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Interestingly, the results are similar to those from last November’s survey, which was conducted when many statewide COVID-19 restrictions were still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll also finds significant differences across racial and ethnic groups, with Latinos and African Americans most likely to report any of these issue. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"has-drop-cap\">Officially, \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/newsroom/unemployment-september-2021.htm\">California has 1.4 million unemployed residents\u003c/a>, but a new study that takes into account people who can’t find jobs that pay above poverty level says the number of “functionally unemployed” is three times higher, at 4.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis by the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, an organization focused on studying the economic well-being of middle- and lower-income Americans, found that 25.7% of California workers are functionally unemployed, meaning they are seeking, but unable to find, full-time employment paying above the poverty level. 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It’s not enough to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Gonzalez likes the paint company, which pays him $21 an hour, rent takes half his wages and the rest doesn’t stave off pangs of hunger at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez sometimes lines up at San Mateo County charity Samaritan House for fish, fresh produce and dried goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you are a partial employee,” he said, “you can’t survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s unemployment rate hit a high of 16.3% in May 2020 and the state has recovered\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/newsroom/unemployment-september-2021.htm\"> 63.5% of jobs lost due to the pandemic.\u003c/a> But Gonzalez’s struggle to find enough work\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>is not reflected by California’s standard employment measurements, making him functionally unemployed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is worth examining how we capture and report these figures,” said Alissa Anderson, senior policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center, “because they affect how policy choices are made and support is provided for families and households.” [aside postID=\"news_11888843\" label=\"Resources for unemployment\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LISEP researchers also found that women had a functional unemployment rate nearly 9% higher than men in September 2021. 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Suddenly, she was staring at her own financial abyss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic devastated lower-income families, middle-class households were not immune. Manio was one of many who turned to the government and friends and family for assistance for the first time in their lives, seeking help wherever she could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11888843\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/EDD-UNEMPLOYMENT-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003ca href=\"https://samaritanhousesanmateo.org/\">Samaritan House, a San Mateo charity offering food, rental assistance and counseling services\u003c/a>, saw food distribution lines double, while rental assistance applications jumped fivefold. Manio was among those who got rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were an awful lot of middle-class and lower middle-class folks,” said Bart Charlow, CEO of Samaritan House. Some “apologized as if it was their fault,” he said. Others avoided eye contact. More than a few broke into tears. Many experienced “complete bewilderment and loss of pride in suddenly not being able to be independent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic caps 40 years of a middle-class squeeze in California, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/incoming-inequality-and-economic-opportunity-in-california-december-2020.pdf\">the income of the state’s top earners has far outpaced that of the middle class\u003c/a>, according to a 2020 report from the Public Policy Institute of California. 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Manio knew she could move in with her mother in the Central Valley in an emergency. But it was a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11847203\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920_GettyImages-1227684396-copy-1020x574.jpg\"]Manio, a first-generation Filipina who had spent the last two years of high school in Los Angeles public housing, had managed a nonprofit assisting marginalized youth in San Francisco, patented environmentally friendly food packaging and had been making $90,000 in hospital finance before 2019. She moved into commercial real estate hoping to earn more and help pay for her son’s eventual college tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been independent and self-sufficient,” she said, and going to friends with open hands “was a very hard pill to swallow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few thousand dollars in loans from friends helped her pay the rent, her car loan and professional expenses. But with nearly $6,000 a month in expenses, Manio felt like Alice in Wonderland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m falling deep into this financial hole,” she said. “I have no idea how I’m going to get back, and I have no idea where this is going to lead me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2020, she turned to food stamps, which provided about $200 a month, then unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manio, who now had drawn over $10,000 in loans from friends, began to dip into a college fund that her father had left for her son. Expecting the pandemic to subside, Manio strained her credit cards to attend extra real estate certifications, trainings and pay her annual licensing fees. But the lockdowns dragged on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this year, she applied to Cornell University’s commercial real estate certification program in commercial real estate development. She paid half-off tuition — $6,000 that she put on her credit card in installments — and emptied her child’s college fund. Manio told her son it would help them bounce back, promising to put all of it back and then some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By January, the loans from one friend had reached $30,000, and her credit cards were stuffed with $40,000 in additional debt. Manio was now paying only 25% rent in keeping with the state’s eviction moratorium, but the back rent was growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manio put on a stoic face in public meetings in March and April while other board members spoke and shed tears over lost family members due to COVID-19. She couldn’t bring herself to air her problems publicly: What if voters thought she was unable to run a district, city or county, she thought, if she couldn’t get her finances in order?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a lot of saving face,” she said, and “having to hide the real me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bart Charlow, CEO of Samaritan House\"]‘That’s part of the great American dream and the great American culture … the idea that we’re fiercely independent.’[/pullquote]At night, when the public comments were over, her homework from Cornell completed, her son fed and the house cleaned, she would lie in bed with her own thoughts and shed tears. The breakdowns spilled into the mornings when she’d stare at herself in the mirror. “I didn’t recognize myself anymore,” she said. Manio’s hair was thinned by stress, with clumps falling out in the shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With $70,000 in debt, she questioned her capabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of the great American dream and the great American culture,” Charlow said, “the idea that we’re fiercely independent, we take care of ourselves. In point of fact, throughout our history, it’s the community that’s often needed to take care of many of its members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the June day she was served the eviction notice, Manio’s mother had come to help celebrate Jake’s graduation with balloons, flowers and gifts. But the stress of eviction was too much. Manio yelled and didn’t speak to anyone that evening. She later learned her son cried that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11889738\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/pexels-andrew-neel-4134784-1020x679.jpg\"]The following week, Manio’s mother paid the deposit and co-signed on a new apartment for Manio and Jake. 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Breed said she hopes their return, along with the city’s high vaccination rate and relaxed mask mandate, will encourage the private sector to bring their employees back as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to work with our labor partners to get the last remaining people vaccinated, but we are confident a fully vaccinated workforce is in the best interest of the public, our workers, and the recovery of our City,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the deadline, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackemployeesalliance.com/\">Black Employees Alliance and Coalition Against Anti-Blackness\u003c/a> on Monday admonished the city’s leadership for denying accommodations to more than 20 of its members who it said should have qualified for medical or religious exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we support Mayor Breed’s leadership, we believe her touting of the City’s 97% vaccination rate as a success (while many in her workforce are losing their livelihoods due to the City’s hardlined position requiring vaccinations) – is soulless, callous, and unscrupulous,” the group said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said the vaccine mandate has had a “disproportionate impact on the City and County’s Black employees” and called the city’s handling of the situation “egregious, irresponsible, and tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are approving [remote] work for certain people and terminating positions for others, we want to know why,” said Dante King, one of the group’s co-founders. He said his group intends to submit a public records request to see who has been granted or denied exemptions and if there are obvious racial disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an ethics issue. When you look at Contra Costa County approving [almost all] exemptions requests and San Francisco has approved none for our members,” King added. “The leadership is being immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The deadline comes four months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/world/san-francisco-vaccine-mandate.html\">San Francisco became one of the first major cities in the country to announce a vaccine mandate for all city workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the employee vaccination rate has jumped by 30%, Mayor London Breed said in a statement on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mandate is all about protecting the health of the public and of our workforce, and it is working,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fully vaccinated city-employed office workers are now required to return to the office for at least two days a week. Breed said she hopes their return, along with the city’s high vaccination rate and relaxed mask mandate, will encourage the private sector to bring their employees back as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to work with our labor partners to get the last remaining people vaccinated, but we are confident a fully vaccinated workforce is in the best interest of the public, our workers, and the recovery of our City,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the deadline, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackemployeesalliance.com/\">Black Employees Alliance and Coalition Against Anti-Blackness\u003c/a> on Monday admonished the city’s leadership for denying accommodations to more than 20 of its members who it said should have qualified for medical or religious exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we support Mayor Breed’s leadership, we believe her touting of the City’s 97% vaccination rate as a success (while many in her workforce are losing their livelihoods due to the City’s hardlined position requiring vaccinations) – is soulless, callous, and unscrupulous,” the group said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said the vaccine mandate has had a “disproportionate impact on the City and County’s Black employees” and called the city’s handling of the situation “egregious, irresponsible, and tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are approving [remote] work for certain people and terminating positions for others, we want to know why,” said Dante King, one of the group’s co-founders. He said his group intends to submit a public records request to see who has been granted or denied exemptions and if there are obvious racial disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an ethics issue. When you look at Contra Costa County approving [almost all] exemptions requests and San Francisco has approved none for our members,” King added. “The leadership is being immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Climate demonstrators gathered outside the San Francisco headquarters of investment management company BlackRock on Friday, as part of a global day of action demanding financial institutions “\u003ca href=\"https://bankonourfuture.org/defund-climate-chaos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defund climate chaos\u003c/a>” — end funding of corporations that perpetuate climate destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day of action, which took place in at least 100 cities around the world, was timed ahead of \u003ca href=\"https://unfccc.int/conference/glasgow-climate-change-conference-october-november-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COP26\u003c/a>, the United Nations climate conference beginning in Glasgow on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11894455\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A drawn picture of a fist with a carrot can be seen, and several people paint and do art on the street \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Urban Tilth paint a mural on the 400 block of Howard Street in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 2021, part of a climate strike in advance of the Glasgow climate summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://bankonourfuture.org/defund-climate-chaos/home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bank on Our Future\u003c/a> campaign says that stopping the funding of asset managers like BlackRock would help stop the flow of funding for oil and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 200 kids left school in a climate strike, joined by survivors of wildfires across the state and Indigenous leaders. Eight demonstrators blocked the entrances to BlackRock’s building throughout the day, and two were arrested after hanging a banner saying, “Investments set the world on fire from CA to Amazon #DefundClimateChaos” from the nearby Salesforce Transit Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a march and rally, participants painted a block-long street mural with paint made from California wildfire ash. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth Vs. Apocalypse\u003c/a>, a group of young climate justice activists who focus on youth of color and working class youth, organized the march.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hits home for us because we’re from Richmond,” said Marco Lemus, a 26-year-old community organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://urbantilth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Tilth\u003c/a>. “We have Chevron, which is a huge corporation, polluting our air constantly and flaring — stuff that we deal with on a daily basis.” Lemus was headed to Glasgow to participate in direct action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894456 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of many different people — mostly young people of color — walk with signs and drums: 'divest from death' and 'people vs fossil fuels.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people, primarily youth, march through downtown San Francisco in a youth-led protest against fossil fuels on Oct. 29, 2021, as part of a global day of climate action in advance of COP26, the Glasgow climate summit.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others, like Solwazi Allah, a 24-year-old Richmond resident who also works for Urban Tilth, called out BlackRock for investing in fossil fuel companies. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Solwazi Allah, Richmond resident who works for Urban Tilth\"]‘The fossil fuel industry is enemy No. 1 for us personally.