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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“San Francisco at that time, particularly Western Addition, was filled with families, thousands of families, that lived here and worked here and paid taxes here,” said Maddie Scott, who lost her son to gun violence in 1996. “And then the violence happened. The guns and drugs were dumped in our neighborhoods and that’s when all hell broke loose. And now here we are, 22 years later, and families now can’t even afford to live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This local reparations effort comes amid a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/business/economy/reparations-slavery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national campaign\u003c/a> to compensate black Americans for the suffering they experienced under slavery and subsequent racial injustices. The issue has been raised during recent presidential debates, and several Democratic hopefuls, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, have declared their support for legislation that would commission a study on reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco, the NAACP emphasized, is one of the wealthiest cities in the nation, and has an obligation to address its ongoing failure to provide equal opportunity to black residents, who have been forced out in droves. The group notes that African Americans today make up less than 5% of the city’s population, down from about 13% in the 1970s. And while an estimated 10% of all San Francisco residents live in poverty, that rate hovers above 30% for its black residents, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/poverty-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">city figures\u003c/a> from 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reparations could help the city’s remaining black population stay here and flourish, the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now the numbers are so low. And it’s all by design,” said Dan Daniels Sr., coastal area director of the NAACP’s California & Hawaii State Conference. “They’ve done it through racism, through rent control, through other initiatives that have been designed, allegedly designed, to improve the quality of life for citizens of San Francisco. But it has not helped black folks. The majority of black folks that live here are on welfare and struggling and being forced out of a community that most of them grew up in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Vallie Brown said they support the movement but have no plans to draft legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting from Bay City News’ Daniel Montes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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And let’s just say, he really got into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Thanksgiving dinner, they’d peruse Black Friday ads, developing a “really fun strategic plan — pick the store that we were going to wait outside of, we would divide and conquer,” said Ott, 42, a cybersecurity engineer and youth pastor in the Denver area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789094\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11789094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/portion-of-people-who-planned-to-do_chartbuilder_custom-f10ddf66cf4b037f5741b06bb31b1593291dc770-s600-c85-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/portion-of-people-who-planned-to-do_chartbuilder_custom-f10ddf66cf4b037f5741b06bb31b1593291dc770-s600-c85-1.png 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/portion-of-people-who-planned-to-do_chartbuilder_custom-f10ddf66cf4b037f5741b06bb31b1593291dc770-s600-c85-1-160x256.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, 36% of people said they planned to do most of their holiday shopping on Black Friday in 2019. That’s down from 51% in 2016 and 59% in 2015. \u003ccite>(PwC survey, Holiday Outlook 2019)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was so extreme for us that we’d be on vacation with family in Florida over Thanksgiving and we would wait outside the Best Buy in Orlando to see what we could get there,” he added with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lately, this family tradition has fizzled out. Stores kept opening earlier, cutting into Thanksgiving dinner. The internet made it easy to price-check deals that started to seem less worthwhile. Online shopping became convenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, “we decided we’d rather just put up Christmas decorations, and didn’t even go,” Ott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Ott. This year, only 36% of people said they planned to do most of their holiday shopping on Black Friday — down from 51% just three years ago, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black Friday is still a very major event, both for retailers and for shopping. But historically, it’s been \u003cem>the\u003c/em> major event and now it’s just a part of the overall season,” said Steve Barr, who leads PwC’s consumer markets practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stores have “permanently conditioned” shoppers to expect big discounts on days other than Black Friday, Barr said. Retailers have made up additional shopping holidays like Cyber Monday and Prime Day. They’ve moved doorbusters back to Thursday and even Wednesday. This year, many started holiday sales in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, Black Friday is still the busiest shopping day of the year. “Our data shows that there’s still a massive spike on Black Friday,” said Brian Field of ShopperTrak, which tracks in-store foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not everyone who visits a store actually buys something. Still, compared with the rest of the year, Field said, Black Friday also does better at attracting shoppers to stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the past two years, the number of people joining the tradition has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/24/black-friday-thanksgiving-foot-traffic-drops-1-percent-shoppertrak.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inched lower\u003c/a>. And some experts say, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789095\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11789095\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/how-people-planned-to-do-holiday_chartbuilder_custom-baa2068ff0ff322af03f2f0d624e59fc2ae2dc86-s600-c85.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/how-people-planned-to-do-holiday_chartbuilder_custom-baa2068ff0ff322af03f2f0d624e59fc2ae2dc86-s600-c85.png 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/how-people-planned-to-do-holiday_chartbuilder_custom-baa2068ff0ff322af03f2f0d624e59fc2ae2dc86-s600-c85-160x256.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the first time in 2019, the majority of people told a PwC survey they planned to do most of their holiday shopping online rather than in stores. \u003ccite>(PwC survey, Holiday Outlook 2019)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a minor decline,” Field said. “And it’s probably more than made up for with the shopping that’s happening online.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, this year PwC found — for the first time — the majority of people planned to do their holiday shopping online instead of in stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, stores have tried for years to make doorbusters a more pleasant experience, to tame the stampedes and the fights over toys and TVs. 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And let’s just say, he really got into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Thanksgiving dinner, they’d peruse Black Friday ads, developing a “really fun strategic plan — pick the store that we were going to wait outside of, we would divide and conquer,” said Ott, 42, a cybersecurity engineer and youth pastor in the Denver area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789094\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11789094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/portion-of-people-who-planned-to-do_chartbuilder_custom-f10ddf66cf4b037f5741b06bb31b1593291dc770-s600-c85-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/portion-of-people-who-planned-to-do_chartbuilder_custom-f10ddf66cf4b037f5741b06bb31b1593291dc770-s600-c85-1.png 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/portion-of-people-who-planned-to-do_chartbuilder_custom-f10ddf66cf4b037f5741b06bb31b1593291dc770-s600-c85-1-160x256.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, 36% of people said they planned to do most of their holiday shopping on Black Friday in 2019. 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This year, only 36% of people said they planned to do most of their holiday shopping on Black Friday — down from 51% just three years ago, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black Friday is still a very major event, both for retailers and for shopping. But historically, it’s been \u003cem>the\u003c/em> major event and now it’s just a part of the overall season,” said Steve Barr, who leads PwC’s consumer markets practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stores have “permanently conditioned” shoppers to expect big discounts on days other than Black Friday, Barr said. Retailers have made up additional shopping holidays like Cyber Monday and Prime Day. They’ve moved doorbusters back to Thursday and even Wednesday. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on July 31, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]G[/dropcap]rowing up, Robin Burton didn’t really know much about her mother, Cloudia Leslie Wells. “I was never told that my mom was mentally ill. My grandparents raised me, her mom and dad, and my mom would come home for a couple months and she’d be gone for a couple of years, and this was normal to me growing up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Robin Burton, founder of the Facebook group Missing & Homeless']‘The only thing that I want to say to my mom whenever I find her is, “I love you.” That means more to me than anything else in the world, is just for her to hear those three words: “I love you.”‘[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton was an adult by the time she learned her mom had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. That finally answered questions unanswered when her mom was breezing in and out of her life. Like many kids who don’t understand what they’re looking at when they’re looking at severe mental illness, little Robin came up with a story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that she was living the life of the rich and famous, and didn’t have time for me. That was so far from the truth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a sadness she learned to live with early in life. But when Burton was in her 20s, she lost her mom in a new and different way. First, her grandparents died. Then, when her mom swung through town, sometime around Christmas in 1994, and learned about their deaths, she left and didn’t come back. Ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was 23 whenever she went missing, and I’m 48 years old now,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schizophrenia can be a debilitating disease. There’s no known cure, though medications can help. “We don’t know what it is. We don’t know what causes it. I don’t even know what the meaning of a cure would be,” said \u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/people/robert_rosenheck.profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Rosenheck\u003c/a>, professor of psychiatry and of health policy at the Yale School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11764368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/FB_IMG_1558461841538.jpg\" alt=\"A rare family photo of young Robin Burton with her mother, Cloudia Leslie Wells.\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/FB_IMG_1558461841538.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/FB_IMG_1558461841538-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/FB_IMG_1558461841538-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/FB_IMG_1558461841538-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rare family photo of young Robin Burton with her mother, Cloudia Leslie Wells. