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"content": "\u003cp>It was way easier for candidate Gavin Newsom to endorse \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/single-payer-health-care-what-californians-need-to-know/\">single-payer health care coverage\u003c/a> for everyone than it is now for Gov. Newsom to deliver it. Yet hardcore advocates say they’re pleased with the moves he’s made thus far—even if it may take years to come to fruition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a governor that is operating from a compass of action,” said Stephanie Roberson, government relations director for the politically powerful California Nurses Association, which hasn’t exactly been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/union-boss-roseann-demoro-doesnt-play-nice/\">known for its patience\u003c/a> on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has taken two tacks. He’s asking the Trump administration to let the state create its own single-payer system offering coverage to all Californians—a move almost everyone regards as a very long shot. And he’s also pushing specific ideas to expand health care coverage to hundreds of thousands of still-uninsured Californians—a move that seems much more do-able.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his campaign, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-in-speech-to-single-payer-advocates-1506103477-htmlstory.html\">promised the nurses\u003c/a> that he would make it happen. But the state can’t do it alone. That’s why he sent a letter to the federal government right out of the gate, asking the administration and Congress to set up an “innovation waiver” to allow California to create its own single-payer system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5698578-Letter-to-White-House.html\" width=800 height=800]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say there is little chance the Trump administration will give the state the go-ahead on this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s making a statement and sometimes making statements is important—even if there’s little chance of making progress in the immediate future,” said Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/Pages/home.aspx\">UCLA Center for Health Policy Research\u003c/a>. “It’s a way of drawing a line in the sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”It’s also a way to stave off criticism from advocates,” said Jesus Ramirez-Valles, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://healthequity.sfsu.edu/\">Health Equity Institute\u003c/a> at San Francisco State University. “He can say ‘I tried it’ and there is no risk on him. If he doesn’t do what he promised, then he is risking opposition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712068/poll-californians-want-universal-health-coverage-free-community-college\">Poll: Californians Want Universal Health Coverage, Free Community College\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712068/poll-californians-want-universal-health-coverage-free-community-college\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS249_doctor-examining-senior.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Federal permission would also require Congress to support a new waiver system—one that would allow the state to redirect funds that usually go to the federal government, such as Medicare income taxes, to a state funding authority that would manage and pay for a single-payer health care system, Kominski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current waiver systems do not allow for this type of financial management by the state. Other states have used existing waiver programs for permission to set prices or to implement additional requirements, but not to collect federal money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to ask for the money,” said Roberson of the nurses union. “We are not going to sit on our hands and hope something is going to happen. This strengthens the governor’s commitment to Medicare for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, Newsom is tackling the block of 3 million uninsured California residents by chipping away at the edges—proposing spending to help struggling middle-income families buy health insurance, and providing state coverage to some undocumented young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Powerful forces may try to stand in our way, but California won’t back down. We’re going to build a universal healthcare system that covers every Californian and will inspire the nation.\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/Oa5nAFbA2Z\">https://t.co/Oa5nAFbA2Z\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1088614181174169601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2019\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>He’ll need approval from the Legislature, now a supermajority of Democrats, many of whom have supported similar ideas in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\">intertwined proposals\u003c/a> in his budget would offer hundreds of thousands of middle-income families additional state subsidies to buy health insurance, and require every Californian to obtain health coverage or pay a tax penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This “state mandate” would replace the controversial federal mandate—a central component of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare— that the Trump administration recently canceled. A few other blue states were quicker to create a replacement state mandate, but California’s progressive lawmakers were wary of penalizing people who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-ideas-counteract-obamacare-mandate-repeal/\">failed to buy health insurance\u003c/a> unless the state also cushioned the blow by offering people more subsidies to lower the costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also proposes to use $260 million in state funds to extend Medi-Cal, the government health program for people who can’t afford insurance, to low-income undocumented immigrants ages 18 to 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a classic “Resistance State” action for Newsom, as California tries to counteract the Trump administration’s federal moves to undermine Obamacare. Last year a joint \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2018/CA-Coverage-Gains-To-Erode-Without-Further-State-Action.pdf\">UCLA and UC Berkeley study\u003c/a> found that the uninsured rate in California would rise to nearly 13 percent by 2023 if nothing is done at the state level to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare was enacted, California’s uninsured rate has dropped from about 17 percent to roughly 7 percent. Roughly half of those 3 million remaining qualify for assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/38f2f57c-a5b8-4386-bc7a-afd2c3af941f?src=embed\" title=\"The Uninsured\" width=\"800\" height=\"840\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/pdfs/fpl-chart.pdf\">federal poverty level\u003c/a> for 2019 is set at earnings of $12,140 for one person and $25,100 for a family of four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/0eadb36d-d922-4353-aced-f5e9b46e787c?src=embed\" title=\"Income Limits for Current and Proposed Subsidies\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget does not include cost estimates for the additional subsidies but Newsom intends to pay for the expansion by having the state collect penalties from Californians who forego insurance. His budget proposal estimates that the mandate penalty could raise about $500 million a year, similar to what about \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-historic-table-2\">600,000 Californians paid\u003c/a> to the federal government when it had a mandate and collected its own penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Lee, who directs the state health insurance exchange \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/\">Covered California\u003c/a>, praised Newsom’s proposals during a recent\u003ca href=\"https://board.coveredca.com/meetings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> board meeting.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only does his initiative propose an individual penalty show courage,” he said, “it shows some thoughtfulness about the challenges that middle-class Americans face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrollment for Covered California, which recently ended, was down 15 percent over last year. Lee said the elimination of the federal penalty is partly to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://board.coveredca.com/meetings/2019/01-17%20Meeting/Draft_Affordability_Report%20_1-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">draft affordability report\u003c/a> Covered California is preparing for the Legislature concludes that if Newsom’s two proposals—expanded subsidies and a mandate—are adopted, enrollment could rise by nearly 650,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding the subsidies with penalties is, of course, a bit of a Catch-22: The more successful California is in getting people to obtain health care, the smaller the penalty fund to pay for the subsidies that help fund that care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re accomplishing your goal, but you’re taking away revenue,” Kominski said. “This is the kind of problem we should be happy to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conundrum is reminiscent of the state’s tobacco tax, which was intended to deter people from smoking. Success has meant a drop in the amount of money the tax brings in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/e221a34e-9b03-4257-9021-bb6c216bb105?src=embed\" title=\"KFF Poll - Health care\" width=\"800\" height=\"658\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite what many see as dismal prospects for single-payer in California so long as the Trump administration can quash the state’s waiver request, the California Nurses Association is undaunted. They’re working on a soon-to-be-introduced single-payer bill, more detailed than the version that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/trump_california/single-payer-health-bill-set-aside/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died in 2017\u003c/a>. That one carried a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/fiscal-impact-estimate-report%2817-0019%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$400 billion price tag\u003c/a>, more than three times the state’s annual budget, lacked support from then-Gov. Jerry Brown and was scant on details. The new version, nurses union rep Roberson said, will be specific about how single-payer would work and how it would be paid for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not eradicating providers, we are not seeking to dismantle hospitals,” she said. “The fundamental structure of healthcare delivery will stay in place, what we are changing is how healthcare is financed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the Trump administration rejects the waiver request? 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Last year a joint \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2018/CA-Coverage-Gains-To-Erode-Without-Further-State-Action.pdf\">UCLA and UC Berkeley study\u003c/a> found that the uninsured rate in California would rise to nearly 13 percent by 2023 if nothing is done at the state level to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare was enacted, California’s uninsured rate has dropped from about 17 percent to roughly 7 percent. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s middle class is reaching a breaking point. Especially when it comes to the high cost of housing. So says the state’s new governor, Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing. This is the issue,” Newsom said at a press conference earlier this month, unveiling his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first budget proposal as governor\u003c/a>. “Unless we get serious about it, this state will continue to lose its middle class, and the dream will be limited to fewer and fewer people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle-class Californians could find some relief under Newsom’s $209 billion budget, which includes new spending aimed at getting cities to approve more housing. Other proposals could bring down the cost of health care and higher education for Californians who currently make too much to qualify for state help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But middle-class California families won’t find much help shouldering other expenses, like the looming cost of caring for aging family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does “middle-class” even mean in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a state where families of four earning up to $117,400 meet the federal government’s definition of “low-income” in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/us/bay-area-housing-market.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certain regions\u003c/a>, there may be no definitive answer on what qualifies as “middle-class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-american-middle-class-is-stable-in-size-but-losing-ground-financially-to-upper-income-families/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center analysis\u003c/a> of government wage data, families of four in California can be considered middle-class if they make anywhere between $59,702 and $179,105 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Direct subsidies in the governor’s budget tend to go toward Californians making less. Newsom noted that no state has a higher \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2018/09/12/california_still_has_the_nations_highest_poverty_rate_blame_housing_costs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poverty rate\u003c/a> than California. He wants to try to lower it by giving higher tax refunds to full-time workers earning up to $15 an hour through an expanded version of the state’s earned income tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also proposing a large boost in spending to subsidize the development of affordable housing for low-income residents. His budget calls for increasing the state’s low-income housing tax credit from $80 million to $500 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also includes a $500-million bump to the California Housing Finance Agency’s mixed‑income loan program, which finances developments that include units for moderate-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/embed/SrWC9XnKPKI?start=3865\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget doesn’t propose similar housing subsidies for most middle-class Californians. Matthew Lewis, director of communications for the pro-housing group \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California YIMBY\u003c/a>, said that approach makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a matter of policy, you don’t provide subsidies to people who are making over $80,000 a year,” said Lewis. “But in California, that’s the middle class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis doesn’t think Newsom can subsidize his way toward a solution to the state’s housing crisis. Instead, he and other housing advocates like what Newsom’s budget does to push local governments to approve more housing in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears that Governor Newsom is himself a YIMBY,” said Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Newsom’s budget, cities that meet housing goals set by the state would be rewarded with money from a $500 million state fund, and they could use that money for whatever they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719937/controversial-bay-area-housing-plan-heads-to-state-legislature\">Controversial Bay Area Housing Plan Heads to State Legislature\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719937/controversial-bay-area-housing-plan-heads-to-state-legislature\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-1046169802-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In other words, he’s starting to build funds that would actually financially encourage cities to build more housing,” said \u003ca href=\"https://beaconecon.com/people/bio/christopher_thornberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Thornberg of Beacon Economics\u003c/a>. He said that should help address California’s housing supply problems. “That’s really helpful for California’s middle class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has also discussed punishing cities that fail to meet their housing goals by withholding transit funding. It’s an idea that has not gone over well with local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacities.org/Top/News/Press-Releases/2019/League-of-California-Cities-Issues-Statement-on-Go\">a statement\u003c/a> on the governor’s budget, League of California Cities executive director Carolyn Coleman said her organization was concerned about proposals “that would raid local transportation funds that voters have repeatedly dedicated to local communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Health Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The words “middle-class” only appear once in Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">280-page budget proposal\u003c/a>. They show up under his plan to expand health care subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Californian encouraged by that move is Heather Altman. She works as an environmental consultant out of her home in Long Beach. She gets to be her own boss, and she makes decent money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I do consider myself middle class,” Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would not have started her business back in 2014 without Obamacare. It meant she could finally afford her own health insurance. She no longer needed to get it through an employer. She has asthma, a pre-existing condition that made individual coverage unaffordable in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2014, “My premium was $356 for a platinum plan,” Altman said. “I thought that was super affordable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716531/newsoms-first-act-as-governor-expanding-health-coverage\">Newsom’s First Act as Governor? Expanding Health Coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716531/newsoms-first-act-as-governor-expanding-health-coverage\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/NewsomInaugWaving-1020x691.