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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s just disgraceful that people who are working to serve the public are put in a position where they’re having to rely on food banks to feed themselves or their family. There’s absolutely no excuse for this,” Mudrock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food bank also said it supported around 1,200 federal employees — including TSA officers, Coast Guard, Federal Bureau of Prisons and IRS employees — with groceries during a lapse in federal funding in 2018. Young said the food bank is also prepared for the possibility that the current deadlock could drag on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that we saw back in 2018 is that when something continues to go on, the need increases dramatically,” Young said. “So we are absolutely prepared for what we may need to do in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with food assistance, Mudrock said a prolonged lack of pay could have serious consequences for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t just go to the company that’s holding your mortgage and say, ‘Well, I’ll probably get a check in like a month or so, maybe, just hold off until then.’ Things don’t work that way,” Mudrock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TSA officials did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251016_FOODBANKSHUTDOWN-_GH-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251016_FOODBANKSHUTDOWN-_GH-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251016_FOODBANKSHUTDOWN-_GH-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251016_FOODBANKSHUTDOWN-_GH-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TSA officers organize cartons of eggs in a breakroom refrigerator at Oakland International Airport on Oct. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with TSA officers, Skantz said air traffic controllers with the Federal Aviation Administration and some employees with Customs and Border Protection are also currently working at the airport without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, we’ve been fortunate in that we have not had any significant impacts to airport operations as a result of the shutdown,” Skantz said. “Obviously, we are continuing to monitor the situation closely just to ensure that passengers and cargo are able to pass through OAK safely throughout the shutdown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OAK is one of several airports in the Bay Area that are not playing a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming congressional Democrats for the lapse in federal funding, Skantz said earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this, many of our operations are impacted, and most of our TSA employees are working without pay,” Noem said in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airport leaders around the country have declined to show the video, fearing it violates state or federal laws prohibiting the use of public resources for political messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday afternoon to approve a $3.57 million emergency allocation to dramatically scale up legal services, community outreach and rapid response networks for the county’s immigrant and refugee residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sourced primarily from the Measure W Essential Services Fund, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_10_14_25/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/Supervisor%20Fortunato%20Bas_Supervisor%20M%c3%a1rquez_394335.pdf\">the allocation\u003c/a> includes $2.5 million designated for immigrant and refugee support and an additional $1 million for a flexible contingency pool. The funds will extend and increase contracts for three frontline community coalitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These funds extend the county’s initial $3.5 million emergency package approved on March 11, which helped establish the rapid response services now facing critical demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spearheaded by Supervisors Nikki Fortunato Bas and Elisa Márquez, the action is a direct response to what county staff reports describe as “exponentially more attacks” and “unprecedented levels” of federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about real-time response and building an infrastructure that will continue to educate and empower our communities to withstand this escalation of threats and attacks,” Márquez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050001\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person holds a red card, listing people’s rights and protections if they are approached by ICE agents, in Oakland on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the new federal budget, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is set to receive an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910650/ices-budget-just-tripled-whats-next\">additional $75 billion\u003c/a> over four years, representing a more than 300% increase in enforcement and detention capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bas said that residents demanded greater support after a recent Supreme Court ruling that allows federal ICE agents to conduct stops based on perceived ethnicity, raising concerns about heightened racial profiling. The move also follows an incident last month where federal immigration officers\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057368/unprecedented-ice-arrest-inside-oakland-courthouse-draws-backlash\"> detained a man inside an Oakland courthouse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the surge in ICE arrests again, the targeting of our immigrant communities, the community has come to us to say it is urgent that we boost our capacity,” Bas said. “This will allow us to expand the rapid response hotline into the weekends and continue defending immigrants in our legal system to ensure they have due process.”[aside postID=news_12057368 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS24077_Courthouse-closeup-qut-1180x664.jpg']The six-month funding extension is designed to fortify the local safety net in a county where one in three residents is foreign-born and half of all children live in a mixed-status household, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_10_14_25/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/Supervisor%20Fortunato%20Bas_Supervisor%20M%c3%a1rquez_394335.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> from Bas and Márquez to the board recommending adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enforcement data for what ICE refers to as the San Francisco “Area of Responsibility,” which stretches from Kern County to Hawaii, Saipan and Guam and includes Alameda County, showed that immigration arrests doubled in early 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spike disproportionately impacts working-class families, particularly nationals from Mexico, Guatemala, India, El Salvador and Honduras, according to the supervisors’ letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Immigration Legal Education Partnership’s rapid response hotline documented a 500% surge in monthly call volume since its relaunch earlier this year, receiving over 1,300 calls between March and October 2025. At Tuesday’s meeting, ACILEP said during the weekday, one staffer currently mans the phone at a time, highlighting the group’s limited capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $3.57 million will support the county’s three core partners in scaling their services:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://acilep.org/\">ACILEP\u003c/a>: The largest portion of the funding will support the expansion of the organization’s Rapid Response Hotline to operate on weekends and ensure 24/7 coverage, alongside bolstering legal services and community volunteer network coordination.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/\">California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice\u003c/a>: The funds will maintain removal defense capacity, offset filing fees for low-income clients and fund legal education and outreach—ensuring immigrants in removal proceedings have access to due process and legal protection.