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robin Burton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scientists do know schizophrenia affects people of every race, culture and economic class. Common symptoms include delusions, social withdrawal and an inability to cope with strong emotions. “Schizophrenia interferes with all areas of mental life. It makes it hard to think clearly. It makes people fearful, angry sometimes, and sometimes numb,” Rosenheck added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why you see so many homeless people with schizophrenia. It’s hard for other people to connect with them and stay connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the years wore on, Burton hired a private investigator to find Cloudia, though a lot of people told her to let it go. A lot of people tell her that now. But Burton won’t give up on the hope that Cloudia is still alive, and that there might be some benefit to seeing her again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not here to judge my mom, and I’m not here to ask her any questions on why she didn’t come home, or where she’s been, because she has her own reasons. The only thing that I want to say to my mom whenever I find her is, ‘I love you.’ That means more to me than anything else in the world, is just for her to hear those three words: ‘I love you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is, how to find her?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The First Trip to California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Burton lives in Collinsville, Illinois. “I work at Geico. I’m an insurance agent. I also bartend on the weekends,” at a popular local watering hole called Ardie and Tiny’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Robin Burton, founder of the Facebook group Missing & Homeless']‘You know, the question that I get asked a lot, and most families do that are looking for their missing loved ones that are living homeless, is maybe they don’t want to be found.’[/pullquote]One evening, almost five years ago, Burton was working at that bar, “and it was a slow night, and I had a phone call from my private investigator, and he had told me that he doesn’t know how he missed it. But my mom’s Social Security number was used at a homeless shelter in 2013.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a homeless shelter in Santa Monica, California, roughly 2,000 miles from Collinsville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton explained, “I didn’t think a whole lot of it because I’ve been on wild goose chases before. I told a customer, just for small talk, about the phone call conversation. Unbeknownst to me, that customer went home and started Googling the Web. Two days later, he called me on the phone and he said, ‘Robin, I need your email address. There’s something I want you to look at.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a 2014 article from the Los Angeles Times, talking about the annual point-in-time count of the local homeless population. There was one photograph up top, of a homeless woman on the street. “I knew immediately that it was her. Because your eyes don’t change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton called up the L.A. Times, and the reporter put Burton in touch with the photographer, who said the photo was taken one year before the article was written.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“January 2013 in Santa Monica, California, the exact same place and area my mom’s Social Security number was used. In the same year. And that was all the confirmation I needed, ’cause I already knew it was her,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tip was 2 years old, but she decided to chase it down anyway. She set up a Go Fund Me page to get help paying for a rental car to get to California, and for a motel room to stay in when she got there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local \u003ca href=\"https://fox2now.com/2015/02/17/collinsville-woman-heads-to-la-to-find-her-mother-after-spotting-her-in-la-times-picture/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News\u003c/a> outlet broadcast a set-up story the night before Burton left for L.A. By then, Burton had talked with a police officer at the LAPD, who told her Cloudia had been sighted on L.A.’s skid row. Burton told Fox, “I’m not scared of skid row. That’s not my biggest fear. My biggest fear is my mom not wanting to come back with me. Alls I know is I have to find her. I gotta let her know I love her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lessons Learned on Skid Row\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11764385 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS27189_GettyImages-691243686-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman passes a wheelchair-bound homeless man on Spring Street on May 1, 2017, in Los Angeles. The 2017 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count indicated a dramatic jump of 20 percent in the city of Los Angeles, while Los Angeles County has spiked 23 percent. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There has been a skid row in Los Angeles since the late 19th century. There have been attempts to clear out the poverty and crime from this square mile in the heart of downtown since the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s never looked as bad as it does in modern times: a tent city of roughly 4,000 people has sprung up on these sun-baked concrete sidewalks, crawling with rats and bedbugs, reeking with the smell of human urine and feces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin arrived in 2015 carrying a box of candy bars wrapped with her mom’s picture, but she made a critical mistake. She brought along another TV camera crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People on the streets were not happy to see that, or her. “The very first day out there was very scary and emotional for me. I broke down crying. I had to leave. I had to leave and I had to go back to my motel and take a deep breath and re-evaluate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the motel room, Burton decided she needed to try again, in a different way. “Without the cameras, everything was so different. and it was actually the homeless that was helping me look for my mom. It was them that was telling me, ‘You know I wish I had somebody looking for me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could imagine Cloudia visiting a place like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.downtownwomenscenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Downtown Women’s Center\u003c/a>. Homeless and near-homeless women from all over Southern California come here looking for help for a range of problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We serve about 4,000 women a year and it’s very fairly infrequent that we see them reunify. It’s really probably only about five a year,” said chief program officer Erika Hartman, who betrays in her voice a certain exhaustion at the very idea of what sounds like a much desired fairy-tale ending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Robin Burton, founder of the Facebook group Missing & Homeless']‘I was very, very angry at God. How could you send me a picture after 20 years? How could I go out there and not find her? And it wasn’t until I came home and I realized I’m not alone. There are other families just like me.’[/pullquote]“Usually, at the point that they have come to skid row, they have really run out of other connections that they can turn to. Sometimes, it’s because they’ve really exhausted their relationships with people who are trying support them. Or who have set boundaries due to substance use. Lots of women report experiencing shame about homelessness,” Hartman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with help, three weeks passed with no sign of Cloudia. Some people told Burton they believed Cloudia must be dead. Whatever the case, Burton needed to go back home and get back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spring, Burton started a Facebook group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MissingHomelessOrg/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Missing & Homeless\u003c/a>. The concept is simple: post a person’s story, with enough details and photos, in the hopes somebody in the group will recognize that missing person and help put them in touch with the family looking for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not a piece of garbage, you know. They’re somebody’s mother. They’re somebody son. They’re somebody’s sister.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 742px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11764316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/1485734303999.jpeg\" alt=\"One of numerous posters Robin Burton has drawn up over the years in the search for her mother, believed to be homeless somewhere in California.\" width=\"742\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/1485734303999.jpeg 742w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/1485734303999-160x207.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of numerous posters Robin Burton has drawn up over the years in the search for her mother, believed to be homeless somewhere in California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robin Burton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An Education in Finding People\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Robin said she functions like a reporter when a family contacts her for help. She presses them for more information. Where, exactly, did the person go missing? Are there any distinguishing characteristics, like eye color or tattoos? Do they suffer from mental illness or addiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details make it easier to find somebody, but they also emotionally engage the Facebook group members. As opposed to say, some generic post about a Jane Doe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no idea when I started ‘Missing & Homeless’ what it was going to become, and how many followers and supporters that we were gonna have. Then we started finding people. Four years later, we have probably found 70 or 80 people,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out a lot of the group’s 63,000 members are homeless themselves, typically logging into Facebook at public libraries — in part because they don’t have any barriers precluding them from getting involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='homelessness' label='More on Homelessness']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton has had a number of frustrating conversations with health care providers and social service workers who won’t say boo about someone who friends and family are searching for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can walk into a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen and they will not tell you if they’re there. My mom could be in the same building as me and I would never even know it. It’s heartbreaking, whenever you have a family member that is missing and living homeless, the lack of help that you get because of it,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a very big reason why most social workers and health care providers would not tell Robin if her mom was in a particular building. It’s against federal law, specifically, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996\u003c/a>. HIPAA, as most people call it, has a provision that protects the privacy of individuals’ medical records, including the fact of a person’s presence in a facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartman of the Downtown Women’s Center explained staff are happy to take a message and pass it on. But it’s the homeless person’s choice whether to connect. Always. In part, because they can’t presume the best about people who say they’re searching for a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have women who have been trafficked or abused or exploited by family members,” Hartman said. “Many of them don’t list an emergency contact. We have women who pass and we don’t know how to find a next of kin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, many of these women have good reasons they don’t want to be found. Burton gets that. She’s also seen enough to know some people are just too far gone into the abyss of mental illness, or addiction, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a lady that was looking for her son that was schizophrenic, and he was found after, after five or six years, and she didn’t recognize him at first. You know, because the streets weather you. You change drastically. He didn’t recognize her either, and he said, ‘You’re not my mom.’ He’s missing again,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, we’ve been presuming that the right homeless person has been correctly identified. Sometimes, people eager to help say they’ve seen someone they actually haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It happened to Burton, just weeks after she returned home from skid row that first time. A volunteer from the Downtown Women’s Center called Burton to say Cloudia was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton bought a plane ticket. She was sitting on that plane ahead of takeoff, when she got another call saying the volunteer was mistaken. The timing was such that Burton flew to L.A. and back: an expensive, useless and emotionally painful trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that wouldn’t stop Burton from recommending families make every effort to file missing person reports, and take all the other recommended steps. Because the wins, when they happen, are so satisfying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11764346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A former workmate of Corey Abernathy's asked his parents for permission to post this on the Facebook group "Missing & Homeless." That's how a housemate of Abernathy's in San Francisco spotted it, and told him, and he called his parents after a radio silence of two years.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-1200x779.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former workmate of Corey Abernathy asked his parents for permission to post this on the Facebook group “Missing & Homeless.” That’s how a housemate of Abernathy’s in San Francisco spotted it, and told him, and he called his parents after a radio silence of two years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Corey Abernathy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Win in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Corey Abernathy, and his parents, Cathy and Robert Abernathy, agreed to meet me on a bright, breezy day at one of his favorite haunts in San Francisco: Crissy Field. When he was homeless, Corey used to camp in the Presidio, not far from where tourists whiz by on their rented bicycles and children eat ice cream while wearing fleece jackets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just thought too much about life. I felt a lot of pressure,” Corey said. He’s 5-foot-9. About 160 pounds. Hair and beard close-cropped. His blue eyes twinkle in the sun. He looks like he’s gotten a lot of sun in recent years, but nothing that seems out of the ordinary for an athletic white man in his early 30s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey was 28 when he decided to throw on a backpack one day and leave his parents’ home in Willits in Mendocino County. With no warning, or explanation — though there were signs when the family looks back on it — that he wasn’t happy. That he was drifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember that there was like a weird amount of anxiety on me,” Abernathy said. “I always tried to make sense of everything. I put too much pressure on myself that wasn’t really there. Yeah, the way I dealt with it was just drinking a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d struggled with anxiety since childhood. He didn’t seem to have a strong idea for a career the way his older brother had. He dropped out of Sacramento State almost as soon as he got there. He lost a job in retail, then switched to a local casino. But there, he was surrounded by alcohol, and the consequences were predictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey started reading about people who dropped out of society for a different kind of life. “So it wasn’t like one single moment. It was something I was thinking about for probably like a year,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Corey got a DUI, something he was really ashamed about. He thought to himself, if he had no money, he wouldn’t be able to buy alcohol. And if he had nothing to worry about, he wouldn’t want to buy alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explained, “My car got towed and I just said, ‘I’m done.’ At the time, it was a good feeling. I don’t have to deal with problems I can’t figure out anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember, he was living with his parents at the time. And when he walked out that front door, he left no note. No explanation. His mom, Cathy, is a registered nurse. His dad, Robert, is a retired custom cabinetmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father recalled the day, “Got home and the house was empty. To me, it looked like he’d just walked out the door to go out for a walk. Everything was still in his room. Nothing disturbed. He just disappeared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They called the police and filed a missing person’s report. Only to discover the police in Mendocino County have a loose attitude about adults who disappear, given the local marijuana growing industry’s reliance on seasonal workers. In this business, pruning is called “trimming,” and many of the trimmers come and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Mendocino County, Sonoma County if a adult is missing, they’re out trimming,” Cathy said. “It was October and it was trimming season. They took the report, but they weren’t doing anything with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Robert and Cathy had to start looking on their own. Corey’s friends helped. A former workmate tacking up a poster in Ukiah met a homeless person who directed them to Fort Bragg, where Robert and Cathy found Corey in a park, about six weeks after he disappeared. But Corey wouldn’t come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t ready to see them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Corey Abernathy, building a new life for himself in San Francisco after more than three years homeless']‘I gave everything up, you know. It was like, I don’t know if I’m ever going to have a room again. I don’t know if I’m ever going to have a relationship again. I distinctively classified myself aside from society.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert described his thinking in that moment, “As much as I wanted to grab him and throw him in the car, I knew he’d be gone again. So that was the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make was to let him go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they did, and Corey kept hitchhiking, to Point Arena, Gualala and finally San Francisco — where he proceeded to bounce from sleeping rough in the Presidio to side streets and shelters, sporadically sending his parents Facebook messages from public libraries. Until he stopped doing that. The last one was in February 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt regret and guilt. I knew I was going to have to figure out a way to speak to them, and yeah, apologize,” Corey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every now and then, his parents would get a lead and take off to follow it, only to find it mistaken. Often, from somebody overcome with wishful thinking. A lot of guys on the street look like Corey. “OK, he’s here. He’s in Yuba City. He’s in Sacramento. Manteca. Denver. I mean, you name it, he was there,” Robert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks turned into months, and then years. Corey’s last messages came from San Francisco. So Robert and Cathy drove south repeatedly to scour the city’s Tenderloin on foot. “He could be on the next block over headed in the opposite direction, and we’d never know it. You know, there were days when we walked 25 miles,” Robert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night before Corey left his parents’ home in Willits, Cathy started having this recurring dream — nightmare, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, she keeps getting woken up by her nephew, Bobby, who committed suicide in 2010. It’s like he was a contact from the underworld, trying to tell her something about her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d wake me up that, ‘We gotta get going.’ I was on the hard ground. I was cold. I wasn’t safe. I had to get moving. You know, we had to get moving,” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, at some point, the nightmares abruptly stopped. Cathy had two theories about what happened to Corey. “Maybe, you know, he’s getting his life together. Or he wasn’t on this earth anymore. You know, it was one of the two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it happened, this was right around the time Corey was ready for rehab. He got involved with \u003ca href=\"https://www.aa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcoholics Anonymous\u003c/a>. He got into a sober living facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn’t reconnect with his parents. And two years passed. That’s when, early this year, one of Corey’s old workmates posted on “Missing & Homeless.” And someone Corey lives with recognized him. And told Corey. And Corey called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Robert Abernathy, whose son went missing for more than three years']‘You see the homeless. You hear about people missing family. And that’s supposed to happen to other people. It’s not supposed to happen to you. With Corey missing, I am much, much, much more aware of how it’s happening everywhere. Man, this is an epidemic.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t even remember the drive down here. You know, we sat down, and he talked about why — some of the things that made him leave. And him realizing that the DUI, everybody gets one and it’s nothing to run from, but this is something he’s been thinking about, and it’s something he needed to finish. And it’s like, he’s part of our family, and as I told him, he’s going to be my son forever, no matter what. I still love him,” Robert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Robert and Cathy come down from Willits periodically to visit Corey in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey doesn’t have a strong answer as to why he didn’t call his parents before a prompt from the acquaintance who spotted him on “Missing & Homeless.” What Corey can say is that he was ready when he got the nudge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Kind of Story Robin Burton Lives For\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“A lot of homeless are afraid to contact their family because they don’t know if they’re going to be turned away,” Burton said. “Some, you know, it’s just they’ve been gone for so long they don’t even know what to say to families anymore. Those are our miracle stories. There was a reason he was supposed to be found, and there was closure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The search for Cloudia morphed into something else for Burton. She’s found a mission, a purpose in life, as a guide for others in need. The story about Burton’s search for her mom has become an invitation for people to trust her. “The same people have probably heard it a thousand times. Well, now they’re coming to me for help and we’re finding their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say there haven’t been personal wins for Burton, too. She never knew who her father was. But this summer, she found him. She was told as a kid that her mom got pregnant at 17, and had her at 18. But her grandparents didn’t know who her father was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Burton took a DNA test and it led to Kansas and her 71- year-old dad. He doesn’t profess to remember Cloudia, but has met with Burton once already — and she’s going to Kansas soon to spend some vacation time with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton’s got a new lead for Cloudia, by the way, from someone in San Francisco who thought they saw her back in June. She would be 66 years old now. 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She brought along another TV camera crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People on the streets were not happy to see that, or her. “The very first day out there was very scary and emotional for me. I broke down crying. I had to leave. I had to leave and I had to go back to my motel and take a deep breath and re-evaluate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the motel room, Burton decided she needed to try again, in a different way. “Without the cameras, everything was so different. and it was actually the homeless that was helping me look for my mom. It was them that was telling me, ‘You know I wish I had somebody looking for me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could imagine Cloudia visiting a place like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.downtownwomenscenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Downtown Women’s Center\u003c/a>. 