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Premiums for the same plan have more than doubled, to $761 per month. Altman has switched to a plan with a lower premium. But add in the routine costs of treating her asthma, and she’s spending more than $800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s very difficult to budget,” Altman said. “And it certainly isn’t sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, individuals who earn up to $48,560 a year are eligible for \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthforcalifornia.com/covered-california/income-limits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subsidized premiums\u003c/a> through Covered California. Altman makes too much to qualify. But Newsom’s budget calls for raising annual income limits for individuals to $72,840 and for families of four to $150,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had that subsidy bracket been in place when I started my business, there would have been years that I would have qualified,” Altman said. “I’m hopeful that some of these changes may make a meaningful difference in my financial bottom line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11721624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-1200x927.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altman has shared her story with the advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"https://health-access.org/about-us/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Access California\u003c/a>. Executive director Anthony Wright said Newsom’s budget is promising for Californians like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Current law has cliffs where the assistance runs out,” Wright said. “The extra help will allow some families to get coverage that otherwise couldn’t afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom plans to pay for the expanded subsidies by creating a state version of the Affordable Care Act’s federal mandate to either buy health insurance or pay a tax penalty (which has gone to $0 under the Trump administration).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916?utm_source=laowww&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report\u003c/a> on the governor’s budget, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office notes that this approach could create a funding conflict. If the state tax penalty works, it should drive more people to buy insurance. But then, “less funding would be available for premium subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>College\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Higher education is another big drain on middle-class budgets. Newsom’s budget calls for a tuition freeze at state universities, earmarking $300 million for the California State University system and $240 million for the University of California system each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of Southern California professor of sociology \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/pastor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuel Pastor\u003c/a> said middle-class families could also get a break under Newsom’s $40 million plan to make a second year of community college tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can make the first and second year free, you’re lowering the cost for a lot of middle class parents of a four-year education,” Pastor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Cost of Caring for Family Members, Young and Old\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Universal preschool and six months of paid family leave for parents are still on Newsom’s agenda. But this budget won’t pay for those goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University assistant professor of health research and policy \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~mrossin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maya Rossin-Slater\u003c/a> said California’s existing paid family leave law could be strengthened. Right now, many parents don’t use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her research \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~mrossin/AKMdraft_Oct2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows California workers\u003c/a> at smaller, lower-paying companies are less likely to take paid family leave than higher-paid workers. That could be, in part, because workers fear that under existing law, their jobs won’t be protected while they’re out.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708405/pricey-real-estate-prompts-scammers-to-target-senior-homeowners\">Pricey Real Estate Prompts Scammers to Target Senior Homeowners\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708405/pricey-real-estate-prompts-scammers-to-target-senior-homeowners\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Homes-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Job protection, I think, is crucial,” Rossin-Slater said, “Especially for middle-class families that might worry about not having a job to return to after the leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longer paid family leave could help alleviate some of the high cost of child care, which often costs middle-class parents more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/13/59477/childcare-costs-more-than-college-tuition-in-calif/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">college tuition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s population is aging. With more and more baby boomers retiring, the cost of caring for elderly parents will also start to stack up for more middle class families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget includes a 15.2 percent increase in general fund spending for in-home supportive services. But USC gerontology professor \u003ca href=\"http://gero.usc.edu/faculty/donna-benton-ph-d/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donna Benton\u003c/a> said most Californians don’t qualify for the low-income program. So they’re stuck spending thousands of dollars a year on caregiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out-of-pocket costs eat up 20 percent of caregivers’ income, on average. Some caregivers have to quit their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family members in general sacrifice a lot,” said Benton. “And then when they go to look for services for themselves, usually they’re not going to qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benton was part of a state task force that issued a \u003ca href=\"http://tffc.usc.edu/2018/07/02/final-report-from-the-california-task-force-on-family-caregiving-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number of recommendations\u003c/a> to help ease the cost. Among their ideas was a tax credit for caregiving expenses, as well as more funding for resource centers throughout the state that serve caregivers regardless of income level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Benton looked through Newsom’s budget, she said, “I didn’t see anything that, I would say, touched on any of the recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long Beach environmental consultant Heather Altman lives near her parents, who are now in their 70s. She said they’re in a good financial position right now. But she wonders if they’ll end up needing her help in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should it come to that time, then yeah, that responsibility falls to me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same will be true for millions of middle-class Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s middle class is reaching a breaking point. Especially when it comes to the high cost of housing. So says the state’s new governor, Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing. This is the issue,” Newsom said at a press conference earlier this month, unveiling his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first budget proposal as governor\u003c/a>. “Unless we get serious about it, this state will continue to lose its middle class, and the dream will be limited to fewer and fewer people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle-class Californians could find some relief under Newsom’s $209 billion budget, which includes new spending aimed at getting cities to approve more housing. Other proposals could bring down the cost of health care and higher education for Californians who currently make too much to qualify for state help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But middle-class California families won’t find much help shouldering other expenses, like the looming cost of caring for aging family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does “middle-class” even mean in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a state where families of four earning up to $117,400 meet the federal government’s definition of “low-income” in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/us/bay-area-housing-market.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certain regions\u003c/a>, there may be no definitive answer on what qualifies as “middle-class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-american-middle-class-is-stable-in-size-but-losing-ground-financially-to-upper-income-families/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center analysis\u003c/a> of government wage data, families of four in California can be considered middle-class if they make anywhere between $59,702 and $179,105 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Direct subsidies in the governor’s budget tend to go toward Californians making less. Newsom noted that no state has a higher \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2018/09/12/california_still_has_the_nations_highest_poverty_rate_blame_housing_costs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poverty rate\u003c/a> than California. He wants to try to lower it by giving higher tax refunds to full-time workers earning up to $15 an hour through an expanded version of the state’s earned income tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also proposing a large boost in spending to subsidize the development of affordable housing for low-income residents. His budget calls for increasing the state’s low-income housing tax credit from $80 million to $500 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also includes a $500-million bump to the California Housing Finance Agency’s mixed‑income loan program, which finances developments that include units for moderate-income residents.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/SrWC9XnKPKI?start=3865'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/SrWC9XnKPKI?start=3865'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget doesn’t propose similar housing subsidies for most middle-class Californians. Matthew Lewis, director of communications for the pro-housing group \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California YIMBY\u003c/a>, said that approach makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a matter of policy, you don’t provide subsidies to people who are making over $80,000 a year,” said Lewis. “But in California, that’s the middle class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis doesn’t think Newsom can subsidize his way toward a solution to the state’s housing crisis. Instead, he and other housing advocates like what Newsom’s budget does to push local governments to approve more housing in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears that Governor Newsom is himself a YIMBY,” said Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Newsom’s budget, cities that meet housing goals set by the state would be rewarded with money from a $500 million state fund, and they could use that money for whatever they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719937/controversial-bay-area-housing-plan-heads-to-state-legislature\">Controversial Bay Area Housing Plan Heads to State Legislature\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719937/controversial-bay-area-housing-plan-heads-to-state-legislature\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-1046169802-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In other words, he’s starting to build funds that would actually financially encourage cities to build more housing,” said \u003ca href=\"https://beaconecon.com/people/bio/christopher_thornberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Thornberg of Beacon Economics\u003c/a>. He said that should help address California’s housing supply problems. “That’s really helpful for California’s middle class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has also discussed punishing cities that fail to meet their housing goals by withholding transit funding. It’s an idea that has not gone over well with local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacities.org/Top/News/Press-Releases/2019/League-of-California-Cities-Issues-Statement-on-Go\">a statement\u003c/a> on the governor’s budget, League of California Cities executive director Carolyn Coleman said her organization was concerned about proposals “that would raid local transportation funds that voters have repeatedly dedicated to local communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Health Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The words “middle-class” only appear once in Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">280-page budget proposal\u003c/a>. They show up under his plan to expand health care subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Californian encouraged by that move is Heather Altman. She works as an environmental consultant out of her home in Long Beach. She gets to be her own boss, and she makes decent money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I do consider myself middle class,” Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would not have started her business back in 2014 without Obamacare. It meant she could finally afford her own health insurance. She no longer needed to get it through an employer. She has asthma, a pre-existing condition that made individual coverage unaffordable in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2014, “My premium was $356 for a platinum plan,” Altman said. “I thought that was super affordable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716531/newsoms-first-act-as-governor-expanding-health-coverage\">Newsom’s First Act as Governor? Expanding Health Coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716531/newsoms-first-act-as-governor-expanding-health-coverage\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/NewsomInaugWaving-1020x691.