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fossil fuel industry is enemy No. 1 for us personally,” Allah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BlackRock representatives did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many young people decided to take the day to strike, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/\">organizers included a school excusal notice on their website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asthma is the most common reason for school absences, and climate change is linked to several well-known asthma triggers, including extreme heat, air pollution, allergies, and mold,” the note reads. “Students around the world are asserting their right to inherit a livable planet, and we stand with them in this fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen-year-old Lizbeth Ibarra, a high school student and organizer with Youth vs. Apocalypse, said, “Investments in the fossil fuel industry are also investments in the destruction of my future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loryan Boyette Tindall, a fifth grader at Manzanita SEED Elementary School in Oakland, said he has asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t help when there are smoky days,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyette Tindall came with parent chaperones and classmates to send the message that young people are invested in keeping fossil fuels in the ground. He said he plans to be a climate activist for the rest of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894466\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11894466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in a purple skirt paints with green on a San Francisco street as part of a climate rally\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Hoover paints a mural that says ‘Water Is Life,’ along with the group Idle No More SF Bay, on the 400 block of Howard Street in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 2021, part of a climate strike in advance of the Glasgow climate summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many demonstrators took aim at BlackRock, where CEO Larry Fink helms \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/12/top-three-asset-managers-fossil-fuel-investments\">one of the world’s largest fossil fuel investment portfolios, worth $87 billion\u003c/a>. Fink pushed BlackRock to vote against shareholder resolutions that were pro-climate, according to The Guardian. Other reports say the company has\u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-larry-fink-climate-letter-greenwashing-reclaim-finance-urgewald-070023916.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> $85 billion invested in coal\u003c/a>. As of 2019, BlackRock also was one of the the largest investors in PG&E.[aside tag=\"climate-change\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By now, it should be no surprise to Larry Fink that we are at the doorsteps of BlackRock here in San Francisco,” said Isabella Zizi of \u003ca href=\"http://www.idlenomoresfbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Idle No More SF Bay\u003c/a>, in a press release ahead of the event. “Yet again, we continue to demand he take initiative on climate change and make immediate and needed decisions that are going to ensure a clean and safe future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fink has been called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/business/dealbook/blackrock-shareholder-voting-power.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the world’s most powerful investor\u003c/a> as well as one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America’s top climate villains\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Survivors of California’s many wildfires made their voices heard at the protest. “How many more disasters must we witness, must our kids witness?” asked Wendy McCall, who said she lost her home in the 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894464\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894464 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman stands back to camera with a \"youth vs apocalypse\" sign on her back and holding a bullhorn.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people, primarily youth, march through downtown San Francisco in a youth-led protest against fossil fuels on Oct. 29, 2021, as a part of a global day of climate action in advance of COP26, the Glasgow climate summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Allen Myers, who was born and raised in Paradise and who founded an organization called \u003ca href=\"https://www.regeneratingparadise.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regenerating Paradise\u003c/a> in the aftermath of the Camp Fire, also turned out in support. He previously delivered ashes from his hometown to Senator Dianne Feinstein and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here today to call upon corporations like BlackRock and elected leaders to stop extracting fossil fuels,” Myers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah Wilson-James, who lost her family home in the CZU Complex Fire of August 2020, echoed other fire survivors and emphasized the importance of taking action immediately. “Unless BlackRock takes meaningful action now to drive down emissions, more towns will burn, and our pain and dispossession will be the price paid for their profits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hits home for us because we’re from Richmond,” said Marco Lemus, a 26-year-old community organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://urbantilth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Tilth\u003c/a>. “We have Chevron, which is a huge corporation, polluting our air constantly and flaring — stuff that we deal with on a daily basis.” Lemus was headed to Glasgow to participate in direct action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894456 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of many different people — mostly young people of color — walk with signs and drums: 'divest from death' and 'people vs fossil fuels.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52232_009_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people, primarily youth, march through downtown San Francisco in a youth-led protest against fossil fuels on Oct. 29, 2021, as part of a global day of climate action in advance of COP26, the Glasgow climate summit.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others, like Solwazi Allah, a 24-year-old Richmond resident who also works for Urban Tilth, called out BlackRock for investing in fossil fuel companies. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888843/claiming-unemployment-in-california-your-options-now-that-pandemic-federal-benefits-have-ended\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ir directamente a: \u003ca href=\"#beneficios\">\u003cstrong>Dónde encontrar ayuda si se terminaron sus beneficios federales por la pandemia\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A principios de septiembre, alrededor de 2.2 millones de \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/news-21-53.pdf\">californianos perdieron los beneficios federales establecidos para ayudarles a superar la pandemia\u003c/a>(disponible sólo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888075/empty-savings-damaged-health-for-pandemic-unemployed-recovery-can-be-a-long-road\">mucha gente todavía no ha encontrado trabajo\u003c/a>. Algunos también se encuentran en circunstancias que no les permiten ingresar de nuevo al mercado laboral,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887707/chinatowns-communal-housing-residents-organize-to-keep-their-students-at-home\"> como no querer enviar de nuevo a la escuela a sus hijos que aún no han recibido la vacuna contra COVID-19\u003c/a> o temor de contraer el virus en su lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si está leyendo esto porque sus beneficios federales por la pandemia vencieron a principios de septiembre, debemos decirle por adelantado: no hay muchas opciones disponibles para usted en este momento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero si usted trabajó en algún momento durante la pandemia, existen algunas cosas que puede hacer para maximizar los beneficios que puede reclamar. No menos importante es que algunos californianos todavía califican al desempleo regular y deben seguir certificándose para los beneficios, según el Departamento de Desarrollo del Empleo (EDD por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y si aún no lo ha hecho, existe una serie de programas estatales a los que usted puede tener derecho para ayudarle a cubrir ciertas carencias en este momento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siga leyendo para conocer nuestra guía que le ayudará a averiguar cuáles caminos tiene abiertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Cuáles beneficios de desempleo han expirado realmente?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El 4 de septiembre terminaron las siguientes prestaciones federales de desempleo establecidas por la Ley CARES:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/pandemic-unemployment-assistance-espanol.htm\">Asistencia de Desempleo por la Pandemia\u003c/a> (PUA por sus siglas en inglés): El programa federal que apoyaba a los propietarios de negocios, contratistas independientes y trabajadores por cuenta propia. (Si sólo recibió un formulario de impuestos 1099, es probable que este fuera el programa en el que estaba).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/cares-act-espanol.htm#collapseRunout\">Compensación por Desempleo de Emergencia por la Pandemia\u003c/a> (PEUC por sus siglas en inglés): El programa federal para las personas que estaban en el desempleo regular, pero agotaron esos fondos.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/cares-act-espanol.htm#collapseAboutPAC\">Compensación Adicional por la Pandemia\u003c/a> (PAC por sus siglas en inglés) (también conocida como Subsidio Federal de Desempleo por la Pandemia, o FPUC por sus siglas en inglés): El programa que pagó $300 en compensación federal por desempleo además del monto del beneficio semanal actual de un reclamante para las semanas de desempleo entre el 27 de diciembre de 2020 y el 4 de septiembre de 2021.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/cares-act-espanol.htm#collapseMEUC\">Compensación por Desempleo para las Personas con Ingresos Mixtos\u003c/a> (MEUC por sus siglas en inglés): El programa que pagaba $100 semanales adicionales en prestaciones de desempleo complementarias a los solicitantes que recibían beneficios regulares de desempleo o de prórroga y obtenían ingresos por cuenta propia en el año anterior a su solicitud.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>También estaba disponible la \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/fed-ed-espanol.htm\">Extensión Federal-Estatal\u003c/a> (FED-ED por sus siglas en inglés), el programa federal para las personas que habían agotado tanto el seguro de desempleo ordinario, como los fondos del PEUC. Algunas personas tenían semanas restantes de elegibilidad FED-ED, pero estos pagos también expiraron el 11 de septiembre.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Por qué se crearon estos beneficios federales y a quiénes no están incluidos\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Estas prestaciones por el desempleo provocado por la pandemia, los cuales ya han expirado, se crearon como pagos temporales de emergencia y prórrogas, y algunas de ellas estaban destinadas a cubrir las brechas de las personas que no cumplen los requisitos para el desempleo ordinario, como los trabajadores autónomos e independientes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En el período previo a su expiración, algunos activistas laborales señalaron que la falta de redes de apoyo para trabajadores sin empleo recalca las evidentes grietas en el sistema que todavía necesitan ser llenadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘¿Por qué está bien que esa gente quede excluida del programa cuando no es una pandemia?’ es una pregunta que debemos hacernos”, dijo Rebecca Dixon, directora ejecutiva del\u003ca href=\"https://www.nelp.org/\"> Proyecto Nacional de Derecho Laboral\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y si podemos averiguar cómo hacer que funcione durante una pandemia para protegerlos, tenemos que protegerlos todo el tiempo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Cuento con beneficios de desempleo regular. ¿En qué situación me encuentro?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Según un comunicado del EDD de principios de septiembre, la agencia \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/news-21-53.pdf\">calcula que alrededor de 500 mil californianos siguen recibiendo el seguro de desempleo estatal\u003c/a>, sólo que sin el suplemento federal de $300 dólares del PAC que solían recibir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El EDD utiliza lo que ellos llaman un “período base” para calcular sus beneficios y si usted tiene derecho a los beneficios en general.\u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/pdf_pub_ctr/de8714ab.pdf\"> Consulte los requisitos de ingresos para establecer una reclamación válida\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' ]‘Las personas que presentaron solicitudes al principio de la pandemia, pero que no han vuelto a trabajar en absoluto, no van a poder presentar una nueva solicitud de desempleo ordinario.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una nota importante es que las personas que presentaron solicitudes al principio de la pandemia pero que no han vuelto a trabajar en absoluto no van a poder presentar una nueva solicitud de desempleo regular, dice Daniela Urban, directora ejecutiva del\u003ca href=\"https://www.rightscenter.org/\"> Centro para los Derechos de los Trabajadores en Sacramento\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esto se debe a que “no han tenido ningún ingreso nuevo, independientemente de la antigüedad que puedan tener en su período base”, explica ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892660 size-medium\" title=\"Cottonbro/Pexels\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">¿Qué debe hacer si le han dejado de dar el subsidio de desempleo por la pandemia? \u003ccite>(Cottonbro/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Si califico a una nueva solicitud para beneficios de desempleo, ¿qué debo saber?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sea estratégico con el tiempo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si ha ganado lo suficiente desde su última solicitud para tener derecho a una nueva, Urban le recomienda que piense estratégicamente en el momento de presentarla, para maximizar la cantidad y la duración de su nueva ronda de beneficios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Una razón importante para hacerlo? Urban dice que el EDD nunca incluirá el trimestre de ganancias en el que usted presenta su solicitud cuando calcula la cantidad de su solicitud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dado a que muchas personas lograron conseguir trabajo en el verano antes de que la variante delta se afianzó, existe una buena probabilidad de que usted pueda tener ganancias en el tercer trimestre de 2021, que va entre el 1 de julio y el 30 de septiembre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por lo tanto, si presenta la solicitud en octubre, al comienzo del cuarto trimestre, el EDD tendrá en cuenta esos ingresos del tercer trimestre a la hora de calcular sus prestaciones de desempleo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Considere si sus ingresos contarán\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La cantidad que recibe en el desempleo se basa tanto en su trimestre más alto de ganancias, como en todas sus ganancias durante el período base. Así que, como muchos solicitantes no trabajaron durante gran parte de 2020, puede que tengan un trimestre [más alto] de ganancias recientemente, como el trimestre más reciente o el inmediatamente anterior”, dijo Urban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las personas que han vuelto a trabajar recientemente, pero que han sido despedidas de nuevo, también deben tener en cuenta este hecho a la hora de presentar la solicitud, dice Urban. Esto se debe a que, si uno acaba de perder un nuevo empleo, sus ingresos de ese trimestre no cuentan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Así que cuando estamos al final de un trimestre, especialmente como ahora, si perdió su empleo recientemente y la mayor parte de su nuevo trabajo fue sólo en ese trimestre, sólo van a utilizar las ganancias del trimestre anterior a ese y tal vez incluso dos trimestres antes de eso, dependiendo de lo que sus otras ganancias fueron, con el fin de calcular sus ganancias del período base”, dijo Urban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recuerde que ya no hay prórrogas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esperar a presentar la solicitud tiene otras ventajas, además de hacer más probable que se tengan en cuenta los ingresos más elevados de la gente, “porque ahora que no hay prórrogas, lo máximo que se puede obtener son las 26 semanas dentro de un periodo de 52 semanas”, subraya Urban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Así que, al retrasar el inicio de eso, se retrasa el periodo de tiempo en el que se empiezan a recibir las prestaciones. Pero eso amplía el periodo de tiempo en el que puede cobrar esas prestaciones si sigue en el paro”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En resumen: cuando decida presentar la solicitud, considere cómo puede equilibrar la inclusión de los periodos en los que ha ganado más, y tenga en cuenta que cuanto más espere para presentarla, más meses (y, con suerte, más cerca estemos de una recuperación económica más completa) durarán sus prestaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"beneficios\">\u003c/a>Dónde encontrar ayuda si ha perdido sus beneficios de desempleo por la pandemia\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El EDD ha compartido los siguientes servicios para las personas que necesitan apoyo adicional durante esta transición.