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It’s against federal law, specifically, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996\u003c/a>. HIPAA, as most people call it, has a provision that protects the privacy of individuals’ medical records, including the fact of a person’s presence in a facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartman of the Downtown Women’s Center explained staff are happy to take a message and pass it on. But it’s the homeless person’s choice whether to connect. Always. In part, because they can’t presume the best about people who say they’re searching for a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have women who have been trafficked or abused or exploited by family members,” Hartman said. “Many of them don’t list an emergency contact. We have women who pass and we don’t know how to find a next of kin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, many of these women have good reasons they don’t want to be found. Burton gets that. She’s also seen enough to know some people are just too far gone into the abyss of mental illness, or addiction, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a lady that was looking for her son that was schizophrenic, and he was found after, after five or six years, and she didn’t recognize him at first. You know, because the streets weather you. You change drastically. He didn’t recognize her either, and he said, ‘You’re not my mom.’ He’s missing again,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, we’ve been presuming that the right homeless person has been correctly identified. Sometimes, people eager to help say they’ve seen someone they actually haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It happened to Burton, just weeks after she returned home from skid row that first time. A volunteer from the Downtown Women’s Center called Burton to say Cloudia was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton bought a plane ticket. She was sitting on that plane ahead of takeoff, when she got another call saying the volunteer was mistaken. The timing was such that Burton flew to L.A. and back: an expensive, useless and emotionally painful trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that wouldn’t stop Burton from recommending families make every effort to file missing person reports, and take all the other recommended steps. Because the wins, when they happen, are so satisfying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11764346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A former workmate of Corey Abernathy's asked his parents for permission to post this on the Facebook group "Missing & Homeless." That's how a housemate of Abernathy's in San Francisco spotted it, and told him, and he called his parents after a radio silence of two years.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38248_Corey-qut-1200x779.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former workmate of Corey Abernathy asked his parents for permission to post this on the Facebook group “Missing & Homeless.” That’s how a housemate of Abernathy’s in San Francisco spotted it, and told him, and he called his parents after a radio silence of two years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Corey Abernathy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Win in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Corey Abernathy, and his parents, Cathy and Robert Abernathy, agreed to meet me on a bright, breezy day at one of his favorite haunts in San Francisco: Crissy Field. When he was homeless, Corey used to camp in the Presidio, not far from where tourists whiz by on their rented bicycles and children eat ice cream while wearing fleece jackets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just thought too much about life. I felt a lot of pressure,” Corey said. He’s 5-foot-9. About 160 pounds. Hair and beard close-cropped. His blue eyes twinkle in the sun. He looks like he’s gotten a lot of sun in recent years, but nothing that seems out of the ordinary for an athletic white man in his early 30s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey was 28 when he decided to throw on a backpack one day and leave his parents’ home in Willits in Mendocino County. With no warning, or explanation — though there were signs when the family looks back on it — that he wasn’t happy. That he was drifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember that there was like a weird amount of anxiety on me,” Abernathy said. “I always tried to make sense of everything. I put too much pressure on myself that wasn’t really there. Yeah, the way I dealt with it was just drinking a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d struggled with anxiety since childhood. He didn’t seem to have a strong idea for a career the way his older brother had. He dropped out of Sacramento State almost as soon as he got there. He lost a job in retail, then switched to a local casino. But there, he was surrounded by alcohol, and the consequences were predictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey started reading about people who dropped out of society for a different kind of life. “So it wasn’t like one single moment. It was something I was thinking about for probably like a year,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Corey got a DUI, something he was really ashamed about. He thought to himself, if he had no money, he wouldn’t be able to buy alcohol. And if he had nothing to worry about, he wouldn’t want to buy alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explained, “My car got towed and I just said, ‘I’m done.’ At the time, it was a good feeling. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thinking about volunteering or donating over the holidays?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Bay Area nonprofit food banks and service providers see a massive influx of giving in November and December. But relying on such a short time window for the brunt of their contributions makes a lot of food banks nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='bayareabites_103790' label='Where to Volunteer or Donate']The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, for instance, says it needs to raise 37% of its annual budget between now and the end of December, and as of right now some of the fundraising channels it relies on for that are lagging, said spokeswoman Pamela Wellner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, the holiday giving campaign typically covers about half of the annual operating budget — but that can be particularly stressful and “nerve-wracking,” said spokeswoman Diane Baker Hayward. Even though most contributions come at the end of the year, the food bank is dependent on year-round resources to accommodate its clientele, she noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, she said, donations are about $100,000 behind where they were at this point last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Alameda County Community Food Bank, these next few weeks “are as critical as I’ve experienced in my time here,” said Michael Altfest, its community engagement director. The food bank needs to raise $4.9 million by the end of the year, and entered November $230,000 already short of its goal for the previous quarter, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Altfest added, the pace is starting to pick up and the last few weeks have been encouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have our noses to the grindstone making sure we emerge from the holidays with the resources we need,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area food banks have been squeezed in recent years by a combination of factors: Local donors are more often choosing to give to fire relief funds after the spate of fires across Northern California, and food banks are experiencing increased demand, as housing prices and homelessness continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last quarter, Second Harvest served 10,000 people more than the same quarter in the previous year, with food distribution up by 17%, Hayward said. And during the recent power shutoffs, scores of people whose food spoiled without refrigeration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788115/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were forced to turn\u003c/a> to food banks for assistance. The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank said they distributed about 10,000 pounds of non-perishable food to evacuees and community resource centers during the four days around the Kincade Fire. The food bank also plans to work with PG&E to supply its community resource centers during future power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other possible challenge, said Altfest, is the new federal tax law that went into effect last year and changed deduction rates for charitable contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we knew at the time it passed that the change in standard deductions would have an effect, this last tax year was the first year people saw how it affected their taxes,” he said, which may be affecting how much they’re donating. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='bayareabites_110356' label='Where to Get Meals or Assistance']If you’re looking to give, money goes farther than food donations, according to officials, because of arrangements most have with suppliers that allow them to purchase food at low cost. According to Second Harvest, $10 can help provide 20 meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most food banks, though, can accommodate bulk food donations from restaurants or large quantities of certain types of leftovers from holiday parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, don’t forget that volunteers are still very much needed after the holidays. In fact, volunteer slots at many well-known nonprofits fill up in advance of Thanksgiving, but then find themselves short-staffed come February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/103790/your-bay-area-guide-to-holiday-volunteering-and-donations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a complete list of places to donate or volunteer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for assistance with food or other types of aid, call 1-800-984-FOOD. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/110356/where-homeless-people-can-get-free-meals-in-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see our list\u003c/a> of places that offer free meals in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Polly Stryker contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmfoodbank.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF-Marin Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sfmfoodbank?ref=nf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF-Marin Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFMFoodBank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SFMFoodBank\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin and San Francisco’s food banks merged a number of years ago to become the SF-Marin Food Bank, which now serves roughly 107,000 meals daily. The donations it collects in November and December make up close to half of its yearly operating budget. The food bank also typically collects thousands of pounds of non-perishable food at this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Anthony Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/stanthonysf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Anthony Foundation\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/stanthonysf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@stanthonysf\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The St. Anthony dining room serves 3,000 meals every day of the year. It also offers a number of support services, including medical assistance and a food pantry for homeless and low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.glide.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Glide Memorial Church\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Glide-Memorial-Church/112256452119873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glide Memorial Church\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/glidesf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@glidesf\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glide’s mission is to welcome everyone into their community and help those in need, whomever they may be. That happens through a \u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org/volunteer/\">number of programs\u003c/a>, including a daily meal serves that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner (as well as special holiday meals).