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Premiums for the same plan have more than doubled, to $761 per month. Altman has switched to a plan with a lower premium. But add in the routine costs of treating her asthma, and she’s spending more than $800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s very difficult to budget,” Altman said. “And it certainly isn’t sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, individuals who earn up to $48,560 a year are eligible for \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthforcalifornia.com/covered-california/income-limits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subsidized premiums\u003c/a> through Covered California. Altman makes too much to qualify. But Newsom’s budget calls for raising annual income limits for individuals to $72,840 and for families of four to $150,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had that subsidy bracket been in place when I started my business, there would have been years that I would have qualified,” Altman said. “I’m hopeful that some of these changes may make a meaningful difference in my financial bottom line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11721624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart-1200x927.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Healthcare-Subsidies-chart.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altman has shared her story with the advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"https://health-access.org/about-us/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Access California\u003c/a>. Executive director Anthony Wright said Newsom’s budget is promising for Californians like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Current law has cliffs where the assistance runs out,” Wright said. “The extra help will allow some families to get coverage that otherwise couldn’t afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom plans to pay for the expanded subsidies by creating a state version of the Affordable Care Act’s federal mandate to either buy health insurance or pay a tax penalty (which has gone to $0 under the Trump administration).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916?utm_source=laowww&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report\u003c/a> on the governor’s budget, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office notes that this approach could create a funding conflict. If the state tax penalty works, it should drive more people to buy insurance. But then, “less funding would be available for premium subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>College\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Higher education is another big drain on middle-class budgets. Newsom’s budget calls for a tuition freeze at state universities, earmarking $300 million for the California State University system and $240 million for the University of California system each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of Southern California professor of sociology \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/pastor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuel Pastor\u003c/a> said middle-class families could also get a break under Newsom’s $40 million plan to make a second year of community college tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can make the first and second year free, you’re lowering the cost for a lot of middle class parents of a four-year education,” Pastor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Cost of Caring for Family Members, Young and Old\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Universal preschool and six months of paid family leave for parents are still on Newsom’s agenda. But this budget won’t pay for those goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University assistant professor of health research and policy \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~mrossin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maya Rossin-Slater\u003c/a> said California’s existing paid family leave law could be strengthened. Right now, many parents don’t use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her research \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~mrossin/AKMdraft_Oct2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows California workers\u003c/a> at smaller, lower-paying companies are less likely to take paid family leave than higher-paid workers. That could be, in part, because workers fear that under existing law, their jobs won’t be protected while they’re out.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708405/pricey-real-estate-prompts-scammers-to-target-senior-homeowners\">Pricey Real Estate Prompts Scammers to Target Senior Homeowners\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708405/pricey-real-estate-prompts-scammers-to-target-senior-homeowners\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Homes-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Job protection, I think, is crucial,” Rossin-Slater said, “Especially for middle-class families that might worry about not having a job to return to after the leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longer paid family leave could help alleviate some of the high cost of child care, which often costs middle-class parents more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/13/59477/childcare-costs-more-than-college-tuition-in-calif/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">college tuition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s population is aging. With more and more baby boomers retiring, the cost of caring for elderly parents will also start to stack up for more middle class families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget includes a 15.2 percent increase in general fund spending for in-home supportive services. But USC gerontology professor \u003ca href=\"http://gero.usc.edu/faculty/donna-benton-ph-d/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donna Benton\u003c/a> said most Californians don’t qualify for the low-income program. So they’re stuck spending thousands of dollars a year on caregiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out-of-pocket costs eat up 20 percent of caregivers’ income, on average. Some caregivers have to quit their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family members in general sacrifice a lot,” said Benton. “And then when they go to look for services for themselves, usually they’re not going to qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benton was part of a state task force that issued a \u003ca href=\"http://tffc.usc.edu/2018/07/02/final-report-from-the-california-task-force-on-family-caregiving-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number of recommendations\u003c/a> to help ease the cost. Among their ideas was a tax credit for caregiving expenses, as well as more funding for resource centers throughout the state that serve caregivers regardless of income level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Benton looked through Newsom’s budget, she said, “I didn’t see anything that, I would say, touched on any of the recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long Beach environmental consultant Heather Altman lives near her parents, who are now in their 70s. She said they’re in a good financial position right now. But she wonders if they’ll end up needing her help in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should it come to that time, then yeah, that responsibility falls to me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same will be true for millions of middle-class Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This time of year, many California counties are conducting point-in-time counts to figure out who is homeless and why. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires these counts from any community that wants federal funding for housing and other services for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if governments and service providers have developed a more data-based understanding of who’s living in shelters, vehicles and on the streets, the rest of us often operate off our gut instincts. Are you willing to check yourself?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Myth #1: They’re not from around here\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Experts say this is one of the most common misconceptions about homelessness, and it is often paired with another idea, explained Mark Shotwell, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://rittercenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ritter Center\u003c/a> in Marin County. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked in four Bay Area counties, and in all of the counties that I’ve worked in, the belief is that if you create certain kinds of services, it will attract people who are homeless to come from other communities,” Shotwell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, no. Shotwell directs your attention to the last point-in-time survey in Marin County in \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/point-time-count-marin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017\u003c/a>, which he said is not substantially different from the survey two years before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721464\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.18.18-PM-800x320.png\" alt=\"Mark Shotwell of the Ritter Center in San Rafael said there are many different reasons why people become homeless in Marin County, but most homeless people are locals.\" width=\"800\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.18.18-PM-800x320.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.18.18-PM-160x64.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.18.18-PM-1020x408.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.18.18-PM.png 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Shotwell of the Ritter Center in San Rafael said there are many different reasons why people become homeless in Marin County, but most homeless people are locals. \u003ccite>(Source: Applied Survey Research. (2017). Marin County Homeless Census & Survey. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shotwell said “a series of unfortunate events” explained each neighbor’s story, though the particulars vary: a lost job, mental or physical disability, addiction, divorce, domestic violence, eviction, etc. The rising cost of housing plays a key role, too. “Losing one paycheck, losing one job, really could result in instability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempted to insist Marin County is an outlier? Let’s look at a couple more California counties that top the lists in any discussion of homelessness in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM-800x343.png\" alt=\"In 2017, 69% of respondents reported they were living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless. This is similar to the survey findings in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM-800x343.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM-1020x437.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM-1200x515.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM.png 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2017, 69% of respondents reported they were living in \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Point-in-Time-Count-General-FINAL-6.21.17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco County\u003c/a> at the time they most recently became homeless. This is similar to the survey findings in 2015. \u003ccite>(Source: Applied Survey Research. (2017). San Francisco County Homeless Count & Survey.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721470\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM-800x297.png\" alt=\""What about the remaining group that wasn't living locally? Where do they come from?"\" width=\"800\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM-800x297.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM-160x59.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM-1020x378.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM-1200x445.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM.png 1876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“What about the remaining group that wasn’t living locally? Where do they come from?” \u003ccite>(Source: Applied Survey Research. (2017). San Francisco Homeless Count. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of the roughly 30 percent of homeless people surveyed in San Francisco two years ago, the bulk of those not from San Francisco were from California. That may not technically be anybody’s idea of a “neighbor,” but it does suggest a recalibration is in order for those of harboring suspicions “they” came “here” from far away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721468\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.33.05-PM-800x900.png\" alt=\"Los Angeles County has the largest homeless population by far of any county in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.33.05-PM-800x900.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.33.05-PM-160x180.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.33.05-PM.png 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=2059-2018-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a> has the largest homeless population by far of any county in California. \u003ccite>(Source: Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Myth #2: Homeless people don’t want to be housed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One or two personal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10729141/reaching-out-to-the-homeless-woman-sleeping-on-your-san-francisco-doorstep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conversations with individuals\u003c/a> who insist on the freedom of the streets does not necessarily give you an accurate picture of how most homeless people feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, social service providers say, the isolation and physical hardships of homelessness can prompt many people to find ways to justify their suffering or at least resign themselves to it, for sheer psychological survival (see Myth #3 for more on that). For another thing, living on the streets brings with it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10761651/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">logistical complications\u003c/a> that make it hard to imagine getting off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summer-Lee Bettencourt used to be homeless herself before social service workers helped her get back on her feet. She was sold to human traffickers as a teenager, and while she eventually managed to escape, she needed help building a new life for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut-800x540.jpg\" alt='Summer Lee-Bettencourt, outside EHC LifeBuilders James Boccardo Reception Center in San Jose. Once homeless herself, Lee-Bettencourt now helps others get off the streets. \"It’s actually a breath of fresh air being able to give something back that people did for you, you know?\"' width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut-1200x809.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer Lee-Bettencourt, outside EHC LifeBuilders James Boccardo Reception Center in San Jose. Once homeless herself, Lee-Bettencourt now helps others get off the streets. “It’s actually a breath of fresh air being able to give something back that people did for you, you know?” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She works now for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/NeedAssistance/Veterans/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supportive Services for Veteran Families\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County, and explained that the longer you are homeless, the harder it is to conceptualize what steps are necessary to build, or rebuild, a life in housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people, they don’t know where to go. They don’t know what to do. And they need help being connected to housing first. I mean, how can you go on an interview if you can’t take a shower? If you don’t have clothing? So they feel lost. They just need a lot of support, compassion, understanding,” Lee Bettencourt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM-800x333.png\" alt=\"Many of the people surveyed in Santa Clara County in recent years said they were new to homelessness.\" width=\"800\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM-800x333.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM-160x67.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM-1020x425.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM-1200x500.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM.png 1450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the people surveyed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/ContinuumofCare/ReportsandPublications/Documents/2017%20Santa%20Clara%20County%20Homeless%20Census%20and%20Survey%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> in recent years said they were new to homelessness. \u003ccite>(Source: Applied Survey Research. (2009-2017). Santa Clara County Homeless Census and Survey.