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenga en cuenta: Algunas personas desempleadas han reportado dificultades para asegurar los beneficios públicos si tenían problemas de robo de identidad relacionados con el desempleo. Estar desempleado también puede interferir con la capacidad de presentar declaraciones de impuestos, lo que afectará el acceso al pago del estímulo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.getcalfresh.org/?new_locale=es\">\u003cb>CalFresh\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El programa de cupones de alimentos de California (SNAP por sus siglas en inglés) ofrece más de $200 dólares al mes en ayuda alimentaria.\u003ca href=\"https://www.getcalfresh.org/?new_locale=es\"> Inscríbase en CalFresh en línea\u003c/a> o llame al (877) 847-3663.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/\">\u003cb>Housing Is Key\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Información y apoyo sobre el alquiler y los servicios públicos del Estado. Inscríbase a través de \u003ci>Housing Is Key\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/\">en línea\u003c/a> o llame al (833) 430-2122.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/espanol/\">\u003cb>Covered California o Medi-Cal\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El EDD señala que “los californianos que recibieron seguro de desempleo en 2021 pueden ser elegibles para la mejor cobertura de \u003ci>Covered California\u003c/i> por 1 dólar al mes. Las personas que ya están inscritas en Medi-Cal o en un plan de salud de \u003ci>Covered California,\u003c/i> deben reportar cualquier pérdida de beneficios de desempleo a la agencia porque esto reducirá los costos de la cobertura médica.” Vea más sobre \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/espanol/\">Covered California o Medi-Cal en línea\u003c/a> o llame al (800) 300-1506.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://benefitscal.com/\">\u003cb>BenefitsCal\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El programa de \u003ci>BenefitsCal\u003c/i> ofrece una forma de solicitar CalFresh, CalWORKs, Medi-Cal, CMSP (Programa de Servicios Médicos del Condado), CalFresh para catástrofes o GA/GR (Asistencia General o Ayuda General). Este sitio sustituye a C4Yourself, YourBenefitsNow y MyBenefits CalWIN.\u003ca href=\"https://benefitscal.com/\"> Llene la solicitud a través de \u003ci>BenefitsCal\u003c/i> en línea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/newsroom/golden-state-stimulus/index.html\">\u003cb>Estímulo del Estado Dorado\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los declarantes de impuestos elegibles pueden\u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/newsroom/golden-state-stimulus/index.html\"> solicitar el Estímulo del Estado Dorado\u003c/a>.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862122/how-to-get-your-california-stimulus-check-and-other-tax-credits-youre-entitled-to\"> Lea más en KQED sobre el Estímulo del Estado Dorado\u003c/a> (solo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/soytapatia\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista, \u003ca>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y si aún no lo ha hecho, existe una serie de programas estatales a los que usted puede tener derecho para ayudarle a cubrir ciertas carencias en este momento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siga leyendo para conocer nuestra guía que le ayudará a averiguar cuáles caminos tiene abiertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Cuáles beneficios de desempleo han expirado realmente?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El 4 de septiembre terminaron las siguientes prestaciones federales de desempleo establecidas por la Ley CARES:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/pandemic-unemployment-assistance-espanol.htm\">Asistencia de Desempleo por la Pandemia\u003c/a> (PUA por sus siglas en inglés): El programa federal que apoyaba a los propietarios de negocios, contratistas independientes y trabajadores por cuenta propia. (Si sólo recibió un formulario de impuestos 1099, es probable que este fuera el programa en el que estaba).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/cares-act-espanol.htm#collapseRunout\">Compensación por Desempleo de Emergencia por la Pandemia\u003c/a> (PEUC por sus siglas en inglés): El programa federal para las personas que estaban en el desempleo regular, pero agotaron esos fondos.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/cares-act-espanol.htm#collapseAboutPAC\">Compensación Adicional por la Pandemia\u003c/a> (PAC por sus siglas en inglés) (también conocida como Subsidio Federal de Desempleo por la Pandemia, o FPUC por sus siglas en inglés): El programa que pagó $300 en compensación federal por desempleo además del monto del beneficio semanal actual de un reclamante para las semanas de desempleo entre el 27 de diciembre de 2020 y el 4 de septiembre de 2021.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/cares-act-espanol.htm#collapseMEUC\">Compensación por Desempleo para las Personas con Ingresos Mixtos\u003c/a> (MEUC por sus siglas en inglés): El programa que pagaba $100 semanales adicionales en prestaciones de desempleo complementarias a los solicitantes que recibían beneficios regulares de desempleo o de prórroga y obtenían ingresos por cuenta propia en el año anterior a su solicitud.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>También estaba disponible la \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/fed-ed-espanol.htm\">Extensión Federal-Estatal\u003c/a> (FED-ED por sus siglas en inglés), el programa federal para las personas que habían agotado tanto el seguro de desempleo ordinario, como los fondos del PEUC. Algunas personas tenían semanas restantes de elegibilidad FED-ED, pero estos pagos también expiraron el 11 de septiembre.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Por qué se crearon estos beneficios federales y a quiénes no están incluidos\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Estas prestaciones por el desempleo provocado por la pandemia, los cuales ya han expirado, se crearon como pagos temporales de emergencia y prórrogas, y algunas de ellas estaban destinadas a cubrir las brechas de las personas que no cumplen los requisitos para el desempleo ordinario, como los trabajadores autónomos e independientes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En el período previo a su expiración, algunos activistas laborales señalaron que la falta de redes de apoyo para trabajadores sin empleo recalca las evidentes grietas en el sistema que todavía necesitan ser llenadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘¿Por qué está bien que esa gente quede excluida del programa cuando no es una pandemia?’ es una pregunta que debemos hacernos”, dijo Rebecca Dixon, directora ejecutiva del\u003ca href=\"https://www.nelp.org/\"> Proyecto Nacional de Derecho Laboral\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y si podemos averiguar cómo hacer que funcione durante una pandemia para protegerlos, tenemos que protegerlos todo el tiempo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Cuento con beneficios de desempleo regular. ¿En qué situación me encuentro?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Según un comunicado del EDD de principios de septiembre, la agencia \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/news-21-53.pdf\">calcula que alrededor de 500 mil californianos siguen recibiendo el seguro de desempleo estatal\u003c/a>, sólo que sin el suplemento federal de $300 dólares del PAC que solían recibir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El EDD utiliza lo que ellos llaman un “período base” para calcular sus beneficios y si usted tiene derecho a los beneficios en general.\u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/pdf_pub_ctr/de8714ab.pdf\"> Consulte los requisitos de ingresos para establecer una reclamación válida\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una nota importante es que las personas que presentaron solicitudes al principio de la pandemia pero que no han vuelto a trabajar en absoluto no van a poder presentar una nueva solicitud de desempleo regular, dice Daniela Urban, directora ejecutiva del\u003ca href=\"https://www.rightscenter.org/\"> Centro para los Derechos de los Trabajadores en Sacramento\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esto se debe a que “no han tenido ningún ingreso nuevo, independientemente de la antigüedad que puedan tener en su período base”, explica ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892660 size-medium\" title=\"Cottonbro/Pexels\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/HAND-ON-LAPTOP-ON-DESK-NEXT-TO-WINDOW-HERE.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">¿Qué debe hacer si le han dejado de dar el subsidio de desempleo por la pandemia? \u003ccite>(Cottonbro/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Si califico a una nueva solicitud para beneficios de desempleo, ¿qué debo saber?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sea estratégico con el tiempo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si ha ganado lo suficiente desde su última solicitud para tener derecho a una nueva, Urban le recomienda que piense estratégicamente en el momento de presentarla, para maximizar la cantidad y la duración de su nueva ronda de beneficios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Una razón importante para hacerlo? Urban dice que el EDD nunca incluirá el trimestre de ganancias en el que usted presenta su solicitud cuando calcula la cantidad de su solicitud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dado a que muchas personas lograron conseguir trabajo en el verano antes de que la variante delta se afianzó, existe una buena probabilidad de que usted pueda tener ganancias en el tercer trimestre de 2021, que va entre el 1 de julio y el 30 de septiembre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por lo tanto, si presenta la solicitud en octubre, al comienzo del cuarto trimestre, el EDD tendrá en cuenta esos ingresos del tercer trimestre a la hora de calcular sus prestaciones de desempleo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Considere si sus ingresos contarán\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La cantidad que recibe en el desempleo se basa tanto en su trimestre más alto de ganancias, como en todas sus ganancias durante el período base. Así que, como muchos solicitantes no trabajaron durante gran parte de 2020, puede que tengan un trimestre [más alto] de ganancias recientemente, como el trimestre más reciente o el inmediatamente anterior”, dijo Urban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las personas que han vuelto a trabajar recientemente, pero que han sido despedidas de nuevo, también deben tener en cuenta este hecho a la hora de presentar la solicitud, dice Urban. Esto se debe a que, si uno acaba de perder un nuevo empleo, sus ingresos de ese trimestre no cuentan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Así que cuando estamos al final de un trimestre, especialmente como ahora, si perdió su empleo recientemente y la mayor parte de su nuevo trabajo fue sólo en ese trimestre, sólo van a utilizar las ganancias del trimestre anterior a ese y tal vez incluso dos trimestres antes de eso, dependiendo de lo que sus otras ganancias fueron, con el fin de calcular sus ganancias del período base”, dijo Urban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recuerde que ya no hay prórrogas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esperar a presentar la solicitud tiene otras ventajas, además de hacer más probable que se tengan en cuenta los ingresos más elevados de la gente, “porque ahora que no hay prórrogas, lo máximo que se puede obtener son las 26 semanas dentro de un periodo de 52 semanas”, subraya Urban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Así que, al retrasar el inicio de eso, se retrasa el periodo de tiempo en el que se empiezan a recibir las prestaciones. Pero eso amplía el periodo de tiempo en el que puede cobrar esas prestaciones si sigue en el paro”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En resumen: cuando decida presentar la solicitud, considere cómo puede equilibrar la inclusión de los periodos en los que ha ganado más, y tenga en cuenta que cuanto más espere para presentarla, más meses (y, con suerte, más cerca estemos de una recuperación económica más completa) durarán sus prestaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"beneficios\">\u003c/a>Dónde encontrar ayuda si ha perdido sus beneficios de desempleo por la pandemia\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El EDD ha compartido los siguientes servicios para las personas que necesitan apoyo adicional durante esta transición.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenga en cuenta: Algunas personas desempleadas han reportado dificultades para asegurar los beneficios públicos si tenían problemas de robo de identidad relacionados con el desempleo. Estar desempleado también puede interferir con la capacidad de presentar declaraciones de impuestos, lo que afectará el acceso al pago del estímulo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.getcalfresh.org/?new_locale=es\">\u003cb>CalFresh\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El programa de cupones de alimentos de California (SNAP por sus siglas en inglés) ofrece más de $200 dólares al mes en ayuda alimentaria.\u003ca href=\"https://www.getcalfresh.org/?new_locale=es\"> Inscríbase en CalFresh en línea\u003c/a> o llame al (877) 847-3663.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/\">\u003cb>Housing Is Key\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Información y apoyo sobre el alquiler y los servicios públicos del Estado. Inscríbase a través de \u003ci>Housing Is Key\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/\">en línea\u003c/a> o llame al (833) 430-2122.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/espanol/\">\u003cb>Covered California o Medi-Cal\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El EDD señala que “los californianos que recibieron seguro de desempleo en 2021 pueden ser elegibles para la mejor cobertura de \u003ci>Covered California\u003c/i> por 1 dólar al mes. Las personas que ya están inscritas en Medi-Cal o en un plan de salud de \u003ci>Covered California,\u003c/i> deben reportar cualquier pérdida de beneficios de desempleo a la agencia porque esto reducirá los costos de la cobertura médica.” Vea más sobre \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/espanol/\">Covered California o Medi-Cal en línea\u003c/a> o llame al (800) 300-1506.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://benefitscal.com/\">\u003cb>BenefitsCal\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El programa de \u003ci>BenefitsCal\u003c/i> ofrece una forma de solicitar CalFresh, CalWORKs, Medi-Cal, CMSP (Programa de Servicios Médicos del Condado), CalFresh para catástrofes o GA/GR (Asistencia General o Ayuda General). Este sitio sustituye a C4Yourself, YourBenefitsNow y MyBenefits CalWIN.\u003ca href=\"https://benefitscal.com/\"> Llene la solicitud a través de \u003ci>BenefitsCal\u003c/i> en línea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/newsroom/golden-state-stimulus/index.html\">\u003cb>Estímulo del Estado Dorado\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los declarantes de impuestos elegibles pueden\u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/newsroom/golden-state-stimulus/index.html\"> solicitar el Estímulo del Estado Dorado\u003c/a>.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862122/how-to-get-your-california-stimulus-check-and-other-tax-credits-youre-entitled-to\"> Lea más en KQED sobre el Estímulo del Estado Dorado\u003c/a> (solo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "Few Low-Wage Workers Get to Vote on Unions. Can California Change That?",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]hirley Reyes tucked herself next to her 17-year-old son on the couch, peppering him with questions about unions as he googled the cost and benefits of collective bargaining on his phone. Reyes, a Filipina single mother, was inquisitive — and a little anxious. Some labor representatives had already knocked on their cramped in-law unit in Daly City, a majority Asian community south of San Francisco. She wondered if she was risking one of her jobs cleaning hotel rooms simply by talking to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son’s findings began to put her at ease. Unions aim to negotiate higher wages and better benefits for workers. It’s likely the surgery she had six years ago would have cost her less under union-negotiated health insurance. After months of hushed discussions at work, Reyes was handed an official secret ballot. It was a yes or no question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Do you wish to be represented for purposes of collective bargaining by UNITE HERE Local 2? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question a vast number of California workers, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/338/2019/12/CA_Future_of_Work_Commission-onboarding.pdf#page=21\">third of whom make $15 an hour or less\u003c/a>, haven’t had the opportunity to answer. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-unions-explained/\">Union participation is at historic lows\u003c/a> and collective bargaining is less prevalent in retail, restaurants and hotels — segments of the private sector with high concentrations of low-wage jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California wants to change that. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/338/2021/02/ca-future-of-work-report.pdf#page=7\">Future of Work Commission\u003c/a>, convened by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to think of moon shot goals for lifting millions of working Californians out of poverty, proposed getting more workers represented as part of the solution to stemming the state’s staggering wage gap. The commission, which included labor and business leaders, asserted in their final report released earlier this year that while a college degree reduces the chance of a low-wage job by 33%, union membership reduces the chance by 39%. That could go a long way in a state where \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaysca.org/realcost\">1 in 3 households with working adults struggle to afford basic necessities\u003c/a>, while the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/income-inequality-in-california/\">top 2% control 20% of the wealth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/5620f835-9623-4f14-a4dd-ef9d8a3326ff?src=embed\" title=\"Prompt for Union Series\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission urges employers and employees to reach agreement on a new social compact that would foster quality jobs over the next decade. But first that requires building consensus around the basic principle of giving workers a greater voice, whether through unions or worker organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t happened yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Diminished voices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The rapid growth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264246010-en.pdf?expires=1635363163&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=31B89D82960E3F484956293A05BFCB0F\">high-skilled tech jobs and the loss of industrial jobs to global labor markets\u003c/a> have significantly widened the gap between rich and poor people. At the same time, worker organization has diminished: The share of \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94x791km\">California workers in a union has steadily declined from about 40% in the 1950s\u003c/a> to 16% last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union participation is especially low in the private sector, which makes up 84% of the state workforce. Today, 1 in 10 private-sector workers belongs to a union, compared to 1 in 2 in the public sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/653dee32-250b-4402-b4df-cb40c8928e23?src=embed\" title=\"Public vs. private union workers\" width=\"800\" height=\"709\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet these private-sector workers are most in need of a voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous reports have documented the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/07/california-covid-deepening-income-inequality-data/\">pandemic’s disproportionate impact on essential workers\u003c/a>, many of whom are immigrants and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/05/pandemic-immigrant-women-unemployment-job-loss/\">women of color\u003c/a>. Many low-wage workers are employed in the service economy, such as retail, hospitality and tourism. They are the ones making and delivering food, producing and packaging goods, and cleaning and caring for others but unable to keep up with their own bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Reyes, who works at the Marriott Waterfront, voting yes to a union worked out for the better. After the contract was signed Aug. 4, Reyes’s wage will rise from $19.80 to $24.30 over the next year. Her health insurance premium dropped from $250 a month to $35. Dental insurance and the option of a 401(k) or pension plans were added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11894001 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-800x534.jpg\" alt='A multistory beige, windowed building with the one-story, red letters spelling \"Marriott\" toward the top.' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior view of the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront in Burlingame, where Shirley Reyes works as a housekeeper, on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]R[/dropcap]eyes began putting $200 a month toward her son’s college tuition, pulling back on her long work days and, her favorite part, cooking dinner for her son. Though Reyes was laid off during the pandemic, the union contract gave her priority to return. When the company began rehiring, Reyes was among the first back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not scared anymore,” Reyes said. “We have a contract now. We have job security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of MIT researchers surveyed workers nationally in 2017 and found that about \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019793918806250\">half of nonunionized workers would vote to join a union\u003c/a>. That’s up from 32% in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all workers agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Beltran, who was formerly unionized as an usher at the SAP Center in San José and now does freelance photography, isn’t looking for collective bargaining. Dues are high, and she enjoys her freelance schedule unconstricted by a contract. A few unions have been beset by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/article255081222.html\">power struggles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article254976772.html\">leadership scandals\u003c/a> lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Unions] feel more like a corporation,” she said. “I think they are more in it to make money and less interested in workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Unions can reduce inequality — at a cost\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some researchers say the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w24587\">decline in union membership has contributed to at least 10% of the wealth divide\u003c/a>, according to a 2018 study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research. Henry Farber, an economics professor at Princeton University who co-authored the study, said because wealth inequality is linked to stagnating wages that hurt the lowest-paid workers, unions can act as a counterbalance by lifting up the bottom through wages and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union workers in California are more likely to receive health care through their employers and to earn nearly 13% higher wages than nonunionized workers in similar industries, and they are 50% more likely to have an employer-sponsored retirement plan, according to \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2018/Union-Effect-in-California-1.pdf\">a report by the UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>. Those advantages put an estimated $18.5 billion annually into the hands of lower-income Californians, reducing their reliance on public safety nets and helping to stave off poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions, however, come at a cost to businesses, which argue that the loss of profits will lead to fewer jobs, and the rigidity of union contracts will make it hard to adapt to change. Research from the ‘90s found that \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00299.x\">unionization slows the rate at which a company adds new jobs by 4 percentage points a year\u003c/a>. Another study published more recently in The Quarterly Journal of Economics looked at the market value of publicly traded companies before and after they were unionized. It found that \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/127/1/333/1834007?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">a union election victory led to a roughly 10% decrease in the company’s market value\u003c/a>. And, thanks to a tight labor market, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/08/labor-shortage-hiring-incentives-yoga-therapy-401k/\">wages have been increasing for workers\u003c/a> in typically lower-paying leisure and hospitality jobs, despite low union density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11892723,news_11862641,news_11890056\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even a member of the Future of Work commission who signed his name to the report recommending the state “empower worker voice and organization” notes that unions aren’t the only way to quality jobs. Lance Hastings, president and CEO of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, says his organization focuses on workforce development and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the commission’s proposal of increasing union representation to decrease inequality, Hastings says: “Where we can find the balance where that helps in the workforce, we’re all for it.” But, he adds, the conversation about improving workers’ lot can’t begin and end with just paying everyone more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Swaim, president of the right-leaning California Policy Center, takes it one step further. Broadly speaking, he says, a union’s goal is simply to raise wages for its members at whatever cost. And that cost, ultimately, is passed along to all Californians who use the products and services union members make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unionized labor agreements for construction projects, for example, can drive up the cost of housing. In 2016, Los Angeles voters passed a $1.2 billion bond for housing for unhoused residents. The city council required that developers constructing over 65 units must use a mostly unionized workforce. The effect, according to research from RAND, a nonpartisan research organization headquartered in Santa Monica, was that \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1362-1.html\">projects cost an additional $43,000 per unit and disincentivized developers from building projects with more than 65 units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on a simulation, the researchers estimated that 800 more units would have been built were it not for the labor agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>That time labor and gig companies failed to compromise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In many ways, California’s wrangling over the employment status of gig workers has been a proxy battle for unionizing an emerging crop of low-wage jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, as labor groups pushed California to classify freelancers as employees through \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">a bill\u003c/a>, some large unions, including Service Employees International Union and International Brotherhood of Teamsters, took part in private negotiations with the gig companies. In a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Open-Forum-Uber-Lyft-ready-to-do-our-part-for-13969843.php\">ride-share executives wrote they’d be willing to work with labor groups\u003c/a> and lawmakers on providing some benefits to drivers, some information on driver pay and supporting the formation of a nonunion drivers association. Perhaps it would have looked something like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/technology/uber-agrees-to-union-deal-in-new-york.html\">Independent Drivers Guild Uber recognized in New York\u003c/a>, an association without the full powers of a union, which has faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/economy/uber-drivers-union.html\">criticism for being funded directly by Uber\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt to sit down and see whether there was a deal to be worked out, says Rome Aloise, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 853, who took part in the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope, he said, was to secure the right to collectively bargain for gig workers and ultimately improve their livelihoods. But, he said, the labor movement as a whole was adamant that the workers become employees. And the companies “weren’t really able to get themselves to the point” where they would accept unions negotiating on workers' behalf over wages and benefits, said Aloise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That made it impossible for the Teamsters to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here was also pushback from within labor’s ranks. Some argued that unions should not compromise on gig workers gaining employee status, established under \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/S222732.PDF\">a landmark state Supreme Court ruling in 2018\u003c/a>. Negotiations stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2019, the Legislature passed the bill and Newsom signed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, Lyft and other gig companies quickly put a measure on the ballot in 2020 that exempted gig workers from the new law — and prevented drivers from unionizing. After \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">companies spent $205 million\u003c/a>, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">59% of Californians voted to approve\u003c/a> the ballot measure, Proposition 22. Drivers, they decided, would remain freelancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the passage of Proposition 22, Lyft’s president, John Zimmer, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Uber-Lyft-shares-soar-following-passage-of-15701236.php\">The Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-05/prop-22-win-lyft-founder-union-deal-california\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> that the company was still willing to negotiate with labor to increase benefits for drivers while maintaining their independent contractor status. Zimmer also said he was open to sectoral bargaining, when employers and workers negotiate baseline compensation and safety standards that cover most or all of the workers in an industry, not just a single workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft spokesperson CJ Macklin confirmed that remains the company’s position today. “We continue to remain open to working with labor to further strengthen benefits and protections for drivers in ways that also maintain their independence and flexibility,” wrote Macklin in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber’s position for further negotiations is less clear. “Uber remains committed to making independent work better — including supporting policies that provide access to new benefits while protecting the flexibility drivers value most,” wrote Uber spokesperson Austin Heyworth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders remain divided on whether to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still two schools of thought within the labor movement on the path forward for organizing gig workers, says Steve Smith, spokesperson for the California Labor Federation. There’s a camp that says, “No way, no how,” to organizing workers without employee status. Then, says Smith, there are folks who look at the current situation and say: “These folks are without any basic protections. How can we give them not only protections that other workers have in law, but also the right to organize?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 22 guaranteed some driver benefits and compensation, including 30 cents per mile toward expenses, and 120% of minimum wage for their minutes of engaged time driving passengers. That could work out to as little \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/10/gig-worker-pay-prop-22/\">as $5.64 per hour or as much as $27.58 per hour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of gig worker classification isn’t dead yet. In late August, a state Superior Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-20/prop-22-unconstitutional\">judge found that the ballot measure was unconstitutional\u003c/a> and could not be enforced. The judge noted the language aimed at banning drivers from unionizing ought to be considered separate legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition that represents the \u003ca href=\"https://protectdriversandservices.com/prop-22-proponents-statement-in-response-to-seriously-flawed-alameda-superior-court-judge-ruling/\">gig companies pledged to appeal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 22 is overturned in the courts, and gig workers are able to unionize, Smith says that the organizing that has been ongoing since the passage of the proposition will “become more vigorous and urgent.” Whether or not labor would be willing to head back to the negotiating table with gig companies isn’t yet determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s former chief of staff, Ann O’Leary, tweeted that these skirmishes won’t really end until labor and business reach a broader pact for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Ann_OLeary/status/1428926022771118096?