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>East Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.accfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/alcofoodbank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ACCFB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ACCFB\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food bank provides food to over 240 agencies around the East Bay through its distribution network. It also operates an emergency food hotline, as well as outreach and educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodbankccs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/foodbankccs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/foodbankccs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@foodbankccs\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food bank delivers food both directly to people in need and to partner nonprofit agencies that help with distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>North Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vinnies.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/vinniesmarin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/vinniesmarin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@vinniesmarin\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Vincent’s Marin chapter is an independently run provider, exclusively serving Marin County. The chapter provides a number of resources and services for those in need, including a dining room that serves daily free meals and low-income housing assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.refb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood Empire Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Redwood-Empire-Food-Bank-115482921809001/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood Empire Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/refb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@refb\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redwood Empire Food Bank distributes nearly 15 million pounds of food annually to Sonoma County residents through its pantry, emergency food program and grocery box service for seniors and kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>South Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Harvest of Santa Clara and San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/2ndharvest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Harvest Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/2ndharvest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@2ndharvest\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1974, Second Harvest has been distributing food to low-income residents of San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. It now hands out 1 million pounds of food every week, half of it fresh produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, for instance, says it needs to raise 37% of its annual budget between now and the end of December, and as of right now some of the fundraising channels it relies on for that are lagging, said spokeswoman Pamela Wellner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, the holiday giving campaign typically covers about half of the annual operating budget — but that can be particularly stressful and “nerve-wracking,” said spokeswoman Diane Baker Hayward. Even though most contributions come at the end of the year, the food bank is dependent on year-round resources to accommodate its clientele, she noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, she said, donations are about $100,000 behind where they were at this point last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Alameda County Community Food Bank, these next few weeks “are as critical as I’ve experienced in my time here,” said Michael Altfest, its community engagement director. The food bank needs to raise $4.9 million by the end of the year, and entered November $230,000 already short of its goal for the previous quarter, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Altfest added, the pace is starting to pick up and the last few weeks have been encouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have our noses to the grindstone making sure we emerge from the holidays with the resources we need,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area food banks have been squeezed in recent years by a combination of factors: Local donors are more often choosing to give to fire relief funds after the spate of fires across Northern California, and food banks are experiencing increased demand, as housing prices and homelessness continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last quarter, Second Harvest served 10,000 people more than the same quarter in the previous year, with food distribution up by 17%, Hayward said. And during the recent power shutoffs, scores of people whose food spoiled without refrigeration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788115/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were forced to turn\u003c/a> to food banks for assistance. The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank said they distributed about 10,000 pounds of non-perishable food to evacuees and community resource centers during the four days around the Kincade Fire. The food bank also plans to work with PG&E to supply its community resource centers during future power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other possible challenge, said Altfest, is the new federal tax law that went into effect last year and changed deduction rates for charitable contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we knew at the time it passed that the change in standard deductions would have an effect, this last tax year was the first year people saw how it affected their taxes,” he said, which may be affecting how much they’re donating. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If you’re looking to give, money goes farther than food donations, according to officials, because of arrangements most have with suppliers that allow them to purchase food at low cost. According to Second Harvest, $10 can help provide 20 meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most food banks, though, can accommodate bulk food donations from restaurants or large quantities of certain types of leftovers from holiday parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, don’t forget that volunteers are still very much needed after the holidays. In fact, volunteer slots at many well-known nonprofits fill up in advance of Thanksgiving, but then find themselves short-staffed come February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/103790/your-bay-area-guide-to-holiday-volunteering-and-donations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a complete list of places to donate or volunteer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for assistance with food or other types of aid, call 1-800-984-FOOD. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/110356/where-homeless-people-can-get-free-meals-in-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see our list\u003c/a> of places that offer free meals in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Polly Stryker contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The food bank also typically collects thousands of pounds of non-perishable food at this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Anthony Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/stanthonysf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Anthony Foundation\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/stanthonysf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@stanthonysf\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The St. Anthony dining room serves 3,000 meals every day of the year. 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That’s just the way it’s going to be,” said Hugh Ray, a bankruptcy attorney and principal at the law firm McKool Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recovery has been particularly hard for Camp Fire survivors because many in their safety nets also lost everything. Christina Taft, who lived with her mother before the fire, says she’s relying on charity after the fire killed her mother and destroyed the home they shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still trying to get a job and I still have stuff in storage and I’m not economically stable,” Taft said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its bankruptcy plan, PG&E has pledged to pay $8.4 billion to wildfire victims and an additional \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11774069/pge-insurance-companies-strike-11-billion-deal-to-settle-wildfire-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$11 billion to compensate insurance companies for their payouts\u003c/a>. 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At this point I don’t see the money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating matters, debts that PG&E incurred after the company filed for bankruptcy protection are supposed to be treated as a higher priority than those incurred before bankruptcy, experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without bankruptcy law that enables companies to continue operating after filing, no one would be willing to lend to the company or provide equipment, for fear of not getting paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means victims of blazes —\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> such as the one last month in Sonoma County\u003c/a> that destroyed 374 structures and forced 200,000 people to evacuate — are supposed to be paid before victims of earlier fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make sense to me,” Taft said. “You’d think it would be based on what’s oldest, and obviously the Paradise fire was the most destructive. 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They spent the next 110 days moving from one hotel to the next as they figured out how to rebuild. An insurance settlement covered the value of her home and its contents, but it wasn’t enough to buy again in the area, where home prices were skyrocketing. She and her husband eventually bought a fixer-upper that needed extensive work while her husband undergoes dialysis treatments three times a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel cheated, of course,” Kennedy said. “Everyone considered their loss as a great loss, and that it shouldn’t be diminished, but I also know reality. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pacific Gas & Electric turned off power to Ana Patricia Rios’ neighborhood in Sonoma County for eight days in October, three at the beginning of the month and five near the end. The mother of three young boys watched twice as nearly all of the food in her refrigerator spoiled. She threw out at least $500 worth of meat, fruit, vegetables, salsas and other food that would have supplied her family with months of meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big impact because we need the food that we lost,” Rios said in Spanish, two days after the lights finally came back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11784017']Similar losses occurred throughout Rios’ wooded, hilly neighborhood, which is mostly home to Hispanic families. Many are vineyard and hospitality workers, and sometimes several families share a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse, last weekend, Rios received a PG&E alert that her family might be plunged into the dark once again this week. She decided to cook the one package of meat in her freezer, which is now mostly empty to avoid another colossal loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the electricity doesn’t arrive,” she said, “the bills do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters1-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788117\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-800x544.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1200x817.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1920x1307.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Patricia Rios picked up food and volunteered at a food distribution at her children’s school in Sonoma County after she lost at least $500 of food during the outages. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across California, low-income households like the Rios family faced hunger and financial crisis as the food in their refrigerators spoiled during October’s unprecedented, deliberate blackouts. Utility companies shut down the power in certain fire-prone communities during windy, dry conditions to reduce the risk of an electric line sparking a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inconvenience for many, losing hundreds of dollars of food was an economic disaster for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many of the areas that lost power, such as parts of Marin County and the Napa Valley, tend to be wealthier than the rest of the state, tens of thousands of the affected households live on extremely tight budgets, according to a CalMatters analysis of census tracts touched by PG&E’s power outage that began on Oct. 26 and in some cases lasted through Oct. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters’ analysis found that one in 10 residents and one in eight children in the affected census tracts live below the federal poverty level, which is $25,750 of annual income for a family of four. The estimates are based on PG&E’s maps of the approximate areas affected by the shutoffs and averaged data from the 2013 through 2017 annual American Community Survey conducted by the Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='power-shutoffs' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge_power-shutoffs_bay-area_sonoma-qut-1020x680.jpg' label='The Power Shutoffs']Several very poor communities lost power. In some of the sections of Vallejo, San Pablo, Berkeley, San Rafael, Santa Cruz, Clearlake, Redding, Arcata and Sonora where the lights went out, more than a third of the people live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, people who were unable to replace their spoiled food faced immediate hunger. Many relied on local food banks, some of which lost their own power and had to throw out their food. Some schools had to shut down, so families like the Rioses had to feed children who usually eat free and reduced-price school meals. And many scrambled to pull together the November rent while also refilling their fridges. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-11/pge-power-outage-darkness-stress-debt-vulnerable?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=22d095aee4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-22d095aee4-84307433\">elderly\u003c/a>, ill and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-25/problems-disabled-help-power-outages?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=22d095aee4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-22d095aee4-84307433\">disabled\u003c/a> struggled the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shutoffs not only taxed our network but deepened hunger among those already food insecure,” Andrew Cheyne, director of government affairs at the California Association of Food Banks, said in a state Senate committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/calendar?startdate=11-18-2019&enddate=11-18-2019\">hearing\u003c/a> on Monday. “We cannot be there for everyone in need, and Californians are not refilling those refrigerators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of hunger triggered by outages continues. On Wednesday morning, PG&E shut off power to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191120_nov_20_psps_update_improved_weather_conditions_reduce_scope_of_psps_event_power_turned_off_for_safety_to_a_total_of_approximately_50000_customers_in_11_counties\">50,000 customers\u003c/a> in 11 Northern California counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poverty level of areas affected by PG&E’s Oct. 26 planned blackouts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=cf4649f10fc3486290e45c55bd7264da&extent=-128.6245,32.4662,-112.7932,42.0028&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&details=true&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=cf4649f10fc3486290e45c55bd7264da&extent=-128.6245,32.4662,-112.7932,42.0028&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&details=true&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View larger map\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will families be reimbursed?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rios was one of more than 2.7 million Californians who lost power during October’s deliberate power outages. PG&E was responsible for most, while Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) each blacked out tens of thousands of customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 480,000 people, including 120,000 children and 81,000 seniors, live in poverty in the affected census tracts. However, that’s an overestimate of the number of poor people who actually lost power, given that many census tracts reach far beyond shutoff zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wildfire risk persists, how utility companies will protect low-income customers from hunger and financial crisis is an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='left' citation='Gov. Gavin Newsom']'We cannot continue to incur the economic losses, the potential health and human costs associated with these power shutoffs.'[/pullquote] Gov. Gavin Newsom called the planned outages “unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot continue to incur the economic losses, the potential health and human costs associated with these power shutoffs,” Newsom told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowing to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/14/governor-newsom-demands-pge-accountability-for-mismanaged-public-safety-power-shutoffs/\">demand\u003c/a> from Newsom, PG&E agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/29/pge-statement-on-oct-9-public-safety-power-shutoff-customer-bill-credit/\">provide a one-time rebate\u003c/a> of $100 for households and $250 for businesses affected by the first wave of outages that begin Oct. 9, plunging roughly 738,000 customers into darkness with limited notice and bungled communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But will it meet the losses? In many cases it will not,” Newsom told CalMatters. “And that’s why it’s still inadequate. It was the least they could do under the circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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They hadn’t celebrated anything yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell the kids, no, right now buying a costume is not a necessity. It’s first being able to buy food,” Rios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Rios’ job coordinating adult-ed classes and her husband’s job as a gardener, they usually bring in about $3,500 each month. That means they earn $1,000 above the federal poverty level for a family of five. Nevertheless, Rios said it’s a struggle to pull together the money for rent — which consumes nearly half of their income — and for food and monthly bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='left' citation='Maite Iturri, El Verano Elementary School principal']'The impact it has with people who are disenfranchised or marginalized to begin with is much greater than (for) families who are like, 'Oh OK, well I’m going to go to Tahoe for the weekend.' These people aren’t going to Tahoe.'[/pullquote]Plus, Rios had missed eight days of work due to the outages. Her husband lost four days of work because of the smoke from the Kincade Fire 40 miles north, which may have been \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/kincade-fire-origin/\">sparked by PG&E equipment\u003c/a>, despite the planned outages. Rios has relied heavily on food bank distributions to feed her family since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day at the El Verano Elementary School, nearly 250 families lined up to replace the food they had lost, filling boxes with potatoes, onions, milk, cheese, eggs and bread trucked in by the Redwood Empire Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve lost all of the foods in their homes because our families can’t afford to buy generators to keep their refrigerators running all night,” said Maite Iturri, the school’s principal. “You end up with some pretty serious situations that are hard for people to recover from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iturri said that 86% of students receive free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch at the school, but the meals were not available during the outages because the school was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact it has with people who are disenfranchised or marginalized to begin with is much greater than (for) families who are like, ‘Oh OK, well I’m going to go to Tahoe for the weekend,’” Iturri said. “These people aren’t going to Tahoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788122\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families whose food spoiled during the outages pick up fresh produce from a food bank distribution at El Verano Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Sonoma’s reputation as a luxe destination for well-to-do wine lovers, nearly one in three county residents, or about 60,000 households, couldn’t afford three healthy meals a day last year, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only about 16,000 households receive food stamps. That means Sonoma County’s main tool for fighting hunger caused by the outages — providing replacement benefits to families on food stamps who had to throw away food — only goes so far. Over 3,000 county residents have claimed replacement food stamps to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, more than 49,000 households received an automatic replacement of food stamp benefits after PG&E’s Oct. 9 outage, amounting to $5,730,774\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>Counties are continuing to accept requests for replacement food stamp benefits from households affected by later outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Chavez, Sonoma County assistant director of human services, lost everything in his own refrigerator during the outages. His wife and four sons drove five hours south to stay with family in Bakersfield, while he stayed to work the county evacuation shelters for the Kincade Fire. He bought most of his meals at restaurants and invested in a generator to keep warm at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he knows that many Sonoma families couldn’t afford those surprise expenses. Chavez said he was particularly worried about undocumented families, who often don’t qualify for or are reluctant to access safety net benefits and disaster relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is perhaps a new reality for us, the potential of power shutoffs with greater frequency, so I think we’ll want to really think about how we can provide additional safeguards or supports for vulnerable populations,” Chavez said. “We have a lot to learn. This is new territory for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Food banks hit hard, too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In response to the strains of the outages and other emergencies, the California Association of Food Banks has requested a one-time state investment of $32 million to fund backup power and emergency supply for food banks, said Cheyne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood Empire Food Bank distributed about 300,000 pounds of food to 25,000 people affected by the fire and outages across Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties as of Nov. 8. The San Diego Food Bank distributed $50,000 in cash cards to affected families. In Shasta County, the food bank saw a 34% spike in food demand in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt County, the Food for People food bank lost power twice last month for a total of four days, said Executive Director Anne Holcomb.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>It serves about 10% of the roughly 136,000 residents of Humboldt County, where one in five people live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With almost no advance notice before the first 24-hour outage on Oct. 9, the food bank was able to load most perishables into refrigerated trucks, but had to throw out 60 pounds of meat and nearly 3,000 eggs, Holcomb said. That first round of outages, though shorter, led to the largest losses, because many of the county’s poorest residents had just done a big food shop after receiving their food stamps or Social Security checks on the first of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11779299']“Particularly if you’re already living close to the edge financially, if you just bought $30 or $40 worth of groceries and it goes bad, that’s a significant loss,” Holcomb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether utilities violated regulations by failing to properly notify customers of the outages is the focus of an \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M319/K527/319527577.PDF\">investigation that the California Public Utilities Commission opened last week. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one way (the utilities) can prevent food loss is letting customers know in advance,” said Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves. “It’s clear that there’s been an impact here that could have been reduced from my perspective if there had been proper noticing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eating the food during the outages could make people sick because bacteria can build up without refrigeration. During an outage, most food will stay cold for no more than four hours in a refrigerator and two days in a freezer, according to federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/d3506874-2867-4190-a941-d511d3fcae71/Keep_Your_Food_Safe_During_Emergencies.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\">guidelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s very hard for people to have to sacrifice all this food,” said Linda Harris, a food microbiologist at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequences of eating spoiled food include vomiting and diarrhea. “If you think that there’s a risk, then throwing it away is the safest thing to do,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the next blackout\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rios said she changed the way she shops. “I learned to no longer buy in volume.” It’s more expensive to shop every few days, especially because she generally drives about an hour to find the best prices. But her family can’t afford to empty out a full freezer again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788124\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1200x913.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1920x1461.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Patricia Rios puts away folding tables after volunteering at a food distribution for families like hers that were affected by the power outages. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having lived through the terror-filled evacuations of the North Bay fires two years earlier, she understands why utilities cut power to prevent wildfire. But she doubts whether PG&E had taken into account how families are affected and whether the shutoffs actually work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think if it’s for your safety, to prevent a bigger disaster, that’s good,” said Rios. “At the same time, it doesn’t make sense because we see that the accidents keep happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jackie Botts is a journalist at CalMatters. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Similar losses occurred throughout Rios’ wooded, hilly neighborhood, which is mostly home to Hispanic families. Many are vineyard and hospitality workers, and sometimes several families share a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse, last weekend, Rios received a PG&E alert that her family might be plunged into the dark once again this week. She decided to cook the one package of meat in her freezer, which is now mostly empty to avoid another colossal loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the electricity doesn’t arrive,” she said, “the bills do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters1-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788117\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-800x544.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1200x817.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1920x1307.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Patricia Rios picked up food and volunteered at a food distribution at her children’s school in Sonoma County after she lost at least $500 of food during the outages. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across California, low-income households like the Rios family faced hunger and financial crisis as the food in their refrigerators spoiled during October’s unprecedented, deliberate blackouts. Utility companies shut down the power in certain fire-prone communities during windy, dry conditions to reduce the risk of an electric line sparking a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Several very poor communities lost power. In some of the sections of Vallejo, San Pablo, Berkeley, San Rafael, Santa Cruz, Clearlake, Redding, Arcata and Sonora where the lights went out, more than a third of the people live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, people who were unable to replace their spoiled food faced immediate hunger. Many relied on local food banks, some of which lost their own power and had to throw out their food. Some schools had to shut down, so families like the Rioses had to feed children who usually eat free and reduced-price school meals. And many scrambled to pull together the November rent while also refilling their fridges. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-11/pge-power-outage-darkness-stress-debt-vulnerable?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=22d095aee4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-22d095aee4-84307433\">elderly\u003c/a>, ill and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-25/problems-disabled-help-power-outages?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=22d095aee4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-22d095aee4-84307433\">disabled\u003c/a> struggled the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shutoffs not only taxed our network but deepened hunger among those already food insecure,” Andrew Cheyne, director of government affairs at the California Association of Food Banks, said in a state Senate committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/calendar?startdate=11-18-2019&enddate=11-18-2019\">hearing\u003c/a> on Monday. “We cannot be there for everyone in need, and Californians are not refilling those refrigerators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of hunger triggered by outages continues. On Wednesday morning, PG&E shut off power to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191120_nov_20_psps_update_improved_weather_conditions_reduce_scope_of_psps_event_power_turned_off_for_safety_to_a_total_of_approximately_50000_customers_in_11_counties\">50,000 customers\u003c/a> in 11 Northern California counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poverty level of areas affected by PG&E’s Oct. 26 planned blackouts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=cf4649f10fc3486290e45c55bd7264da&extent=-128.6245,32.4662,-112.7932,42.0028&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&details=true&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=cf4649f10fc3486290e45c55bd7264da&extent=-128.6245,32.4662,-112.7932,42.0028&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&details=true&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View larger map\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will families be reimbursed?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rios was one of more than 2.7 million Californians who lost power during October’s deliberate power outages. PG&E was responsible for most, while Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) each blacked out tens of thousands of customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 480,000 people, including 120,000 children and 81,000 seniors, live in poverty in the affected census tracts. However, that’s an overestimate of the number of poor people who actually lost power, given that many census tracts reach far beyond shutoff zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wildfire risk persists, how utility companies will protect low-income customers from hunger and financial crisis is an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Gov. Gavin Newsom called the planned outages “unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot continue to incur the economic losses, the potential health and human costs associated with these power shutoffs,” Newsom told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowing to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/14/governor-newsom-demands-pge-accountability-for-mismanaged-public-safety-power-shutoffs/\">demand\u003c/a> from Newsom, PG&E agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/29/pge-statement-on-oct-9-public-safety-power-shutoff-customer-bill-credit/\">provide a one-time rebate\u003c/a> of $100 for households and $250 for businesses affected by the first wave of outages that begin Oct. 9, plunging roughly 738,000 customers into darkness with limited notice and bungled communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But will it meet the losses? In many cases it will not,” Newsom told CalMatters. “And that’s why it’s still inadequate. It was the least they could do under the circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, has introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB378\">bill\u003c/a> that would require utilities to reimburse customers for the costs they accrued during planned outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788120\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788120\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11788120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1920x1321.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson answers questions before the California Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, along with the warning about this week’s planned shutoff, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191117_pge_monitoring_a_mid-week_potentially_strong_offshore_wind_event\">announced\u003c/a> it would donate $2 million to nonprofits that provide food, water, shelter and other services to “low-income children and families, communities of color, seniors, and tribal members” during disasters and planned outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most vulnerable among us, those who depend on life-sustaining medical equipment or cannot afford to replace lost food, losing power for an extended period can come with considerable fear and safety risks,” said PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson in prepared remarks at Monday’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working to narrow the scope and duration of future safety shutoffs and minimizing their customer impact as much as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Families struggle to find food\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two days after the lights came back on, Rios’ family spent Día de Los Muertos — the day after Halloween and her son’s 12th birthday — volunteering at a food distribution at her children’s school in El Verano, an unincorporated community in Sonoma County. They hadn’t celebrated anything yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell the kids, no, right now buying a costume is not a necessity. It’s first being able to buy food,” Rios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Rios’ job coordinating adult-ed classes and her husband’s job as a gardener, they usually bring in about $3,500 each month. That means they earn $1,000 above the federal poverty level for a family of five. Nevertheless, Rios said it’s a struggle to pull together the money for rent — which consumes nearly half of their income — and for food and monthly bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Plus, Rios had missed eight days of work due to the outages. Her husband lost four days of work because of the smoke from the Kincade Fire 40 miles north, which may have been \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/kincade-fire-origin/\">sparked by PG&E equipment\u003c/a>, despite the planned outages. Rios has relied heavily on food bank distributions to feed her family since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day at the El Verano Elementary School, nearly 250 families lined up to replace the food they had lost, filling boxes with potatoes, onions, milk, cheese, eggs and bread trucked in by the Redwood Empire Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve lost all of the foods in their homes because our families can’t afford to buy generators to keep their refrigerators running all night,” said Maite Iturri, the school’s principal. “You end up with some pretty serious situations that are hard for people to recover from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iturri said that 86% of students receive free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch at the school, but the meals were not available during the outages because the school was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact it has with people who are disenfranchised or marginalized to begin with is much greater than (for) families who are like, ‘Oh OK, well I’m