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Myth #3: Mentally ill people could pull themselves out of homelessness if they just agreed to take their medications\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jeffrey Seal is the medical director for \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless\u003c/a>, and he’s also a psychiatrist who helps manage the Trust Clinic in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every morning, we have a line of patients waiting to be seen here, and you can imagine: schizophrenia, bipolar — and one that commonly gets left out when we’re talking about homeless populations is the trauma related disorders,” Dr. Seal said. “You know, a lot of people who have suffered a significant amount of trauma since early childhood end up out there. If you could possibly think of the environment that would make their symptoms worse, this would be it. Right? Put somebody into a park. Make the situation unpredictable. Put them at risk of violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11721502 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-800x265.png\" alt=\"22 percent of those surveyed in Alameda County two years ago said mental health services might have prevented their homelessness.\" width=\"800\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-800x265.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-1020x337.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-1200x397.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-1920x635.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of those surveyed in \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ALAEMDA_7-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County\u003c/a> two years ago, 22 percent said mental health services might have prevented their homelessness. \u003ccite>(Source: Applied Survey Research. (2017). Alameda County Homeless Census & Survey. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He added, “Psychiatric medications were tested on people who have stable environments, they’re housed, they’re middle class people who were put into randomized, controlled trials. So [medications] can certainly be helpful, but it’s really a joke to say that psychiatric medications would lift someone out of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not arguing against medications, but seeing them as a solution outside the context of other supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Myth #4: There’s nothing I can do to help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Think you’ve got nothing to offer other than your spare change? Think again, said Donna Colombo, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.trinitycenterwc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trinity Center\u003c/a> in Contra Costa County. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come talk to me. All homeless service organizations need volunteers to help do a lot of things. All you need to do is show up,” Colombo said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721492\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='81 year-old Horace Crawford volunteers at Trinity Center in Walnut Creek. The retired architectural engineer considers himself and his Ford truck \"on call to help anybody who needs to get someplace, or to move something, or to get some part time day work.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">81-year-old Horace Crawford volunteers at Trinity Center in Walnut Creek. The retired architectural engineer considers himself and his Ford truck “on call to help anybody who needs to get someplace, or to move something, or to get some part time day work.” \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Horace Crawford has been showing up for about ten years now. The 81-year-old retired architectural engineer said many people get overwhelmed by the “big picture” and fail to see how they can deliver practical help in all sorts of ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past few years, Crawford has made himself personally available to homeless individuals in the area, using his truck to help move people’s belongings or drive someone to a medical appointment. He’s also taken it upon himself to coordinate day work for homeless people, building a local network between them and those who want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recognizes there can be an intimidation factor to working so closely with homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are a bit afraid of working with a homeless person, but if they know me, and I vouch for someone, they’re OK. Result is, I’ve got a bunch of friends that I’ve never had before!” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM-800x389.png\" alt=\"The 2018 Point In Time count identified 627 more individuals experiencing homelessness than the previous year's count.\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM-800x389.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM-160x78.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM-1020x496.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM-1200x583.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM.png 1412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2018 Point In Time count identified 627 more individuals experiencing homelessness in \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/h3/coc/pdf/PIT-report-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a> than the previous year’s count. \u003ccite>(Source: Contra Costa Health Housing & Homeless)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This time of year, many California counties are conducting point-in-time counts to figure out who is homeless and why. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires these counts from any community that wants federal funding for housing and other services for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if governments and service providers have developed a more data-based understanding of who’s living in shelters, vehicles and on the streets, the rest of us often operate off our gut instincts. Are you willing to check yourself?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Myth #1: They’re not from around here\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Experts say this is one of the most common misconceptions about homelessness, and it is often paired with another idea, explained Mark Shotwell, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://rittercenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ritter Center\u003c/a> in Marin County. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked in four Bay Area counties, and in all of the counties that I’ve worked in, the belief is that if you create certain kinds of services, it will attract people who are homeless to come from other communities,” Shotwell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, no. Shotwell directs your attention to the last point-in-time survey in Marin County in \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/point-time-count-marin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017\u003c/a>, which he said is not substantially different from the survey two years before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721464\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.18.18-PM-800x320.png\" alt=\"Mark Shotwell of the Ritter Center in San Rafael said there are many different reasons why people become homeless in Marin County, but most homeless people are locals.\" width=\"800\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.18.18-PM-800x320.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.18.18-PM-160x64.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.18.18-PM-1020x408.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.18.18-PM.png 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Shotwell of the Ritter Center in San Rafael said there are many different reasons why people become homeless in Marin County, but most homeless people are locals. \u003ccite>(Source: Applied Survey Research. (2017). Marin County Homeless Census & Survey. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shotwell said “a series of unfortunate events” explained each neighbor’s story, though the particulars vary: a lost job, mental or physical disability, addiction, divorce, domestic violence, eviction, etc. The rising cost of housing plays a key role, too. “Losing one paycheck, losing one job, really could result in instability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempted to insist Marin County is an outlier? Let’s look at a couple more California counties that top the lists in any discussion of homelessness in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM-800x343.png\" alt=\"In 2017, 69% of respondents reported they were living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless. This is similar to the survey findings in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM-800x343.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM-1020x437.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM-1200x515.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.36.05-PM.png 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2017, 69% of respondents reported they were living in \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Point-in-Time-Count-General-FINAL-6.21.17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco County\u003c/a> at the time they most recently became homeless. This is similar to the survey findings in 2015. \u003ccite>(Source: Applied Survey Research. (2017). San Francisco County Homeless Count & Survey.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721470\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM-800x297.png\" alt=\""What about the remaining group that wasn't living locally? Where do they come from?"\" width=\"800\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM-800x297.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM-160x59.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM-1020x378.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM-1200x445.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.42.41-PM.png 1876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“What about the remaining group that wasn’t living locally? Where do they come from?” \u003ccite>(Source: Applied Survey Research. (2017). San Francisco Homeless Count. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of the roughly 30 percent of homeless people surveyed in San Francisco two years ago, the bulk of those not from San Francisco were from California. That may not technically be anybody’s idea of a “neighbor,” but it does suggest a recalibration is in order for those of harboring suspicions “they” came “here” from far away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721468\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.33.05-PM-800x900.png\" alt=\"Los Angeles County has the largest homeless population by far of any county in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.33.05-PM-800x900.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.33.05-PM-160x180.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-3.33.05-PM.png 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=2059-2018-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a> has the largest homeless population by far of any county in California. \u003ccite>(Source: Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Myth #2: Homeless people don’t want to be housed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One or two personal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10729141/reaching-out-to-the-homeless-woman-sleeping-on-your-san-francisco-doorstep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conversations with individuals\u003c/a> who insist on the freedom of the streets does not necessarily give you an accurate picture of how most homeless people feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, social service providers say, the isolation and physical hardships of homelessness can prompt many people to find ways to justify their suffering or at least resign themselves to it, for sheer psychological survival (see Myth #3 for more on that). For another thing, living on the streets brings with it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10761651/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">logistical complications\u003c/a> that make it hard to imagine getting off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summer-Lee Bettencourt used to be homeless herself before social service workers helped her get back on her feet. She was sold to human traffickers as a teenager, and while she eventually managed to escape, she needed help building a new life for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut-800x540.jpg\" alt='Summer Lee-Bettencourt, outside EHC LifeBuilders James Boccardo Reception Center in San Jose. Once homeless herself, Lee-Bettencourt now helps others get off the streets. \"It’s actually a breath of fresh air being able to give something back that people did for you, you know?\"' width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut-1200x809.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34894_IMG_4511-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer Lee-Bettencourt, outside EHC LifeBuilders James Boccardo Reception Center in San Jose. Once homeless herself, Lee-Bettencourt now helps others get off the streets. “It’s actually a breath of fresh air being able to give something back that people did for you, you know?” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She works now for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/NeedAssistance/Veterans/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supportive Services for Veteran Families\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County, and explained that the longer you are homeless, the harder it is to conceptualize what steps are necessary to build, or rebuild, a life in housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people, they don’t know where to go. They don’t know what to do. And they need help being connected to housing first. I mean, how can you go on an interview if you can’t take a shower? If you don’t have clothing? So they feel lost. They just need a lot of support, compassion, understanding,” Lee Bettencourt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM-800x333.png\" alt=\"Many of the people surveyed in Santa Clara County in recent years said they were new to homelessness.\" width=\"800\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM-800x333.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM-160x67.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM-1020x425.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM-1200x500.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.20.41-AM.png 1450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the people surveyed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/ContinuumofCare/ReportsandPublications/Documents/2017%20Santa%20Clara%20County%20Homeless%20Census%20and%20Survey%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> in recent years said they were new to homelessness. \u003ccite>(Source: Applied Survey Research. (2009-2017). Santa Clara County Homeless Census and Survey.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Myth #3: Mentally ill people could pull themselves out of homelessness if they just agreed to take their medications\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jeffrey Seal is the medical director for \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless\u003c/a>, and he’s also a psychiatrist who helps manage the Trust Clinic in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every morning, we have a line of patients waiting to be seen here, and you can imagine: schizophrenia, bipolar — and one that commonly gets left out when we’re talking about homeless populations is the trauma related disorders,” Dr. Seal said. “You know, a lot of people who have suffered a significant amount of trauma since early childhood end up out there. If you could possibly think of the environment that would make their symptoms worse, this would be it. Right? Put somebody into a park. Make the situation unpredictable. Put them at risk of violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11721502 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-800x265.png\" alt=\"22 percent of those surveyed in Alameda County two years ago said mental health services might have prevented their homelessness.\" width=\"800\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-800x265.