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Labor leaders focus on political influence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a sunny Saturday morning just before Newsom’s Sept. 14 recall election, about 100 union workers gathered in an Oakland parking lot, standing in small groups and chatting while a musician strummed a guitar and sang pro-organizing songs. It was one of several door-knocking events unions coordinated to turn out voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the labor movement, we pride ourselves on turning out the labor vote in big numbers,” Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, who had flown in from Washington, D.C., for the event, told the crowd. “We need to get all of the turnout that we can possibly find in these last four days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing both public- and private-sector workers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/10/newsom-recall-big-donors/\">gave more than $25.7 million\u003c/a> to counter the recall effort, more than the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">$20 million\u003c/a> they had put into the Proposition 22 fight. After the election was called in favor of keeping Newsom, the California Labor Federation released a statement saying that workers completed more than 20,000 volunteer shifts to get out the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said labor volunteering sealed Newsom’s win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11894006 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in matching black T-shirts with red writing, look at flyers in their hands as they wait at a screen door on a porch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Sanchez, a cafeteria worker at Verizon and member of UNITE HERE Local 2, canvasses homes in San José in support of Gov. Gavin Newsom before the recall election, on Sept. 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Jesse Bedayn/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]“W[/dropcap]e like to tell our folks that [at] the bargaining table, you inevitably will find an employer on the other side who fears you more if you’ve got political power,” says Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions are a major political force in California, and they dedicate funds and volunteer hours to their political goals. In the 2018 state legislative races, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-election-2020/2020/10/california-lawmakers-big-donors-special-interest-independent-expenditures/\">teachers unions and prison guard unions were among the top donors\u003c/a>. During this legislative cycle, labor counted a number of state wins in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-legislature-bills-passed-2021/\">workplace protections for warehouse workers and better pay for garment workers\u003c/a>. At the federal level, labor has made the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act, a legislative priority to ease unionization drives by increasing penalties on businesses for unfair labor practices and requiring employees covered by union contracts to pay dues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Art Pulaski, California Labor Federation executive secretary-treasurer\"]'We like to tell our folks that [at] the bargaining table, you inevitably will find an employer on the other side who fears you more if you've got political power.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been a debate within labor circles over whether unions are devoting enough resources to recruiting new members and growing the labor movement. This debate over priorities reemerged \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/business/richard-trumka-dead.html\">after the death of former AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka\u003c/a>, who focused more on political advocacy and fostered close relationships with the Obama and Biden administrations. \u003ca href=\"https://splinternews.com/afl-cio-budget-is-a-stark-illustration-of-the-decline-o-1834793722\">Leaked AFL-CIO budget documents show\u003c/a> that under Trumka’s tenure, the nation’s foremost labor federation went from spending nearly 30% of its budget on organizing to 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, there’s a fair amount of variation in how much money unions devote to recruiting new members, says Pulaski. The federation recommends that unions spend at least 20% of their annual budget on recruiting new members, sometimes with high-profile disappointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple years ago, for example, Tesla beat back a unionization drive at its Fremont plant. The electric carmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/30/20891314/elon-musk-tesla-labor-violation-nlrb\">banned workers\u003c/a> from wearing pro-union garb, attempted to shift four pro-union workers to management positions so that they could no longer advocate for a union, and fired a worker. Security guards harassed workers handing out union pamphlets in the parking lot. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998454539941367808\">Elon Musk even sent a tweet\u003c/a>, seeming to threaten that if workers unionized they’d lose their stock options. There was never a union election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some private-sector unions have made gains in recent years. \u003ca href=\"https://unitehere.org/\">UNITE HERE\u003c/a>, a union for service workers, claims to be the \u003ca href=\"https://unitehere.org/press-releases/unite-here-celebrates-five-years-of-record-growth-declaring-one-job-should-be-enough-at-2019-international-union-convention/\">fastest-growing private union\u003c/a>, expanding their ranks by 62,000 since 2014 to 300,000 across the United States and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, 40,000 workers became eligible to unionize in July 2020 when home child care workers voted to form a union under \u003ca href=\"https://childcareprovidersunited.org/\">Child Care Providers United\u003c/a>. Those workers won their first contract about a year later in June 2021, which included state-funded rate increases and funding for training.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Amazon: The next frontier\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Following a failed vote to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, the \u003ca href=\"https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/62421CONVENTIONRESOLUTIONAMAZON.pdf\">Teamsters announced a drive at Amazon warehouses nationwide\u003c/a>. The union even launched a new division dedicated to organizing the online behemoth. Their strategy will pressure the second-largest employer in the country on all fronts: recruit from warehouses, raise public awareness and lean on political allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, that starts by leveraging existing Teamsters members at non-Amazon worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Herrera, international vice president of the western region for the Teamsters and secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 396 in Southern California, likened the unionization drive to taking a bite out of a whale to try to kill it. “It’s going to be extremely difficult,” he said. Teamsters are recruiting volunteers from existing ranks to help with worker outreach because Amazon warehouses have far more employees than typical bargaining units. \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/investing-in-the-u-s\">Amazon has more than 153,000 workers in California\u003c/a>, many of them in warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon spokesperson Maria Boschetti said employees have a choice but the company believes unions will get in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a company, we don’t think unions are the best answer for our employees,” Boschetti wrote in an email. “Every day we empower people to find ways to improve their jobs, and when they do that we want to make those changes — quickly. That type of continuous improvement is harder to do quickly and nimbly with unions in the middle. The benefits of direct relationships between managers and employees can’t be overstated — these relationships allow every employee’s voice to be heard, not just the voices of a select few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]tarting in September, Teamsters members across the Bay Area are being trained to canvas their communities as Amazon buys property in San Francisco, and potentially in Richmond, Pleasanton, Gilroy and San José, according to Doug Bloch, political director of Teamsters Joint Council 7, which covers Northern California, and a member of the Future of Work Commission. Workers are trained to speak to residents about, in part, the importance of unionizing Amazon plants and encourage them to call local politicians, who vote on new Amazon plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders say the Bay Area, which has sympathetic local politicians, will be an important region in which to mount their campaign. Bloch said unions will press city council members and county supervisors to hold Amazon accountable, and to require better wages and benefits, and even to ask the company to be neutral during a union drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the place to bring the fight to Amazon,” said Bloch, who hopes that early union successes here will begin to spread east. Already, the Teamsters are using a new state law requiring warehouses to disclose to workers any quotas or work speed standards as evidence that unions benefit workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloch said he’s even open to pursuing sectoral bargaining. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hirley Reyes tucked herself next to her 17-year-old son on the couch, peppering him with questions about unions as he googled the cost and benefits of collective bargaining on his phone. Reyes, a Filipina single mother, was inquisitive — and a little anxious. Some labor representatives had already knocked on their cramped in-law unit in Daly City, a majority Asian community south of San Francisco. She wondered if she was risking one of her jobs cleaning hotel rooms simply by talking to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son’s findings began to put her at ease. Unions aim to negotiate higher wages and better benefits for workers. It’s likely the surgery she had six years ago would have cost her less under union-negotiated health insurance. After months of hushed discussions at work, Reyes was handed an official secret ballot. It was a yes or no question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Do you wish to be represented for purposes of collective bargaining by UNITE HERE Local 2? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question a vast number of California workers, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/338/2019/12/CA_Future_of_Work_Commission-onboarding.pdf#page=21\">third of whom make $15 an hour or less\u003c/a>, haven’t had the opportunity to answer. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-unions-explained/\">Union participation is at historic lows\u003c/a> and collective bargaining is less prevalent in retail, restaurants and hotels — segments of the private sector with high concentrations of low-wage jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California wants to change that. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/338/2021/02/ca-future-of-work-report.pdf#page=7\">Future of Work Commission\u003c/a>, convened by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to think of moon shot goals for lifting millions of working Californians out of poverty, proposed getting more workers represented as part of the solution to stemming the state’s staggering wage gap. The commission, which included labor and business leaders, asserted in their final report released earlier this year that while a college degree reduces the chance of a low-wage job by 33%, union membership reduces the chance by 39%. That could go a long way in a state where \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaysca.org/realcost\">1 in 3 households with working adults struggle to afford basic necessities\u003c/a>, while the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/income-inequality-in-california/\">top 2% control 20% of the wealth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/5620f835-9623-4f14-a4dd-ef9d8a3326ff?src=embed\" title=\"Prompt for Union Series\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission urges employers and employees to reach agreement on a new social compact that would foster quality jobs over the next decade. But first that requires building consensus around the basic principle of giving workers a greater voice, whether through unions or worker organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t happened yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Diminished voices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The rapid growth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264246010-en.pdf?expires=1635363163&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=31B89D82960E3F484956293A05BFCB0F\">high-skilled tech jobs and the loss of industrial jobs to global labor markets\u003c/a> have significantly widened the gap between rich and poor people. At the same time, worker organization has diminished: The share of \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94x791km\">California workers in a union has steadily declined from about 40% in the 1950s\u003c/a> to 16% last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union participation is especially low in the private sector, which makes up 84% of the state workforce. Today, 1 in 10 private-sector workers belongs to a union, compared to 1 in 2 in the public sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/653dee32-250b-4402-b4df-cb40c8928e23?src=embed\" title=\"Public vs. private union workers\" width=\"800\" height=\"709\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet these private-sector workers are most in need of a voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous reports have documented the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/07/california-covid-deepening-income-inequality-data/\">pandemic’s disproportionate impact on essential workers\u003c/a>, many of whom are immigrants and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/05/pandemic-immigrant-women-unemployment-job-loss/\">women of color\u003c/a>. Many low-wage workers are employed in the service economy, such as retail, hospitality and tourism. They are the ones making and delivering food, producing and packaging goods, and cleaning and caring for others but unable to keep up with their own bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Reyes, who works at the Marriott Waterfront, voting yes to a union worked out for the better. After the contract was signed Aug. 4, Reyes’s wage will rise from $19.80 to $24.30 over the next year. Her health insurance premium dropped from $250 a month to $35. Dental insurance and the option of a 401(k) or pension plans were added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11894001 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-800x534.jpg\" alt='A multistory beige, windowed building with the one-story, red letters spelling \"Marriott\" toward the top.' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior view of the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront in Burlingame, where Shirley Reyes works as a housekeeper, on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">R\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>eyes began putting $200 a month toward her son’s college tuition, pulling back on her long work days and, her favorite part, cooking dinner for her son. Though Reyes was laid off during the pandemic, the union contract gave her priority to return. When the company began rehiring, Reyes was among the first back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not scared anymore,” Reyes said. “We have a contract now. We have job security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of MIT researchers surveyed workers nationally in 2017 and found that about \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019793918806250\">half of nonunionized workers would vote to join a union\u003c/a>. That’s up from 32% in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all workers agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Beltran, who was formerly unionized as an usher at the SAP Center in San José and now does freelance photography, isn’t looking for collective bargaining. Dues are high, and she enjoys her freelance schedule unconstricted by a contract. A few unions have been beset by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/article255081222.html\">power struggles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article254976772.html\">leadership scandals\u003c/a> lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Unions] feel more like a corporation,” she said. “I think they are more in it to make money and less interested in workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Unions can reduce inequality — at a cost\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some researchers say the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w24587\">decline in union membership has contributed to at least 10% of the wealth divide\u003c/a>, according to a 2018 study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research. Henry Farber, an economics professor at Princeton University who co-authored the study, said because wealth inequality is linked to stagnating wages that hurt the lowest-paid workers, unions can act as a counterbalance by lifting up the bottom through wages and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union workers in California are more likely to receive health care through their employers and to earn nearly 13% higher wages than nonunionized workers in similar industries, and they are 50% more likely to have an employer-sponsored retirement plan, according to \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2018/Union-Effect-in-California-1.pdf\">a report by the UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>. Those advantages put an estimated $18.5 billion annually into the hands of lower-income Californians, reducing their reliance on public safety nets and helping to stave off poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions, however, come at a cost to businesses, which argue that the loss of profits will lead to fewer jobs, and the rigidity of union contracts will make it hard to adapt to change. Research from the ‘90s found that \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00299.x\">unionization slows the rate at which a company adds new jobs by 4 percentage points a year\u003c/a>. Another study published more recently in The Quarterly Journal of Economics looked at the market value of publicly traded companies before and after they were unionized. It found that \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/127/1/333/1834007?