that they said could be done from anywhere in the U.S. — except Colorado — dodging the requirement. That wasn’t widespread; about \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/remote-jobs-colorado-equal-pay/619581/\">1% of remote job listings included a Colorado caveat\u003c/a>, according to reporting in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since California has nearly seven times as many people as Colorado, according to U.S. Census data, excluding Californians in a remote job listing would come at a higher cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s just such a huge economic center,” said Lisa Wallace, co-founder of Assemble, a compensation management platform. “There just aren’t that many industries that are not going to be touched by this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the pay range?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Here’s what California job seekers can expect to see more frequently come January: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=irrigation+plumber+job+UC+berkeley&sxsrf=ALiCzsZqeBBWQWMVoSMwIQh5ydtPamNQQw:1671545695816&ei=X8OhY8XCMdHJ9AOErqPwBw&uact=5&oq=irrigation+plumber+job+UC+berkeley&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIFCCEQqwI6CggAEEcQ1gQQsAM6BwgjELACECc6CAghEMMEEKABOgoIIRDDBBAKEKABSgQIQRgASgQIRhgAUOQDWKMOYIURaAFwAXgAgAFViAGZBJIBATeYAQCgAQHIAQjAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz-serp&ibp=htl;jobs&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijoKb_sIj8AhVoMDQIHQvQB4YQkd0GegQIHBAB#fpstate=tldetail&htivrt=jobs&htiq=irrigation+plumber+job+UC+berkeley&htidocid=o5HSq0kwI28AAAAAAAAAAA%3D%3D\">$44 an hour\u003c/a> to be a plumber in Berkeley; \u003ca href=\"https://www.uclahealthcareers.org/job/16390118/assistant-teacher-los-angeles-ca/?utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic\">$18.38\u003c/a>–\u003ca href=\"https://www.uclahealthcareers.org/job/16390118/assistant-teacher-los-angeles-ca/?utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic\">$28.51\u003c/a> an hour for an assistant teacher job in Los Angeles; \u003ca href=\"https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucdavis/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&JobOpeningId=43733&PostingSeq=1&SiteId=7&languageCd=ENG&FOCUS=Applicant\">$74,600–$141,000\u003c/a> per year for a future compensation analyst in Davis. If companies aren’t adding ranges, people can sue or file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner’s Office, which can issue a penalty of $100 to $10,000 per violation. Companies that don’t have pay ranges in job postings won’t get penalized for their first violation, so long as they add the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to preparing to post pay ranges in job listings, companies that don’t already have pay bands for current employees should put them in place, and they should make sure that there aren’t pay disparities based on race, sex, or other protected classes between employees doing substantially similar work, said Jacklin Rad, a lawyer who advises employers on California workplace laws at Jackson Lewis, a law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses are about to have their pay scrutinized by job candidates and employees, said Wallace, the compensation platform company co-founder. “You better make sure that you have a really strong answer for why an employee is paid less,” than the posted range for a similar-looking job, she said. The new California law is uncovering that a lot of organizations have been operating without pay bands, Wallace said, adding that many of the company’s earliest customers were tech and biotech businesses, but that since the bill was signed into law she’s seen increased interest from other sectors, including manufacturing and utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One question that arose immediately when New York City’s law went into effect was about how wide the pay range can be without violating the law. Some \u003ca href=\"https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-companies-quickly-find-ways-around-new-pay-transparency-legislation\">postings included ranges\u003c/a> where the high end was about $100,000 more than the low end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11936409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2020-Sex-Race-Ethnicty-by-Pay-band-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Graphs showing sex, race and ethnicity of workforce in California.\" width=\"2200\" height=\"1182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2020-Sex-Race-Ethnicty-by-Pay-band-copy.jpg 2200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2020-Sex-Race-Ethnicty-by-Pay-band-copy-800x430.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2020-Sex-Race-Ethnicty-by-Pay-band-copy-1020x548.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2020-Sex-Race-Ethnicty-by-Pay-band-copy-160x86.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2020-Sex-Race-Ethnicty-by-Pay-band-copy-1536x825.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2020-Sex-Race-Ethnicty-by-Pay-band-copy-2048x1100.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2020-Sex-Race-Ethnicty-by-Pay-band-copy-1920x1032.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s law explains the required pay-scale as “the salary or hourly wage range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for the position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really ambiguous,” said Rad, the lawyer. “A lot of attorneys that work in this sphere ask themselves: ‘You know, if the range is too wide, then does that defeat the purpose of pay transparency?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters reached out to the Labor Commissioner’s office, which is charged with enforcing the pay-scale component of the law. The office didn’t make anyone available to be interviewed, and did not respond to a detailed list of questions about how the law will be interpreted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California government agencies include pay scales in job postings, and some of the ranges are large. The Civil Rights Department, for example, recently had a posting for an “Assistant Deputy Director, Workforce Data Officer” with a listed pay range of $7,976–$19,321 per month, which translates to about $96,000–$232,000 per year. Another posting, for a deputy chief counsel at the Civil Rights Department had a similar range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pay ranges are set by the state’s human resources agency, CalHR, and are influenced by bargaining with unions, said Adam Romero, deputy director of executive programs at California’s Civil Rights Department. Those two positions are “very senior,” and most roles don’t have pay ranges that wide, Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reporting pay data\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The second major component of the new law is that businesses with 100 or more employees will have to start reporting more detailed data on what they pay workers to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It builds on a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB973\">2020 law that required companies to submit reports to the state’s Civil Rights Department\u003c/a> breaking down how many employees they have in each job category and pay band by sex, race, and ethnicity. The goal was to enable state agencies to more identify wage disparities more efficiently, and to prompt companies to assess their own pay.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jacklin Rad, attorney, Jackson Lewis PC\"]‘A lot of attorneys that work in this sphere ask themselves: ‘You know, if the range is too wide, then does that defeat the purpose of pay transparency?’ ‘[/pullquote]The reports are used “in individual investigations of complaints of pay discrimination or other types of complaints of civil rights violations against employers,” said Romero at the Civil Rights Department. The data on its own doesn’t prove there’s been a violation of the law, but it provides context, said Romero. The Civil Rights Department cited the pay data, for example, when it \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/02/TeslaPR2.10.22.pdf\">sued Tesla (PDF)\u003c/a> for race discrimination and harassment in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law taking effect Jan. 1 requires employers to add median and mean hourly rates for each demographic group within each job category and to include pay data for contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really trying to shine more light on this growing shadow workforce of contract workers,” said Mariko Yoshihara, policy director for the California Employment Lawyers Association, which supported the new law. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-workers.html\">Google, for example, has more temps and contractors than full-time employees\u003c/a>, according to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>’ reporting. 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If companies aren’t adding ranges, people can sue or file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner’s Office, which can issue a penalty of $100 to $10,000 per violation. 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