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-1020x337.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-1200x397.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-5.27.51-PM-1920x635.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of those surveyed in \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ALAEMDA_7-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County\u003c/a> two years ago, 22 percent said mental health services might have prevented their homelessness. \u003ccite>(Source: Applied Survey Research. (2017). Alameda County Homeless Census & Survey. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He added, “Psychiatric medications were tested on people who have stable environments, they’re housed, they’re middle class people who were put into randomized, controlled trials. So [medications] can certainly be helpful, but it’s really a joke to say that psychiatric medications would lift someone out of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not arguing against medications, but seeing them as a solution outside the context of other supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Myth #4: There’s nothing I can do to help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Think you’ve got nothing to offer other than your spare change? Think again, said Donna Colombo, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.trinitycenterwc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trinity Center\u003c/a> in Contra Costa County. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come talk to me. All homeless service organizations need volunteers to help do a lot of things. All you need to do is show up,” Colombo said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721492\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='81 year-old Horace Crawford volunteers at Trinity Center in Walnut Creek. The retired architectural engineer considers himself and his Ford truck \"on call to help anybody who needs to get someplace, or to move something, or to get some part time day work.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34893_IMG_0215-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">81-year-old Horace Crawford volunteers at Trinity Center in Walnut Creek. The retired architectural engineer considers himself and his Ford truck “on call to help anybody who needs to get someplace, or to move something, or to get some part time day work.” \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Horace Crawford has been showing up for about ten years now. The 81-year-old retired architectural engineer said many people get overwhelmed by the “big picture” and fail to see how they can deliver practical help in all sorts of ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past few years, Crawford has made himself personally available to homeless individuals in the area, using his truck to help move people’s belongings or drive someone to a medical appointment. He’s also taken it upon himself to coordinate day work for homeless people, building a local network between them and those who want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recognizes there can be an intimidation factor to working so closely with homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are a bit afraid of working with a homeless person, but if they know me, and I vouch for someone, they’re OK. Result is, I’ve got a bunch of friends that I’ve never had before!” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM-800x389.png\" alt=\"The 2018 Point In Time count identified 627 more individuals experiencing homelessness than the previous year's count.\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM-800x389.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM-160x78.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM-1020x496.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM-1200x583.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-8.36.49-AM.png 1412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2018 Point In Time count identified 627 more individuals experiencing homelessness in \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/h3/coc/pdf/PIT-report-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a> than the previous year’s count. \u003ccite>(Source: Contra Costa Health Housing & Homeless)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a chilly January morning, two psychotherapists from the Bay Area arrived at the Greyhound bus station in San Antonio, Texas to meet with dozens of migrant families who had just been dropped off by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two bilingual therapists, Alicia Cruz and Chris Mullen, have worked together for a decade at Kaiser in San Francisco and see clients in offices right next to each other. They were prepared to put their therapeutic skills to use in the most unlikely place: the waiting area inside the bus station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was easy for the women to spot the parents and children just released from detention: They were wearing brightly colored sweatsuits, parkas and brandless tennis shoes issued to them by ICE. The families were delivered there from the country’s two largest ICE family detention centers, each about an hour away, and issued one-way tickets to travel on to relatives or sponsors around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The families crammed onto metal benches, with bags of belongings stuffed under their feet. Several nuns and volunteers from local churches handed out box lunches and backpacks containing toiletries and stuffed animals for the kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clipboards in hand, Cruz and Mullen worked their way down the rows of benches, offering legal information. They also asked parents if they were willing to talk about their experiences crossing the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11721291 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Area therapists, Chris Mullen and Alicia Cruz counsel asylum seekers released from detention in Texas\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco therapists Chris Mullen (left) and Alicia Cruz speak with a migrant mother just released from detention. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mullen and Cruz were so moved by news accounts of migrant families being detained at the border, that they used vacation days for the trip, working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.raicestexas.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RAICES\u003c/a>, a Texas nonprofit that provides legal help to asylum seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told my boys, ‘It’s not a choice for me. I’ve got to go help,’” said Cruz, whose two sons, ages 7 and 11, have helped collect toys to donate to the children in Texas. “It was an immense pull that I couldn’t really explain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More Central American Families Seek Asylum in the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although the total number of people apprehended crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped significantly in recent years, the number of families has grown dramatically, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2017-Dec/BP%20Total%20Monthly%20Family%20Units%20by%20Sector%2C%20FY13-FY17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15,000\u003c/a> people traveling in families in 2013 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration/fy-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">107,000\u003c/a> last year. Most are fleeing gang violence, government corruption or extreme poverty in their home countries in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after a controversial family separation policy was struck down by the courts, the Trump Administration proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-administration-new-indefinite-family-detention-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan\u003c/a> to hold parents and children indefinitely in ICE custody — part of an effort to terminate a longstanding legal agreement that limits ICE detention of children. But ICE has space for about 3,600 people in its three family facilities and advocates in Texas say the families released at the bus station have typically been held by ICE for a week or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721299\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11721299 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Asylum seeking families take Greyhound buses to family and sponsor across the country.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE releases dozens of migrant families a day to the Greyhound Station in San Antonio, Texas. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the families Cruz and Mullen met at the Greyhound station were coughing and had fevers, looking dazed in their first moments of freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz said these families have been through a lot. After surviving violence in their home countries, she said, they are often re-traumatized by the dangerous journey here and their time in U.S. detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz and Mullen handed out plastic bags of Legos to the children so they can play while their parents talk. Most of the migrants don’t want their names used because they fear for the safety of their families. Mullen sat down with a man from Guatemala while his 9-year-old son drew in a coloring book nearby. Mullen asked him why they left home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I had never thought of leaving,” the 29-year-old father replied, “because everything I have is there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father told Mullen that drug traffickers had built landing strips in the jungle near his town and he saw local police driving back and forth each time airplanes landed. One day a friend told him his name was on a government official’s hit list. The next day, that friend disappeared and that’s when he knew he had to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the man spoke, tears dropped steadily onto the sleeve of his jacket. He told Mullen he crossed the border into California last month by climbing a tree with his son clinging to his back and leaping onto the wall, then down onto U.S. soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told my son to grab my neck and hold on really tight because I was going to jump,” he said. “I told him, ‘You have to hold on so you don’t fall.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he and his son spent six days in a Border Patrol station, where they were given cold bean burritos for every meal, before they were transferred to an ICE facility for fathers and sons in Karnes City, Texas. Now they are heading to the East Coast to stay with relatives while their asylum claim is adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Limits to Detention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Under a 1997 legal settlement known as Flores, unaccompanied migrant children are not supposed to be held in US Customs and Border Protection facilities for longer than 72 hours except in “exceptional circumstances,” and they must be provided adequate food and shelter during their stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, attorneys for migrant children filed affidavits with a federal judge documenting numerous violations of the settlement. These included migrants’ lack of access to clean drinking water, being fed inadequate or inedible food, and being subject to unsanitary conditions, extreme cold and sleep deprivation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after two children died in CBP custody in December, officials indicated they would work to transfer parents and children to ICE family detention centers more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘You could see sometimes how intense and overwhelmed they are when they’re reliving their trauma because it’s still very raw and fresh.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Alicia Cruz\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security declined to confirm whether that has occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman called the current situation “an immigration crisis,” and blamed the federal courts for creating a “loophole that rewards parents for bringing their children with them to the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as activist judges continue to set national immigration policy they continue to put family units and innocent children in harm’s way,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dozens of interviews in the Greyhound station, parents from Central American countries described dire conditions they endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One young mother, also from Guatemala, told Cruz she fled because a gang tried to extort money from her and threatened to kill her family when she did not pay up. As she described crossing the Rio Grande with her 10-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, she started to cry, remembering her fear that they might die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we crossed the river, we got lost,” she said. “We didn’t have any water to drink. We spent four, five hours lost before we got picked up by immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother told Cruz that Border Patrol agents locked the family in a cold, windowless room for four days, and only gave them one sandwich and one juice box a day. When her children cried, she said, agents told her to shut them up. “’This isn’t your country’,” she said they told her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the family was transferred to ICE, the mother said they were given enough food to eat and access to showers, but she told Cruz she regrets putting her children through the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it would be easy to come here,” she said. “People told me, ‘Just turn yourself in to immigration!’ But no, it’s very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz listened attentively and reflected back what she’d heard: that the mother made the only choice she could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is you didn’t come because you wanted to, you came because you had to,” Cruz said. “It’s important to remember that even though your children suffered, you had to come to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman nodded and wiped away her tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of hours later, she and her kids boarded a bus to San Francisco, a trip that takes 39 hours. In her pocket was some cash Cruz gave her for meals, along with the name of a trauma recovery center in San Francisco that works with asylum seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714666/migrant-boy-8-dies-in-government-custody-in-new-mexico-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Migrant Boy, 8, Dies in Government Custody in New Mexico Hospital\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712244/judges-ask-ice-to-make-courts-off-limits-to-immigration-arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judges Ask ICE to Make Courts Off Limits to Immigration Arrests\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718987/thousands-more-migrant-children-may-have-been-separated-from-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thousands More Migrant Children May Have Been Separated From Families\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cruz said many of these families will need ongoing help to recover from what they’ve gone through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could see sometimes how intense and overwhelmed they are when they’re reliving their trauma,” she said, “because it’s still very raw and fresh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and Mullen also know that the migrants will need to be able to talk about their experiences in a coherent and compelling way when it comes time for an interview with an asylum officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullen said when someone is in a state of shock, they don’t always sound convincing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re really disconnected — and that’s often the case with PTSD — it sounds insincere and also it can be very vague,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two women spent five long days counseling migrants at the bus station. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a chilly January morning, two psychotherapists from the Bay Area arrived at the Greyhound bus station in San Antonio, Texas to meet with dozens of migrant families who had just been dropped off by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two bilingual therapists, Alicia Cruz and Chris Mullen, have worked together for a decade at Kaiser in San Francisco and see clients in offices right next to each other. They were prepared to put their therapeutic skills to use in the most unlikely place: the waiting area inside the bus station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was easy for the women to spot the parents and children just released from detention: They were wearing brightly colored sweatsuits, parkas and brandless tennis shoes issued to them by ICE. The families were delivered there from the country’s two largest ICE family detention centers, each about an hour away, and issued one-way tickets to travel on to relatives or sponsors around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The families crammed onto metal benches, with bags of belongings stuffed under their feet. Several nuns and volunteers from local churches handed out box lunches and backpacks containing toiletries and stuffed animals for the kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clipboards in hand, Cruz and Mullen worked their way down the rows of benches, offering legal information. They also asked parents if they were willing to talk about their experiences crossing the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11721291 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Area therapists, Chris Mullen and Alicia Cruz counsel asylum seekers released from detention in Texas\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34822_IMG_9264-qut-e1548469438640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco therapists Chris Mullen (left) and Alicia Cruz speak with a migrant mother just released from detention. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mullen and Cruz were so moved by news accounts of migrant families being detained at the border, that they used vacation days for the trip, working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.raicestexas.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RAICES\u003c/a>, a Texas nonprofit that provides legal help to asylum seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told my boys, ‘It’s not a choice for me. I’ve got to go help,’” said Cruz, whose two sons, ages 7 and 11, have helped collect toys to donate to the children in Texas. “It was an immense pull that I couldn’t really explain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More Central American Families Seek Asylum in the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although the total number of people apprehended crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped significantly in recent years, the number of families has grown dramatically, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2017-Dec/BP%20Total%20Monthly%20Family%20Units%20by%20Sector%2C%20FY13-FY17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15,000\u003c/a> people traveling in families in 2013 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration/fy-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">107,000\u003c/a> last year. Most are fleeing gang violence, government corruption or extreme poverty in their home countries in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after a controversial family separation policy was struck down by the courts, the Trump Administration proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-administration-new-indefinite-family-detention-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan\u003c/a> to hold parents and children indefinitely in ICE custody — part of an effort to terminate a longstanding legal agreement that limits ICE detention of children. But ICE has space for about 3,600 people in its three family facilities and advocates in Texas say the families released at the bus station have typically been held by ICE for a week or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721299\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11721299 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Asylum seeking families take Greyhound buses to family and sponsor across the country.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34845_IMG_9403-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE releases dozens of migrant families a day to the Greyhound Station in San Antonio, Texas. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the families Cruz and Mullen met at the Greyhound station were coughing and had fevers, looking dazed in their first moments of freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz said these families have been through a lot. After surviving violence in their home countries, she said, they are often re-traumatized by the dangerous journey here and their time in U.S. detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz and Mullen handed out plastic bags of Legos to the children so they can play while their parents talk. Most of the migrants don’t want their names used because they fear for the safety of their families. Mullen sat down with a man from Guatemala while his 9-year-old son drew in a coloring book nearby. Mullen asked him why they left home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I had never thought of leaving,” the 29-year-old father replied, “because everything I have is there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father told Mullen that drug traffickers had built landing strips in the jungle near his town and he saw local police driving back and forth each time airplanes landed. One day a friend told him his name was on a government official’s hit list. The next day, that friend disappeared and that’s when he knew he had to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the man spoke, tears dropped steadily onto the sleeve of his jacket. He told Mullen he crossed the border into California last month by climbing a tree with his son clinging to his back and leaping onto the wall, then down onto U.S. soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told my son to grab my neck and hold on really tight because I was going to jump,” he said. “I told him, ‘You have to hold on so you don’t fall.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he and his son spent six days in a Border Patrol station, where they were given cold bean burritos for every meal, before they were transferred to an ICE facility for fathers and sons in Karnes City, Texas. Now they are heading to the East Coast to stay with relatives while their asylum claim is adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Limits to Detention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Under a 1997 legal settlement known as Flores, unaccompanied migrant children are not supposed to be held in US Customs and Border Protection facilities for longer than 72 hours except in “exceptional circumstances,” and they must be provided adequate food and shelter during their stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, attorneys for migrant children filed affidavits with a federal judge documenting numerous violations of the settlement. These included migrants’ lack of access to clean drinking water, being fed inadequate or inedible food, and being subject to unsanitary conditions, extreme cold and sleep deprivation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after two children died in CBP custody in December, officials indicated they would work to transfer parents and children to ICE family detention centers more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘You could see sometimes how intense and overwhelmed they are when they’re reliving their trauma because it’s still very raw and fresh.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Alicia Cruz\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security declined to confirm whether that has occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman called the current situation “an immigration crisis,” and blamed the federal courts for creating a “loophole that rewards parents for bringing their children with them to the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as activist judges continue to set national immigration policy they continue to put family units and innocent children in harm’s way,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dozens of interviews in the Greyhound station, parents from Central American countries described dire conditions they endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One young mother, also from Guatemala, told Cruz she fled because a gang tried to extort money from her and threatened to kill her family when she did not pay up. As she described crossing the Rio Grande with her 10-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, she started to cry, remembering her fear that they might die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we crossed the river, we got lost,” she said. “We didn’t have any water to drink. We spent four, five hours lost before we got picked up by immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother told Cruz that Border Patrol agents locked the family in a cold, windowless room for four days, and only gave them one sandwich and one juice box a day. When her children cried, she said, agents told her to shut them up. “’This isn’t your country’,” she said they told her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the family was transferred to ICE, the mother said they were given enough food to eat and access to showers, but she told Cruz she regrets putting her children through the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it would be easy to come here,” she said. “People told me, ‘Just turn yourself in to immigration!’ But no, it’s very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz listened attentively and reflected back what she’d heard: that the mother made the only choice she could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is you didn’t come because you wanted to, you came because you had to,” Cruz said. “It’s important to remember that even though your children suffered, you had to come to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman nodded and wiped away her tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of hours later, she and her kids boarded a bus to San Francisco, a trip that takes 39 hours. In her pocket was some cash Cruz gave her for meals, along with the name of a trauma recovery center in San Francisco that works with asylum seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714666/migrant-boy-8-dies-in-government-custody-in-new-mexico-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Migrant Boy, 8, Dies in Government Custody in New Mexico Hospital\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712244/judges-ask-ice-to-make-courts-off-limits-to-immigration-arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judges Ask ICE to Make Courts Off Limits to Immigration Arrests\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718987/thousands-more-migrant-children-may-have-been-separated-from-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thousands More Migrant Children May Have Been Separated From Families\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cruz said many of these families will need ongoing help to recover from what they’ve gone through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could see sometimes how intense and overwhelmed they are when they’re reliving their trauma,” she said, “because it’s still very raw and fresh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and Mullen also know that the migrants will need to be able to talk about their experiences in a coherent and compelling way when it comes time for an interview with an asylum officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullen said when someone is in a state of shock, they don’t always sound convincing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re really disconnected — and that’s often the case with PTSD — it sounds insincere and also it can be very vague,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two women spent five long days counseling migrants at the bus station. After flying home to her own children, Cruz said she struggled to process what she heard from parents about the mistreatment of children in Border Patrol custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How they were being yelled at for crying, or manhandled,” Cruz said. “I can’t imagine how their brain makes sense of that — because they are so little. As someone in the mental health field, that really worries me how this is all going to manifest itself in this child as he grows up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz plans to return to San Antonio as often as she can. Her family and other parents at her son’s school have already donated enough money and frequent flyer miles for her next trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Justice Department added another piece to the puzzle of its Russia investigation on Friday with charges \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/25/615518287/trump-confidant-roger-stone-indicted-on-seven-counts-related-to-2016-election-at\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against GOP political consultant Roger Stone\u003c/a> — but the full picture still isn’t complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone was arrested in Florida following \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5694753-Special-Counsel-Robert-Mueller-s-Indictment-of\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an indictment\u003c/a> by a grand jury working with the office of special counsel Robert Mueller. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He denied breaking the law and said he’ll plead not guilty when he’s arraigned later in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say Stone and at least two of his associates served as intermediaries between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and “Organization 1” — as WikiLeaks is referred to in the court document — which fenced material stolen by the Russian government as part of the Kremlin’s scheme to wreak havoc in the 2016 White House race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After WikiLeaks released emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee in July 2016, “a senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Stone” to ask what else WikiLeaks had planned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone then pinged “Person 1” — conservative commentator Jerome Corsi — and instructed him to “get the pending … emails” from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the start of what appeared to be weeks’ worth of indirect communication between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks through Stone and his associates, according to the indictment — and, via WikiLeaks, with Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges Stone is facing are about the accounts he gave to Congress about these events. Stone vowed Friday that he’ll fight the charges and said he expects to be “vindicated” in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Trump lawyer highlighted on Friday that the charges in the Stone indictment, however, aren’t about collusion — they’re about the statements Stone made to Congress and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The indictment today does not allege Russian collusion by Roger Stone or anyone else,” said Trump personal attorney Jay Sekulow. “Rather, the indictment focuses on alleged false statements Mr. Stone made to Congress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Sarah Sanders attempted to distance the president from the indictment and arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The president did nothing wrong,” Sanders said in a Friday morning cable TV interview. “There was no collusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the president himself has frequently asserted via Twitter in the past two years that there was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088832908494888961\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">“NO COLLUSION!”\u003c/a> between his 2016 campaign and any Russian election interference effort and called suggestions otherwise a “hoax.” Trump has also frequently referred to the Mueller investigation as \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088832908494888961\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a “witch hunt.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stone indictment raises as many questions as it answers. Although the account it gives clarifies a few key points about the events of 2016, there are also important things that it doesn’t say.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Did any of the Americans know they were ultimately dealing with Russia?