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">a union election victory led to a roughly 10% decrease in the company’s market value\u003c/a>. 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And that cost, ultimately, is passed along to all Californians who use the products and services union members make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unionized labor agreements for construction projects, for example, can drive up the cost of housing. In 2016, Los Angeles voters passed a $1.2 billion bond for housing for unhoused residents. The city council required that developers constructing over 65 units must use a mostly unionized workforce. The effect, according to research from RAND, a nonpartisan research organization headquartered in Santa Monica, was that \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1362-1.html\">projects cost an additional $43,000 per unit and disincentivized developers from building projects with more than 65 units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on a simulation, the researchers estimated that 800 more units would have been built were it not for the labor agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>That time labor and gig companies failed to compromise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In many ways, California’s wrangling over the employment status of gig workers has been a proxy battle for unionizing an emerging crop of low-wage jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, as labor groups pushed California to classify freelancers as employees through \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">a bill\u003c/a>, some large unions, including Service Employees International Union and International Brotherhood of Teamsters, took part in private negotiations with the gig companies. In a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Open-Forum-Uber-Lyft-ready-to-do-our-part-for-13969843.php\">ride-share executives wrote they’d be willing to work with labor groups\u003c/a> and lawmakers on providing some benefits to drivers, some information on driver pay and supporting the formation of a nonunion drivers association. Perhaps it would have looked something like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/technology/uber-agrees-to-union-deal-in-new-york.html\">Independent Drivers Guild Uber recognized in New York\u003c/a>, an association without the full powers of a union, which has faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/economy/uber-drivers-union.html\">criticism for being funded directly by Uber\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt to sit down and see whether there was a deal to be worked out, says Rome Aloise, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 853, who took part in the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope, he said, was to secure the right to collectively bargain for gig workers and ultimately improve their livelihoods. But, he said, the labor movement as a whole was adamant that the workers become employees. And the companies “weren’t really able to get themselves to the point” where they would accept unions negotiating on workers' behalf over wages and benefits, said Aloise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That made it impossible for the Teamsters to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>here was also pushback from within labor’s ranks. Some argued that unions should not compromise on gig workers gaining employee status, established under \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/S222732.PDF\">a landmark state Supreme Court ruling in 2018\u003c/a>. Negotiations stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2019, the Legislature passed the bill and Newsom signed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, Lyft and other gig companies quickly put a measure on the ballot in 2020 that exempted gig workers from the new law — and prevented drivers from unionizing. After \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">companies spent $205 million\u003c/a>, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">59% of Californians voted to approve\u003c/a> the ballot measure, Proposition 22. Drivers, they decided, would remain freelancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the passage of Proposition 22, Lyft’s president, John Zimmer, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Uber-Lyft-shares-soar-following-passage-of-15701236.php\">The Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-05/prop-22-win-lyft-founder-union-deal-california\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> that the company was still willing to negotiate with labor to increase benefits for drivers while maintaining their independent contractor status. Zimmer also said he was open to sectoral bargaining, when employers and workers negotiate baseline compensation and safety standards that cover most or all of the workers in an industry, not just a single workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft spokesperson CJ Macklin confirmed that remains the company’s position today. “We continue to remain open to working with labor to further strengthen benefits and protections for drivers in ways that also maintain their independence and flexibility,” wrote Macklin in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber’s position for further negotiations is less clear. “Uber remains committed to making independent work better — including supporting policies that provide access to new benefits while protecting the flexibility drivers value most,” wrote Uber spokesperson Austin Heyworth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders remain divided on whether to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still two schools of thought within the labor movement on the path forward for organizing gig workers, says Steve Smith, spokesperson for the California Labor Federation. There’s a camp that says, “No way, no how,” to organizing workers without employee status. Then, says Smith, there are folks who look at the current situation and say: “These folks are without any basic protections. How can we give them not only protections that other workers have in law, but also the right to organize?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 22 guaranteed some driver benefits and compensation, including 30 cents per mile toward expenses, and 120% of minimum wage for their minutes of engaged time driving passengers. That could work out to as little \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/10/gig-worker-pay-prop-22/\">as $5.64 per hour or as much as $27.58 per hour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of gig worker classification isn’t dead yet. In late August, a state Superior Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-20/prop-22-unconstitutional\">judge found that the ballot measure was unconstitutional\u003c/a> and could not be enforced. The judge noted the language aimed at banning drivers from unionizing ought to be considered separate legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition that represents the \u003ca href=\"https://protectdriversandservices.com/prop-22-proponents-statement-in-response-to-seriously-flawed-alameda-superior-court-judge-ruling/\">gig companies pledged to appeal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 22 is overturned in the courts, and gig workers are able to unionize, Smith says that the organizing that has been ongoing since the passage of the proposition will “become more vigorous and urgent.” Whether or not labor would be willing to head back to the negotiating table with gig companies isn’t yet determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s former chief of staff, Ann O’Leary, tweeted that these skirmishes won’t really end until labor and business reach a broader pact for workers.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch3>Labor leaders focus on political influence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a sunny Saturday morning just before Newsom’s Sept. 14 recall election, about 100 union workers gathered in an Oakland parking lot, standing in small groups and chatting while a musician strummed a guitar and sang pro-organizing songs. It was one of several door-knocking events unions coordinated to turn out voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the labor movement, we pride ourselves on turning out the labor vote in big numbers,” Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, who had flown in from Washington, D.C., for the event, told the crowd. “We need to get all of the turnout that we can possibly find in these last four days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing both public- and private-sector workers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/10/newsom-recall-big-donors/\">gave more than $25.7 million\u003c/a> to counter the recall effort, more than the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">$20 million\u003c/a> they had put into the Proposition 22 fight. After the election was called in favor of keeping Newsom, the California Labor Federation released a statement saying that workers completed more than 20,000 volunteer shifts to get out the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said labor volunteering sealed Newsom’s win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11894006 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in matching black T-shirts with red writing, look at flyers in their hands as they wait at a screen door on a porch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Sanchez, a cafeteria worker at Verizon and member of UNITE HERE Local 2, canvasses homes in San José in support of Gov. Gavin Newsom before the recall election, on Sept. 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Jesse Bedayn/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">“W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>e like to tell our folks that [at] the bargaining table, you inevitably will find an employer on the other side who fears you more if you’ve got political power,” says Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions are a major political force in California, and they dedicate funds and volunteer hours to their political goals. In the 2018 state legislative races, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-election-2020/2020/10/california-lawmakers-big-donors-special-interest-independent-expenditures/\">teachers unions and prison guard unions were among the top donors\u003c/a>. During this legislative cycle, labor counted a number of state wins in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-legislature-bills-passed-2021/\">workplace protections for warehouse workers and better pay for garment workers\u003c/a>. At the federal level, labor has made the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act, a legislative priority to ease unionization drives by increasing penalties on businesses for unfair labor practices and requiring employees covered by union contracts to pay dues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been a debate within labor circles over whether unions are devoting enough resources to recruiting new members and growing the labor movement. This debate over priorities reemerged \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/business/richard-trumka-dead.html\">after the death of former AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka\u003c/a>, who focused more on political advocacy and fostered close relationships with the Obama and Biden administrations. \u003ca href=\"https://splinternews.com/afl-cio-budget-is-a-stark-illustration-of-the-decline-o-1834793722\">Leaked AFL-CIO budget documents show\u003c/a> that under Trumka’s tenure, the nation’s foremost labor federation went from spending nearly 30% of its budget on organizing to 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, there’s a fair amount of variation in how much money unions devote to recruiting new members, says Pulaski. The federation recommends that unions spend at least 20% of their annual budget on recruiting new members, sometimes with high-profile disappointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple years ago, for example, Tesla beat back a unionization drive at its Fremont plant. The electric carmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/30/20891314/elon-musk-tesla-labor-violation-nlrb\">banned workers\u003c/a> from wearing pro-union garb, attempted to shift four pro-union workers to management positions so that they could no longer advocate for a union, and fired a worker. Security guards harassed workers handing out union pamphlets in the parking lot. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998454539941367808\">Elon Musk even sent a tweet\u003c/a>, seeming to threaten that if workers unionized they’d lose their stock options. There was never a union election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some private-sector unions have made gains in recent years. \u003ca href=\"https://unitehere.org/\">UNITE HERE\u003c/a>, a union for service workers, claims to be the \u003ca href=\"https://unitehere.org/press-releases/unite-here-celebrates-five-years-of-record-growth-declaring-one-job-should-be-enough-at-2019-international-union-convention/\">fastest-growing private union\u003c/a>, expanding their ranks by 62,000 since 2014 to 300,000 across the United States and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, 40,000 workers became eligible to unionize in July 2020 when home child care workers voted to form a union under \u003ca href=\"https://childcareprovidersunited.org/\">Child Care Providers United\u003c/a>. Those workers won their first contract about a year later in June 2021, which included state-funded rate increases and funding for training.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Amazon: The next frontier\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Following a failed vote to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, the \u003ca href=\"https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/62421CONVENTIONRESOLUTIONAMAZON.pdf\">Teamsters announced a drive at Amazon warehouses nationwide\u003c/a>. The union even launched a new division dedicated to organizing the online behemoth. Their strategy will pressure the second-largest employer in the country on all fronts: recruit from warehouses, raise public awareness and lean on political allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, that starts by leveraging existing Teamsters members at non-Amazon worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Herrera, international vice president of the western region for the Teamsters and secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 396 in Southern California, likened the unionization drive to taking a bite out of a whale to try to kill it. “It’s going to be extremely difficult,” he said. Teamsters are recruiting volunteers from existing ranks to help with worker outreach because Amazon warehouses have far more employees than typical bargaining units. \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/investing-in-the-u-s\">Amazon has more than 153,000 workers in California\u003c/a>, many of them in warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon spokesperson Maria Boschetti said employees have a choice but the company believes unions will get in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a company, we don’t think unions are the best answer for our employees,” Boschetti wrote in an email. “Every day we empower people to find ways to improve their jobs, and when they do that we want to make those changes — quickly. That type of continuous improvement is harder to do quickly and nimbly with unions in the middle. The benefits of direct relationships between managers and employees can’t be overstated — these relationships allow every employee’s voice to be heard, not just the voices of a select few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>tarting in September, Teamsters members across the Bay Area are being trained to canvas their communities as Amazon buys property in San Francisco, and potentially in Richmond, Pleasanton, Gilroy and San José, according to Doug Bloch, political director of Teamsters Joint Council 7, which covers Northern California, and a member of the Future of Work Commission. Workers are trained to speak to residents about, in part, the importance of unionizing Amazon plants and encourage them to call local politicians, who vote on new Amazon plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders say the Bay Area, which has sympathetic local politicians, will be an important region in which to mount their campaign. Bloch said unions will press city council members and county supervisors to hold Amazon accountable, and to require better wages and benefits, and even to ask the company to be neutral during a union drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the place to bring the fight to Amazon,” said Bloch, who hopes that early union successes here will begin to spread east. Already, the Teamsters are using a new state law requiring warehouses to disclose to workers any quotas or work speed standards as evidence that unions benefit workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloch said he’s even open to pursuing sectoral bargaining. Unlike unionization, one form of sectoral bargaining could begin with state legislation to designate an appointed council to negotiate wages and benefits on behalf of all warehouse workers in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything,” he says, “is on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-divide/\">California Divide\u003c/a> project, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Employment Development Department Director Rita Saenz said the state has implemented new identity verification software that, along with other preventive measures, has stopped an estimated $120 billion in fraud attempts.