going to go to Tahoe for the weekend,’” Iturri said. “These people aren’t going to Tahoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788122\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families whose food spoiled during the outages pick up fresh produce from a food bank distribution at El Verano Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Sonoma’s reputation as a luxe destination for well-to-do wine lovers, nearly one in three county residents, or about 60,000 households, couldn’t afford three healthy meals a day last year, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only about 16,000 households receive food stamps. That means Sonoma County’s main tool for fighting hunger caused by the outages — providing replacement benefits to families on food stamps who had to throw away food — only goes so far. Over 3,000 county residents have claimed replacement food stamps to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, more than 49,000 households received an automatic replacement of food stamp benefits after PG&E’s Oct. 9 outage, amounting to $5,730,774\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>Counties are continuing to accept requests for replacement food stamp benefits from households affected by later outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Chavez, Sonoma County assistant director of human services, lost everything in his own refrigerator during the outages. His wife and four sons drove five hours south to stay with family in Bakersfield, while he stayed to work the county evacuation shelters for the Kincade Fire. He bought most of his meals at restaurants and invested in a generator to keep warm at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he knows that many Sonoma families couldn’t afford those surprise expenses. Chavez said he was particularly worried about undocumented families, who often don’t qualify for or are reluctant to access safety net benefits and disaster relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is perhaps a new reality for us, the potential of power shutoffs with greater frequency, so I think we’ll want to really think about how we can provide additional safeguards or supports for vulnerable populations,” Chavez said. “We have a lot to learn. This is new territory for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Food banks hit hard, too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In response to the strains of the outages and other emergencies, the California Association of Food Banks has requested a one-time state investment of $32 million to fund backup power and emergency supply for food banks, said Cheyne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood Empire Food Bank distributed about 300,000 pounds of food to 25,000 people affected by the fire and outages across Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties as of Nov. 8. The San Diego Food Bank distributed $50,000 in cash cards to affected families. In Shasta County, the food bank saw a 34% spike in food demand in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt County, the Food for People food bank lost power twice last month for a total of four days, said Executive Director Anne Holcomb.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>It serves about 10% of the roughly 136,000 residents of Humboldt County, where one in five people live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With almost no advance notice before the first 24-hour outage on Oct. 9, the food bank was able to load most perishables into refrigerated trucks, but had to throw out 60 pounds of meat and nearly 3,000 eggs, Holcomb said. That first round of outages, though shorter, led to the largest losses, because many of the county’s poorest residents had just done a big food shop after receiving their food stamps or Social Security checks on the first of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Particularly if you’re already living close to the edge financially, if you just bought $30 or $40 worth of groceries and it goes bad, that’s a significant loss,” Holcomb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether utilities violated regulations by failing to properly notify customers of the outages is the focus of an \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M319/K527/319527577.PDF\">investigation that the California Public Utilities Commission opened last week. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one way (the utilities) can prevent food loss is letting customers know in advance,” said Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves. “It’s clear that there’s been an impact here that could have been reduced from my perspective if there had been proper noticing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eating the food during the outages could make people sick because bacteria can build up without refrigeration. During an outage, most food will stay cold for no more than four hours in a refrigerator and two days in a freezer, according to federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/d3506874-2867-4190-a941-d511d3fcae71/Keep_Your_Food_Safe_During_Emergencies.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\">guidelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s very hard for people to have to sacrifice all this food,” said Linda Harris, a food microbiologist at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequences of eating spoiled food include vomiting and diarrhea. “If you think that there’s a risk, then throwing it away is the safest thing to do,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the next blackout\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rios said she changed the way she shops. “I learned to no longer buy in volume.” It’s more expensive to shop every few days, especially because she generally drives about an hour to find the best prices. But her family can’t afford to empty out a full freezer again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788124\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1200x913.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1920x1461.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Patricia Rios puts away folding tables after volunteering at a food distribution for families like hers that were affected by the power outages. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having lived through the terror-filled evacuations of the North Bay fires two years earlier, she understands why utilities cut power to prevent wildfire. But she doubts whether PG&E had taken into account how families are affected and whether the shutoffs actually work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think if it’s for your safety, to prevent a bigger disaster, that’s good,” said Rios. “At the same time, it doesn’t make sense because we see that the accidents keep happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jackie Botts is a journalist at CalMatters. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With each passing year, more and more companies — and governments— are tracking us for a wide range of reasons. Not surprisingly, six in 10 U.S. adults \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/how-americans-think-about-privacy-and-the-vulnerability-of-their-personal-data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed last June\u003c/a> reported feeling like they’re being watched all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are not convinced that the benefits of tracking outweigh the risks of tracking, and they are feeling that they don’t have very much control over what is happening to them,” said Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The online survey of 4,272 people also found that distress over the lack of data privacy is bi-partisan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There aren’t dramatic differences between Republicans and Democrats,” Rainie said. “That’s a big story in a time when much of the rest of culture and politics has become polarized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11787014\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1150\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1.jpg 1150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-800x462.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-1020x589.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Pew Research Center survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pew Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, there is widespread disagreement about how government could or should address the problem. This survey did not ask about specific regulatory responses ranging from the conceptual, like establishing a \u003ca href=\"https://eshoo.house.gov/news-stories/press-releases/eshoo-lofgren-introduce-the-online-privacy-act/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new federal agency\u003c/a> proposed by Silicon Valley Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren and Anna Eshoo, to the already enacted, like the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> that takes effect Jan. 1, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventy percent of those polled said they believe their data is less secure than it was five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, this data shows that Americans are anxious for more to be done and more clarity to be established in how data is captured and used. Yet, the hard, gritty details are something that partisans can fight about,” Rainie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But, if you give them a choice, do you think it would mostly be a better solution to have more technology tools or other initiatives in your own hands? Or, do you think to have the government be more empowered to do things? Fifty-five percent said they would rather have the tools,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1142px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11787015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2.jpg 1142w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2-800x807.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2-1020x1029.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Pew survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pew Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research for the Pew Research Center']‘It’s one of the big paradoxes of American life, that Americans say they are very interested in being private, and being in control of their own identities, and yet in their day-to-day lives, they don’t necessarily act as if privacy matters most to them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s even though 79% of people surveyed are not confident companies will take responsibility for misusing consumers’ data, and three out of four Americans told Pew they are not confident that companies’ mistakes will be held accountable by the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s top privacy watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, established a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763073/ftc-to-hold-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-liable-for-any-future-privacy-violations\">$5 billion settlement\u003c/a> with Facebook earlier this year over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713801/facebooks-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cambridge Analytica scandal\u003c/a>, as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11772159/google-youtube-to-pay-170-million-penalty-over-collecting-kids-personal-info\">$170 million settlement\u003c/a> with Google and YouTube over collecting the personal information of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say the federal government isn’t doing enough, including some within the federal government. Rohit Chopra and Rebecca Slaughter, both Democratic appointments to the FTC, have said the Facebook settlement in particular should have held company executives personally liable. No federal data privacy legislation has managed to garner enough bi-partisan support to make it to the President’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 892px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11787017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4.jpg\" alt=\"From a Pew survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points.\" width=\"892\" height=\"1090\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4.jpg 892w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4-160x196.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4-800x978.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Pew survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. 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