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2016, the fact of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/25/586099619/the-russia-investigations-what-you-need-to-know-about-russian-active-measures\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia’s “active measures” \u003c/a>was the subject of speculation, anonymous quotes and supposition — but was not officially confirmed in public. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Mueller’s office has detailed some of Russia’s practices: Its use of social media agitation to deepen divisions among Americans, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628773789/deputy-attorney-general-rod-rosenstein-unveils-new-hacking-charges-in-dnc-case\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the cyberattacks\u003c/a> against political and other targets in search of embarrassing dirt to release. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now is what Stone, Trump’s then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Trump’s family or Trump himself knew about what was taking place behind the scenes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has gone back and forth then and now about what he accepts about the Russian election interference in 2016. But at the time he was consistent about how much he loved WikiLeaks and urged voters to focus on what it was revealing about the Democrats, no matter where the material was coming from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The inside game\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events of July 2016 followed many contacts by Russians or their agents with people in the Trump campaign — including a meeting the previous month hosted by Donald Trump Jr., following an offer of help for the campaign, again via intermediaries, from the Russian government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort also met at least once with a business associate who has been linked to the GRU and, according to court documents, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/08/683327144/manafort-allegedly-shared-2016-polling-with-associate-linked-to-russian-intellig\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly discussed polling data from the campaign\u003c/a>, although the details about that meeting aren’t clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even as Trump’s political fortunes improved throughout 2016, he and his deputies \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/29/671864979/trump-moscow-real-estate-talks-continued-into-presidential-run-documents-show\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were negotiating with powerful Russians\u003c/a> behind the scenes over a potential Trump Tower project in Moscow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors haven’t established whether any contacts included information about Russia’s broader program of interference, or specifically whether anyone in Trump’s camp knew that Russia was behind the WikiLeaks releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Trump’s campaign know what the Russians were doing? Or did it embrace the support it was getting without being aware of its ultimate benefactor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/03/663457964/the-russia-investigations-is-the-endgame-now-in-sight\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WikiLeaks has denied\u003c/a> it received the stolen material from a Russian source. And \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1088804095316684801\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it said on Friday of the Stone indictment\u003c/a> that there was “new evidence of no ‘back channel’ with” it. But, according to Mueller’s earlier indictment of 12 GRU officers, the Russian spies used the fake persona they created, “Guccifer 2.0,” to give stolen material to WikiLeaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors haven’t made clear whether they believe Assange knew for certain that he was actually dealing with the Russian government, although Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, when he was director of the CIA, declared unequivocally that WikiLeaks is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cia-director-pompeo-calls-wikileaks-hostile-intelligence-service-n746311\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">“hostile intelligence service.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The outside game\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the clandestine contacts, some actions took place in the open. Trump, for example, made a leitmotif of the emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from the private server she used while she was secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/31/537926933/2016-under-scrutiny-a-timeline-of-russia-connections\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On July 27, 2016, Trump said\u003c/a>: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing … I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/14/628905825/the-russia-investigations-6-key-insights-from-the-cyberspy-indictment\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There are suggestions that Russia was listening\u003c/a>: According to Mueller’s indictment of 12 GRU officers, the Russian spy agency ramped up its cyberattacks against Clinton and her presidential campaign that same day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was Trump being facetious because he considered all the discussion about Russian election interference to be a joke? Or did he have reason to expect that someone in Russia might be paying attention when he spoke? \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What communications did WikiLeaks potentially have with others in Stone’s circle?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Much of the contact prosecutors contend took place between Americans and WikiLeaks allegedly was actually via two Stone associates: conservative commentator Jerome Corsi and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/25/623199053/mueller-seeks-interview-with-disputed-link-between-trump-campaign-wikileaks\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">radio host Randy Credico\u003c/a>, who has denied being a link between WikiLeaks and Stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statement issued by Corsi’s lawyers Friday says the Stone indictment vindicates Corsi — in Corsi’s view. Although Corsi contends that he testified truthfully before the grand jury and during his interviews with prosecutors, Corsi may yet face charges of his own from the special counsel, as he has said he has already walked away from a plea agreement about alleged lying about his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A passage in the indictment unsealed on Friday suggested that someone was not only telling Corsi about WikiLeaks’ intentions, but about messaging for use against Clinton. Specifically, Corsi began to recommend to Stone that Clinton needed to be portrayed as unhealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would not hurt to start suggesting HRC old, memory bad, has stroke — neither he nor she well,” he wrote on Aug. 2, according to the indictment. “I expect that much of next dump focus, setting stage for Foundation debacle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, neither Clinton’s health nor the Clinton Foundation were the focus of the next WikiLeaks release, but a messaging campaign based on Clinton’s supposed ill health took off in August 2016. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russia’s state-controlled RT news site mentioned Clinton’s “bad health,” the \u003cem>National Enquirer\u003c/em> published a piece about it, Fox News host Sean Hannity discussed it on TV and then \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/08/18/490390614/trump-adds-fuel-to-conspiracy-theories-questioning-clintons-health\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump himself was warning about Clinton’s fitness by Aug. 18\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was Assange the conduit for this messaging strategy?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What action did the Trump campaign take based on its alleged communications with WikiLeaks?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stone took credit, according to the indictment unsealed Friday, for telling the Trump campaign beforehand about the Oct. 7, 2016, release by WikiLeaks of emails stolen from Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has said since that he didn’t have any inside information and he was just puffing up his own importance — taking things Assange was saying publicly and making it appear to Trump’s campaign that Stone had learned them through some kind of inside line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s lawyer, Giuliani, said in December that Stone hadn’t given the campaign a heads-up but even if he had — as prosecutors now allege — \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rudy-giuliani-investigations-surrounding-president-donald-trump-left/story?id=59839387\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that isn’t a crime\u003c/a>. Giuliani compared it to getting a tip that a newspaper is about to run a story before it appears. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Stone, as he and others observed on Friday, isn’t facing criminal charges related to the actions he took in 2016, but rather the accounts he’s given about them afterward to Congress and other related activity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that suggests prosecutors don’t consider Stone’s underlying conduct itself to be illegal, it also raises questions about what he or Trump campaign leaders expected out of the advance warning about the Oct. 7 disclosure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What actions did they take — or not take — with that information, if any? \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone then pinged “Person 1” — conservative commentator Jerome Corsi — and instructed him to “get the pending … emails” from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the start of what appeared to be weeks’ worth of indirect communication between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks through Stone and his associates, according to the indictment — and, via WikiLeaks, with Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges Stone is facing are about the accounts he gave to Congress about these events. Stone vowed Friday that he’ll fight the charges and said he expects to be “vindicated” in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Trump lawyer highlighted on Friday that the charges in the Stone indictment, however, aren’t about collusion — they’re about the statements Stone made to Congress and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The indictment today does not allege Russian collusion by Roger Stone or anyone else,” said Trump personal attorney Jay Sekulow. “Rather, the indictment focuses on alleged false statements Mr. Stone made to Congress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Sarah Sanders attempted to distance the president from the indictment and arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The president did nothing wrong,” Sanders said in a Friday morning cable TV interview. “There was no collusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the president himself has frequently asserted via Twitter in the past two years that there was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088832908494888961\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">“NO COLLUSION!”\u003c/a> between his 2016 campaign and any Russian election interference effort and called suggestions otherwise a “hoax.” Trump has also frequently referred to the Mueller investigation as \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088832908494888961\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a “witch hunt.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stone indictment raises as many questions as it answers. Although the account it gives clarifies a few key points about the events of 2016, there are also important things that it doesn’t say.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Did any of the Americans know they were ultimately dealing with Russia?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2016, the fact of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/25/586099619/the-russia-investigations-what-you-need-to-know-about-russian-active-measures\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia’s “active measures” \u003c/a>was the subject of speculation, anonymous quotes and supposition — but was not officially confirmed in public. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Mueller’s office has detailed some of Russia’s practices: Its use of social media agitation to deepen divisions among Americans, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628773789/deputy-attorney-general-rod-rosenstein-unveils-new-hacking-charges-in-dnc-case\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the cyberattacks\u003c/a> against political and other targets in search of embarrassing dirt to release. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now is what Stone, Trump’s then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Trump’s family or Trump himself knew about what was taking place behind the scenes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has gone back and forth then and now about what he accepts about the Russian election interference in 2016. But at the time he was consistent about how much he loved WikiLeaks and urged voters to focus on what it was revealing about the Democrats, no matter where the material was coming from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The inside game\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events of July 2016 followed many contacts by Russians or their agents with people in the Trump campaign — including a meeting the previous month hosted by Donald Trump Jr., following an offer of help for the campaign, again via intermediaries, from the Russian government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort also met at least once with a business associate who has been linked to the GRU and, according to court documents, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/08/683327144/manafort-allegedly-shared-2016-polling-with-associate-linked-to-russian-intellig\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly discussed polling data from the campaign\u003c/a>, although the details about that meeting aren’t clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even as Trump’s political fortunes improved throughout 2016, he and his deputies \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/29/671864979/trump-moscow-real-estate-talks-continued-into-presidential-run-documents-show\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were negotiating with powerful Russians\u003c/a> behind the scenes over a potential Trump Tower project in Moscow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors haven’t established whether any contacts included information about Russia’s broader program of interference, or specifically whether anyone in Trump’s camp knew that Russia was behind the WikiLeaks releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Trump’s campaign know what the Russians were doing? Or did it embrace the support it was getting without being aware of its ultimate benefactor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/03/663457964/the-russia-investigations-is-the-endgame-now-in-sight\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WikiLeaks has denied\u003c/a> it received the stolen material from a Russian source. And \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1088804095316684801\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it said on Friday of the Stone indictment\u003c/a> that there was “new evidence of no ‘back channel’ with” it. But, according to Mueller’s earlier indictment of 12 GRU officers, the Russian spies used the fake persona they created, “Guccifer 2.0,” to give stolen material to WikiLeaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors haven’t made clear whether they believe Assange knew for certain that he was actually dealing with the Russian government, although Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, when he was director of the CIA, declared unequivocally that WikiLeaks is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cia-director-pompeo-calls-wikileaks-hostile-intelligence-service-n746311\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">“hostile intelligence service.