[aside postID=news_11868681,news_11872086,news_11888075]Saenz told lawmakers on Monday during an oversight hearing that “2020 was an anomaly, a criminal assault on the unemployment insurance program across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We closed the door to that type of fraud last year,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, state officials estimated \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-bdb79d54d86c3758650fa4f7163cebb2\">the fraud could be as high as $31 billion\u003c/a>. But Monday, state officials revised that down to $20 billion. The Newsom administration has hired former U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott to help prosecute scammers, with the department saying Monday investigations are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department is still plagued with other problems. When people apply for unemployment benefits, sometimes the information they file with the state is different from what their former employer has filed. When this happens, state officials have to interview these people to resolve those issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article255145237.html\">people are having to wait up to six months for these interviews\u003c/a>. Saenz called this delay “unacceptable.” But she said the state has a new policy that pays people their benefits while they wait, as long as they pass the state’s fraud filters. Saenz said about half of the people waiting for interviews are being paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are not improving fast enough for some. There are still some challenges ahead,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has paid out more than \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/Newsroom/facts-and-stats/dashboard.htm\">$178 billion in unemployment benefits\u003c/a> since the start of the pandemic based on 25.5 million total claims. Saenz said that’s four times as much as the combined worst two years of the Great Recession a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheer volume of claims overwhelmed the department, creating a massive backlog and making it nearly impossible to get an answer when people called the agency’s call centers. In January, a state audit blasted the department for doing little to stop the fraud for the first four months of the pandemic, blaming the Newsom administration for “significant missteps and inaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday, the auditor’s office said the department had completed \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/Newsroom/facts-and-stats/audit-progress.htm\">13 of its 21 recommendations\u003c/a> so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“EDD has made notable progress in addressing areas of concern we found during our audits. But significant steps still need to be taken to address areas of risk,” said Bob Harris, who managed the department’s audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saenz told lawmakers the department had not missed any of the auditor’s deadlines to make changes. She said the department plans to finish hiring people for its newly formed fraud investigation unit by the end of November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other changes will take longer. 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These are Republican-led states with leaders who have been highly critical of California’s pandemic approach, as California has been with their approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Nine of California’s 11 industry sectors gained jobs in September, led by leisure and hospitality based on what state officials said was strength in performing arts and spectator sports. Of the more than 2.1 million jobs lost in California at the start of the pandemic in March and April of 2020, the state has regained just over 1.7 million, or 63.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">“Our economic recovery continues to make promising progress, with 812,00 new jobs this year and regaining over 63% of those jobs we lost to the pandemic,” said Gov. 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New estimates published Friday show \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/707\">the state is on pace to have between “$8 billion and $30 billion in unanticipated revenue”\u003c/a> this year, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">That’s mostly because of the state’s high concentration of billion-dollar tech companies and their wealthy executives, who pay a higher tax rate on capital gains than in most other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">It’s also because most of the state’s job losses during the pandemic were lower-wage jobs. The state’s higher-wage earners mostly kept their jobs and transitioned to working from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">That doesn’t mean California could have a $30 billion surplus next year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/10/cual-es-el-impacto-real-de-los-incendios-forestales-en-la-economia-de-california/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not a single structure burned down \u003ca href=\"https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100\">in the city of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>. And yet, the threat of the fast-approaching Caldor Fire cost surrounding El Dorado County tens of millions of dollars, if not more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In South Lake Tahoe, Domi Chavarria, co-owner of Verde Mexican Rotisserie, felt the devastation of the Caldor Fire even before the city was evacuated in August. Smoke had blanketed the city, and the tourists had mostly left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When authorities ordered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886947/thousands-more-evacuated-as-caldor-fire-moves-closer-to-south-lake-tahoe\">the evacuation of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>, Verde was stocked with food, almost all of which went bad during the more than two weeks the restaurant ultimately remained closed. Produce wilted; proteins went bad; prepared sauces couldn’t be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that stuff, none of that’s made to last weeks — it’s all made to last days,” says Chavarria. He estimates the lost inventory was worth between $10,000 and $13,000. None of it was covered by his insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892015 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hooded sweatshirt and a baseball hat on backward stands behind a restaurant counter looking evenly at the camera.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domi Chavarria at his restaurant, Verde Mexican Rotisserie, in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Losses like Chavarria’s add up — to at least $50.3 million in lost economic activity for El Dorado County, according to an initial estimate shared with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing the true cost of wildfires could spur more ambitious action from both government and the private sector, experts say. For instance, tracking the costs systematically over several years could help policymakers figure out which fire prevention and mitigation strategies are most cost effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, California has an incomplete understanding of how much wildfires cost the state each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs of business disruption, the cost of damage to uninsured homes, the cost of ecosystem damage, and the cost of secondary health impacts — such as those caused by wildfire smoke — aren’t being tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t have a comprehensive picture of the economic harm wildfires cause each year, explains Teresa Feo, senior science officer at the California Council on Science and Technology and lead author of \u003ca href=\"https://ccst.us/reports/the-costs-of-wildfire-in-california/\">a 2020 report from the council\u003c/a> on the cost of wildfires in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a statewide systematic tracking effort to figure out these costs,” said Feo. She said it took only about a month of digging into the question to realize: “‘Oh no, you can’t come up with a number. This is actually impossible with the existing data.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state does not track or estimate the cost of wildfires in a way that accounts for public health costs or ecological damage on a regular basis, confirmed Heather Williams, communications director for the California Natural Resources Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those would always be a moving target since health impacts can occur years later,” Williams wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But with more research being funded, this may be more feasible to help the state better understand the economic and ecological impacts so we can continue to make science-based informed policy decisions,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892013 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with her hair back and wearing gloves chops tomatoes in a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Garcia preps food in the kitchen at Verde Mexican Rotisserie in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. Owner Domi Chavarria lost about $10,000 worth of inventory when they shut down for two weeks due to the Caldor Fire evacuation. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The different costs of wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The initial analysis of the Caldor Fire’s economic impact was prepared by Tom Harris, an economist at the University of Nevada, Reno, for the Tahoe Prosperity Center, an economic development organization for the Lake Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892030\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg\" alt='A bright green garbage dumpster painted with the words \"Food Only\" full of raw chicken.' width=\"1000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food inventory from the Verde Mexican Rotisserie restaurant had to be discarded after a two-week evacuation order due to the Caldor Fire in South Lake Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Domi Chavarria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The study estimates the combined losses of El Dorado and Nevada’s Douglas County at $93 million. And, says Harris, that preliminary estimate is low: It doesn’t include the losses in sectors like rental homes or recreation businesses. Nor does it include the lost economic activity caused by residents evacuating, and it doesn’t take into account the health care costs associated with wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some costs are more immediate — the cost of Chavarria’s rotted food, for instance, and the fact that the fire took place over Labor Day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a slow weekend in Tahoe,” said Chavarria. Tourism is about 63% of the Tahoe basin’s economy, \u003ca href=\"https://tahoeprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/measuring-for-prosperity-community-and-economic-indicators-for-the-lake-tahoe-basin-2018.pdf\">according to a 2018 report from the Tahoe Prosperity Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the slowdown in business due to smoke and the evacuation, Verde lost several weeks of revenue. Chavarria says that a month of sales for the restaurant is more than $100,000. Verde’s employees also went without paychecks for the two weeks the restaurant was shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Smith, co-founder and taproom manager of South Lake Brewing Company, said her business fared better than many, partially because none of the beer went bad. But between the loss of sales in the company’s own taproom and the beer it sells to other local businesses, the brewery lost somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000 of revenue during the evacuation, estimates Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to lost business, some figures are easier to pin down, like the amount Cal Fire spends on fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state, for example, does not systematically track deaths and health conditions linked to wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs associated with smoke may be the largest costs we’re missing, says Feo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890211\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Leadphoto-800x533.png\"]One study \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002601\">produced by public health department researchers and academics\u003c/a> tracked the use of Medi-Cal services during San Diego’s 2007 fall fire season. It found that during the peak fire period, emergency room visits for respiratory conditions increased by 34% and visits for asthma increased by 113%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially concerning was a 136% increase in ER visits for children age 4 and younger for asthma. That finding, the authors wrote, “is cause for particular concern because of the potential for long-term harm to children’s lung development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A systematic effort to track wildfire smoke effects would be especially profound, says Feo, because it reaches so far beyond the location of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, for example, smoke from the Camp Fire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969409/no-you-didnt-wake-up-to-the-apocalypse-wildfire-smoke-turns-bay-area-sky-orange-and-dark\">clogged San Francisco\u003c/a>, a city more than 100 miles away. If you can put figures on the impact of smoke across the whole state, “who’s impacted by the fire suddenly changes very dramatically, and therefore who benefits from the prevention and mitigation changes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892020 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A red and white sign on a tall pole along a two-lane road, surrounded by tall fir trees, with smoke haze in the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the town of Kyburz says, “Welcome to Kyburz/Happy New Year 2021,” while the Caldor Fire burns nearby on Aug. 31, 2021. The residents of Kyburz were ordered to evacuate for several days during the Caldor Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Different approaches to wildfire data\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The current approach to assessing the aftermath of wildfires is a hodgepodge of research looking into different aspects that is not led by any one agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A smattering of data collection efforts includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California Air Resources Board funding a study of the health impact of wildfire smoke statewide for 2017, 2018 and 2020, which will be ready in three or four years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The board also funding a study of lost work days due to wildfire smoke, which will be ready in a couple of years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal Fire also increasing funding for \u003ca href=\"https://frap.fire.ca.gov/research-monitoring/forest-health-research-program-overview-grant-solicitation/\">research into forest health\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(the Department of Insurance tabulates \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2020/12/homeowners-insurers-fire-science/\">the damage to insured homes\u003c/a> for some major wildfires, but does not track damage from all wildfires each year).