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The outside game\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the clandestine contacts, some actions took place in the open. Trump, for example, made a leitmotif of the emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from the private server she used while she was secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/31/537926933/2016-under-scrutiny-a-timeline-of-russia-connections\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On July 27, 2016, Trump said\u003c/a>: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing … I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/14/628905825/the-russia-investigations-6-key-insights-from-the-cyberspy-indictment\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There are suggestions that Russia was listening\u003c/a>: According to Mueller’s indictment of 12 GRU officers, the Russian spy agency ramped up its cyberattacks against Clinton and her presidential campaign that same day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was Trump being facetious because he considered all the discussion about Russian election interference to be a joke? Or did he have reason to expect that someone in Russia might be paying attention when he spoke? \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What communications did WikiLeaks potentially have with others in Stone’s circle?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Much of the contact prosecutors contend took place between Americans and WikiLeaks allegedly was actually via two Stone associates: conservative commentator Jerome Corsi and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/25/623199053/mueller-seeks-interview-with-disputed-link-between-trump-campaign-wikileaks\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">radio host Randy Credico\u003c/a>, who has denied being a link between WikiLeaks and Stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statement issued by Corsi’s lawyers Friday says the Stone indictment vindicates Corsi — in Corsi’s view. Although Corsi contends that he testified truthfully before the grand jury and during his interviews with prosecutors, Corsi may yet face charges of his own from the special counsel, as he has said he has already walked away from a plea agreement about alleged lying about his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A passage in the indictment unsealed on Friday suggested that someone was not only telling Corsi about WikiLeaks’ intentions, but about messaging for use against Clinton. 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He has already served five times that amount, and was released. He will no longer have a murder charge on his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan is the first person to be released from prison under SB 1437. Prior to the bipartisan bill, state law allowed people who participated in crimes that led to a death — even if they did not assist in the killing — to be convicted of felony murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this new legislation change, the law says that I’m not responsible for the murder,” said Khan. “Although the law has changed, I still do take responsibility for it, and I have since day one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was in prison, Khan got involved in criminal justice reform work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He co-founded Re:store Justice, which helped sponsor SB 1437. He also mentored youth and worked on the San Quentin video program, \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/firstwatch/#targetfwvideos\">First Watch\u003c/a>, which seeks to humanize incarceration by telling the stories of inmates. He plans to continue this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we barely touch the surface on incarcerated people telling their own stories,” said Khan. “Being out now, I want to pursue that and continue it from my side, and start telling stories about formerly incarcerated people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that much of the debate around criminal justice — and ultimately, the laws that came out of those debates in years past — was driven by anecdotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714600/california-inmates-convicted-under-felony-murder-rule-prep-for-new-shot-at-freedom\">California Inmates Convicted Under ‘Felony Murder Rule’ Prep for New Shot at Freedom\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714600/california-inmates-convicted-under-felony-murder-rule-prep-for-new-shot-at-freedom\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/featured-image.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of laws and sentencing reform and criminal justice reform is based around telling stories,” Khan said. “A lot of laws went into effect from telling the other side of the story: The dangers, the monsters, the criminals, that you can’t trust them. And I know that’s not true for many of the men and even formerly incarcerated women I’ve met. We want to highlight the stories of the great, amazing work people are doing, not only once they’re in prison, but once they get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his first week out, Khan has been focusing on reconnecting with his friends and family, and adjusting to life on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are times where I wake up in the middle of the night and I’m looking for my [cellmate] and he’s not around,” said Khan. “And then I just smile and go back to sleep. And sometimes I wake up and feel like I’ve been here forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since being released, Khan has had to learn to text and use a smartphone, because cellphones didn’t even have cameras yet when he was incarcerated nearly 16 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did I ever expect to get out? That’s a very hard question, because some people like to say that I’m a pessimist. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this new legislation change, the law says that I’m not responsible for the murder,” said Khan. “Although the law has changed, I still do take responsibility for it, and I have since day one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was in prison, Khan got involved in criminal justice reform work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He co-founded Re:store Justice, which helped sponsor SB 1437. He also mentored youth and worked on the San Quentin video program, \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/firstwatch/#targetfwvideos\">First Watch\u003c/a>, which seeks to humanize incarceration by telling the stories of inmates. He plans to continue this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we barely touch the surface on incarcerated people telling their own stories,” said Khan. “Being out now, I want to pursue that and continue it from my side, and start telling stories about formerly incarcerated people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that much of the debate around criminal justice — and ultimately, the laws that came out of those debates in years past — was driven by anecdotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714600/california-inmates-convicted-under-felony-murder-rule-prep-for-new-shot-at-freedom\">California Inmates Convicted Under ‘Felony Murder Rule’ Prep for New Shot at Freedom\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714600/california-inmates-convicted-under-felony-murder-rule-prep-for-new-shot-at-freedom\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/featured-image.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of laws and sentencing reform and criminal justice reform is based around telling stories,” Khan said. “A lot of laws went into effect from telling the other side of the story: The dangers, the monsters, the criminals, that you can’t trust them. And I know that’s not true for many of the men and even formerly incarcerated women I’ve met. We want to highlight the stories of the great, amazing work people are doing, not only once they’re in prison, but once they get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his first week out, Khan has been focusing on reconnecting with his friends and family, and adjusting to life on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are times where I wake up in the middle of the night and I’m looking for my [cellmate] and he’s not around,” said Khan. “And then I just smile and go back to sleep. And sometimes I wake up and feel like I’ve been here forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since being released, Khan has had to learn to text and use a smartphone, because cellphones didn’t even have cameras yet when he was incarcerated nearly 16 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did I ever expect to get out? That’s a very hard question, because some people like to say that I’m a pessimist. I like to say I’m a realist,” said Khan. “And what that meant for me was I have 25 years to life. And I have 25 years to do before I’m even eligible for a parole board. And so did I ever feel like I was going home? Honestly, sometimes the hope was there. But realistically, it was too far for me to even think if I was or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan is one of the first to benefit from SB 1437 — but as many as 800 other inmates with murder convictions may be eligible for shorter sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 2:18 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court has reinstated President Trump’s ban on transgender service members in the military, granting a stay of two lower court injunctions that had blocked the president’s policy. The justices voted 5-4, reflecting the high court’s conservative majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision allows the Pentagon to bar transgender people from joining or, in some circumstances, remaining in the military while the lower court rulings are appealed. The justices did not allow the Trump administration to leapfrog the appeals court, as it had requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two cases — \u003cem>Trump v. Karnoski\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Trump v. Stockman\u003c/em> — are currently working their way through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both of those cases, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan would have maintained a stay on the ban, Tuesday’s Supreme Court order reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transgender ban is being revived more than a year after a federal court in Washington, D.C., first blocked it in October 2017. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that trans members of the military had “a strong case that the president’s ban would violate their Fifth Amendment rights,” as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/30/560847850/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-ban-on-transgender-service-members\">NPR reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/defense/423862-appeals-court-sides-with-trump-on-transgender-military-ban\">lifted Kollar-Kotelly’s injunction\u003c/a> earlier this month, concluding that the ban had been substantially revised by the time it was instituted by former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in March 2018. But other federal courts had also ruled against the ban — and until Tuesday, those other injunctions remained in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two outstanding cases come from California and Washington state, in the 9th Circuit’s jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Human Rights Campaign, which is involved in the Karnoski case in Washington state, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HRC/status/1087725575303774210\">condemned the Supreme Court’s decision\u003c/a>, saying it “thrusts this administration’s discriminatory agenda onto a military that clearly doesn’t want it, and does so at the expense of transgender people’s careers and service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shannon Minter, legal director of the San Francisco-based National Center for Lesbian Rights, one of the organizations representing plaintiffs in cases challenging the ban, called the court’s decision a “very sad day for our military, for transgender people in this country, certainly for the thousands of courageous dedicated transgender service members who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is definitely a body blow and a very traumatic moment for them to know that the United States Supreme Court has, however temporarily, allowed the Trump administration to enforce a ban that directly attacks them and falsely paints them as unfit for military service, even as they are every single day proving their fitness to serve,” Minter said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Minter was disappointed by the decision to grant the stay, he was encouraged that the Supreme Court is allowing the cases to proceed through the district courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a temporary order,” Minter said. “It theoretically does allow the government now to enforce the ban while we all wait for the 9th Circuit to rule, which is going to happen any day now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, called the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Trump’s transgender ban to temporarily take effect “deeply disappointing” and “creates unnecessary confusion for transgender individuals serving in the military.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ban would essentially restore ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ for transgender service members, only allowing them to serve if they hide their true identity,” Feinstein said in written statement. “That previous policy directed toward LGBT service members harmed our military then, just as this one will now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump announced his ban abruptly in the summer of 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890193981585444864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E890193981585444864&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2017%2F07%2F27%2F539559582%2F5-unanswered-questions-about-trumps-ban-on-transgender-troops\">saying in a series of tweets\u003c/a> that “the United States Government will not accept or allow…… ….Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision seemed to take Defense Department officials by surprise, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539559582/5-unanswered-questions-about-trumps-ban-on-transgender-troops\">sparking confusion\u003c/a> despite Trump’s assertion that he had consulted “with my Generals and military experts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tweets were followed by an official \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/08/25/presidential-memorandum-secretary-defense-and-secretary-homeland\">presidential memo\u003c/a> in August of that year, which gave the defense secretary (and for the Coast Guard, the Homeland Security secretary) the discretion to “determine how to address transgender individuals currently serving in the United States military.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s ban was a sharp reversal of a Pentagon policy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/30/484192442/pentagon-says-transgender-troops-can-now-serve-openly\">announced in June 2016\u003c/a>, when former Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, “Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Obama-era policy was hailed as ending an era of legal and professional limbo for trans people in the U.S. armed service; Carter said the decision was made out of a desire to attract “all talent possible” to serve in the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, researchers at the RAND Corporation think tank estimated there were as many as 7,000 active-duty transgender service members, with up to 4,000 more in the reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that policy and the lower-court injunctions, the first openly trans people were officially able to join the U.S. military \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/with-ban-lifted-trans-chicago-man-hopes-to-aim-high-with-air-force/b2f35740-bed1-494e-be57-2c5cd96124ed\">on Jan. 1, 2018\u003c/a>. But now their status is once again in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s order states that if the 9th Circuit rules against the ban, the ban on trans people in the military would remain in effect until the Supreme Court justices either deny a request to hear the case (if such an application is made) or rule against the Trump administration’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Domenico Montanaro and KQED’s Ted Goldberg contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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