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A variety of academic studies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Academic research on the cost of wildfires tends to come out several years later, and different studies focus on different fires using different methodologies. That makes it difficult to compare the findings, or track the costs over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These studies also are conducted based on the interests of the particular researcher, says Louise Comfort, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a faculty affiliate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society Policy Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t give us a comprehensive view,” Comfort said. She credits a UC-system-wide effort \u003ca href=\"https://uckeepresearching.org/2021-uc-resilience-symposium-series/\">to study the impacts of wildfires\u003c/a> as a step in the right direction, but says the results are still not arriving in a standardized way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state may be in the best position to lead the effort on tracking the economic impact of wildfires. “The only thing that would give us a comprehensive view is if the state really said, ‘We want this kind of information,'” said Comfort. But the state agencies shouldn’t go it alone, she says: They should engage experts in the university system.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size='large' align='right']In 2020, for example, a team of researchers studied the nationwide impact of California’s 2018 wildfire season, and estimated that its economic damage totaled $148.5 billion.[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nWithout statewide, systematically published numbers, it’s more difficult to compare how different regions are suffering from wildfires, or to assess the cost effectiveness of different wildfire prevention strategies. And it may be more challenging to justify spending on expensive, but nonetheless cost-effective, mitigation or prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a question that comes up when talking about spending taxpayer dollars, Feo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While wildfire costs aren’t tracked, there are some academic studies that attempt to estimate those costs and produce mind-boggling figures. In 2020, for example, a team of researchers studied the nationwide impact of California’s 2018 wildfire season, and estimated that its economic damage totaled $148.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00646-7\">published in Nature Sustainability\u003c/a>, captured direct capital costs, such as buildings burning down; health costs, including those related to air pollution exposure; and indirect losses such as the economic disruption of lost hours of work, as well as disruption to regional and national supply chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs identified in that study exceed that of any disaster in the U.S. between the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, other than Hurricane Katrina, says Adam Rose, a research professor at the University of Southern California and an expert in energy and environmental economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said that a standardized methodology for assessing the total cost of wildfires should be established and applied on a regular basis — and it needs to be one that can be implemented relatively rapidly, as opposed to several years after a fire. That would allow a whole field of researchers to help track these costs, and would make their findings comparable. In addition to helping make the political case for government-led fire-prevention efforts, those numbers might spur private sector action on fire prevention efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1976952\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/09/Grapes-2048x1536.jpg\"]But not all experts said that measuring the costs associated with each wildfire season is important. William Siembieda, a professor emeritus at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and senior member of a Cal Poly team that prepared several of the state’s hazard mitigation plans, says he doesn’t know how policymakers would make use of those numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What would be useful, Siembieda says, is for cities to model the economic impact of different levels of fire damage. What would be the cost if 5% of the city burned? What if 10% or 20% burned?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With those estimates, local officials could decide whether they’re prepared to absorb that loss, insure against the risk or pursue other strategies.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s next for survivors?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For a couple weeks now, South Lake Tahoe residents and business owners have been reopening their restaurants, shops and adventure outfits, taking stock of what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lisa Schafer, co-owner of Wildwood Makers Market, returned to the city and drove to her shop for the first time, she felt waves of different emotions. There was the fear she’d been holding on to — that her hometown, her house and her business would all burn to a crisp. There was the gratitude she felt for the fact that they had all been spared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cried the whole drive,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her shop, which sells jewelry, wall decor, embroidery kits and other gifts, smelled smoky for her first few days back. It wasn’t a pleasant campfire smell. “It smelled like beef jerky,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='wildfires']Business didn’t return to normal immediately; tourists didn’t rush back to the area. All told, Shafer lost about 60% of sales in September. Her insurance won’t cover that loss of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s clear, she says, that these fires are not going away. She said she wishes there were some sort of automatic aid for businesses and individuals affected by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Wildwood Makers Market will bounce back from loss of business, Schafer said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/10/cual-es-el-impacto-real-de-los-incendios-forestales-en-la-economia-de-california/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not a single structure burned down \u003ca href=\"https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100\">in the city of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>. And yet, the threat of the fast-approaching Caldor Fire cost surrounding El Dorado County tens of millions of dollars, if not more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In South Lake Tahoe, Domi Chavarria, co-owner of Verde Mexican Rotisserie, felt the devastation of the Caldor Fire even before the city was evacuated in August. Smoke had blanketed the city, and the tourists had mostly left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When authorities ordered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886947/thousands-more-evacuated-as-caldor-fire-moves-closer-to-south-lake-tahoe\">the evacuation of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>, Verde was stocked with food, almost all of which went bad during the more than two weeks the restaurant ultimately remained closed. Produce wilted; proteins went bad; prepared sauces couldn’t be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that stuff, none of that’s made to last weeks — it’s all made to last days,” says Chavarria. He estimates the lost inventory was worth between $10,000 and $13,000. 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For instance, tracking the costs systematically over several years could help policymakers figure out which fire prevention and mitigation strategies are most cost effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, California has an incomplete understanding of how much wildfires cost the state each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs of business disruption, the cost of damage to uninsured homes, the cost of ecosystem damage, and the cost of secondary health impacts — such as those caused by wildfire smoke — aren’t being tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t have a comprehensive picture of the economic harm wildfires cause each year, explains Teresa Feo, senior science officer at the California Council on Science and Technology and lead author of \u003ca href=\"https://ccst.us/reports/the-costs-of-wildfire-in-california/\">a 2020 report from the council\u003c/a> on the cost of wildfires in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a statewide systematic tracking effort to figure out these costs,” said Feo. She said it took only about a month of digging into the question to realize: “‘Oh no, you can’t come up with a number. This is actually impossible with the existing data.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state does not track or estimate the cost of wildfires in a way that accounts for public health costs or ecological damage on a regular basis, confirmed Heather Williams, communications director for the California Natural Resources Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those would always be a moving target since health impacts can occur years later,” Williams wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But with more research being funded, this may be more feasible to help the state better understand the economic and ecological impacts so we can continue to make science-based informed policy decisions,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892013 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with her hair back and wearing gloves chops tomatoes in a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Garcia preps food in the kitchen at Verde Mexican Rotisserie in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. Owner Domi Chavarria lost about $10,000 worth of inventory when they shut down for two weeks due to the Caldor Fire evacuation. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The different costs of wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The initial analysis of the Caldor Fire’s economic impact was prepared by Tom Harris, an economist at the University of Nevada, Reno, for the Tahoe Prosperity Center, an economic development organization for the Lake Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892030\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg\" alt='A bright green garbage dumpster painted with the words \"Food Only\" full of raw chicken.' width=\"1000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food inventory from the Verde Mexican Rotisserie restaurant had to be discarded after a two-week evacuation order due to the Caldor Fire in South Lake Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Domi Chavarria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The study estimates the combined losses of El Dorado and Nevada’s Douglas County at $93 million. And, says Harris, that preliminary estimate is low: It doesn’t include the losses in sectors like rental homes or recreation businesses. Nor does it include the lost economic activity caused by residents evacuating, and it doesn’t take into account the health care costs associated with wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some costs are more immediate — the cost of Chavarria’s rotted food, for instance, and the fact that the fire took place over Labor Day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a slow weekend in Tahoe,” said Chavarria. Tourism is about 63% of the Tahoe basin’s economy, \u003ca href=\"https://tahoeprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/measuring-for-prosperity-community-and-economic-indicators-for-the-lake-tahoe-basin-2018.pdf\">according to a 2018 report from the Tahoe Prosperity Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the slowdown in business due to smoke and the evacuation, Verde lost several weeks of revenue. Chavarria says that a month of sales for the restaurant is more than $100,000. Verde’s employees also went without paychecks for the two weeks the restaurant was shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Smith, co-founder and taproom manager of South Lake Brewing Company, said her business fared better than many, partially because none of the beer went bad. But between the loss of sales in the company’s own taproom and the beer it sells to other local businesses, the brewery lost somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000 of revenue during the evacuation, estimates Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to lost business, some figures are easier to pin down, like the amount Cal Fire spends on fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state, for example, does not systematically track deaths and health conditions linked to wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs associated with smoke may be the largest costs we’re missing, says Feo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One study \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002601\">produced by public health department researchers and academics\u003c/a> tracked the use of Medi-Cal services during San Diego’s 2007 fall fire season. It found that during the peak fire period, emergency room visits for respiratory conditions increased by 34% and visits for asthma increased by 113%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially concerning was a 136% increase in ER visits for children age 4 and younger for asthma. That finding, the authors wrote, “is cause for particular concern because of the potential for long-term harm to children’s lung development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A systematic effort to track wildfire smoke effects would be especially profound, says Feo, because it reaches so far beyond the location of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, for example, smoke from the Camp Fire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969409/no-you-didnt-wake-up-to-the-apocalypse-wildfire-smoke-turns-bay-area-sky-orange-and-dark\">clogged San Francisco\u003c/a>, a city more than 100 miles away. If you can put figures on the impact of smoke across the whole state, “who’s impacted by the fire suddenly changes very dramatically, and therefore who benefits from the prevention and mitigation changes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892020 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A red and white sign on a tall pole along a two-lane road, surrounded by tall fir trees, with smoke haze in the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the town of Kyburz says, “Welcome to Kyburz/Happy New Year 2021,” while the Caldor Fire burns nearby on Aug. 31, 2021. The residents of Kyburz were ordered to evacuate for several days during the Caldor Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Different approaches to wildfire data\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The current approach to assessing the aftermath of wildfires is a hodgepodge of research looking into different aspects that is not led by any one agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A smattering of data collection efforts includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California Air Resources Board funding a study of the health impact of wildfire smoke statewide for 2017, 2018 and 2020, which will be ready in three or four years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The board also funding a study of lost work days due to wildfire smoke, which will be ready in a couple of years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal Fire also increasing funding for \u003ca href=\"https://frap.fire.ca.gov/research-monitoring/forest-health-research-program-overview-grant-solicitation/\">research into forest health\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(the Department of Insurance tabulates \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2020/12/homeowners-insurers-fire-science/\">the damage to insured homes\u003c/a> for some major wildfires, but does not track damage from all wildfires each year).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A variety of academic studies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Academic research on the cost of wildfires tends to come out several years later, and different studies focus on different fires using different methodologies. That makes it difficult to compare the findings, or track the costs over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These studies also are conducted based on the interests of the particular researcher, says Louise Comfort, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a faculty affiliate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society Policy Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t give us a comprehensive view,” Comfort said. She credits a UC-system-wide effort \u003ca href=\"https://uckeepresearching.org/2021-uc-resilience-symposium-series/\">to study the impacts of wildfires\u003c/a> as a step in the right direction, but says the results are still not arriving in a standardized way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state may be in the best position to lead the effort on tracking the economic impact of wildfires. “The only thing that would give us a comprehensive view is if the state really said, ‘We want this kind of information,'” said Comfort. But the state agencies shouldn’t go it alone, she says: They should engage experts in the university system.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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