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://tuwu.org/\">Trabajadores Unidos Workers United\u003c/a>: The group will use the funding to provide resources, mutual aid and community organizing opportunities to low-income immigrant workers and their families.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The board also designated $50,000 for the Alameda County Public Defender’s Office. This funding will help offset skyrocketing immigration application and litigation fees for low-income clients, such as the recent significant increase in costs for asylum applications and green cards following the passage of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful” budget bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike all three of its neighboring counties — Contra Costa, San Francisco and Santa Clara — Alameda County does not currently operate a dedicated Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055079\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00840_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00840_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00840_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00840_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A day laborer waits for work on International Boulevard at a U-Haul in Oakland on Sept. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We definitely have to do more strategic planning and develop stronger infrastructure for the long term,” Márquez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Together, an ad hoc committee prioritizing equity and inclusion for residents, recommended that the county establish such an office, which would be tasked with coordinating resources, overseeing immigrant-serving programs and advising the Board on responsive policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County staff have been directed to return to the Board on Oct. 21 with a comprehensive coordination plan, and again on Oct. 28. The county is engaging with philanthropy, including the San Francisco Foundation’s new initiative, the Stand Together Bay Area Fund, to support these initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that people have a sense of belonging in this county,” Márquez said. “By us investing in these services, to acknowledge the challenges that are occurring and finding a way to mitigate that, just reaffirms our commitment to being a space and inclusive community for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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At Tuesday’s meeting, ACILEP said during the weekday, one staffer currently mans the phone at a time, highlighting the group’s limited capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $3.57 million will support the county’s three core partners in scaling their services:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://acilep.org/\">ACILEP\u003c/a>: The largest portion of the funding will support the expansion of the organization’s Rapid Response Hotline to operate on weekends and ensure 24/7 coverage, alongside bolstering legal services and community volunteer network coordination.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/\">California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice\u003c/a>: The funds will maintain removal defense capacity, offset filing fees for low-income clients and fund legal education and outreach—ensuring immigrants in removal proceedings have access to due process and legal protection.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://tuwu.org/\">Trabajadores Unidos Workers United\u003c/a>: The group will use the funding to provide resources, mutual aid and community organizing opportunities to low-income immigrant workers and their families.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The board also designated $50,000 for the Alameda County Public Defender’s Office. 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"content": "\u003cp>After a yearslong holdup, Alameda County has started distributing funds from Measure C, a 2020 ballot measure that uses a half-cent sales tax to increase access to child care and preschool for the county’s youngest residents. Now, officials from other Bay Area counties are considering doing the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055336/alameda-county-is-giving-cash-to-child-care-providers-other-bay-area-counties-are-envious\">Alameda County Is Giving Cash to Child Care Providers. Other Bay Area Counties Are Envious\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8128644045&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there are errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:01:35] According to federal data, families in the Bay Area face some of the highest costs for child care. We recently put out a survey asking families in the Bay Area how much they pay for childcare and we got some really surprising answers. Some families were telling me that they pay $2,400 per month and it’s not even for full-time childcare. It causes them to have to make some tough choices. Like one parent has left the workforce to care for their kids or they’ve had to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:25] So Daisy, we’re talking today because Alameda County is throwing a bunch of money into the child care system. Where is this money coming from?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] So the money is coming from a half-cent sales tax known as Measure C, and it was something that voters passed more than five years ago to increase access to child care and preschool and also health care for the county’s youngest residents. The tax is expected to generate about $150 million per year, but a taxpayer group’s lawsuit, held up the money until recently. What’s interesting is that during these years of litigation, the county went ahead to collect the tax and placed it in a trust, so that money grew to about a billion dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:14] Oh wow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:03:14] Mm-hmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:15] And now we’re at a point where this money is actually being distributed, right? Who are some of the people who are benefiting from this tax?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:03:27] It’s going into the hands of child care providers who are at risk of closing their doors. It could be a small business owner who rents a daycare out of their home, or it could be big child care center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:03:41] All the money I earn is for my daycare. It goes back in my day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:03:46] Lisa Zarodney is a family child care provider. She’s been providing care out of her home in Livermore for the last 27 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:03:55] I love what I do and I’ve been doing it for song because I love it not because I make money off of it because I don’t pay myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:03] What did she tell you about, I guess, what the last few years as a child care worker has been like for her, especially since the pandemic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:04:13] Fewer kids were coming to her home during the pandemic. And then I think even after the reopening, a lot of parents who were working from home kept their kids at home as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] And slowly but surely, a lot of these providers, including myself, are in jeopardy of closing their doors because we just can’t catch up from\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:04:36] And then there was this new program in California called Transitional Kindergarten, so some of the older kids, the four-year-olds, there are families who are choosing to take their kids out of her program and putting their kids in free school, right, public school. All those things made her programs under-enrolled, so she was losing money, but at the same she had to, you know, continue paying for her rent, her utilities. All the expenses that come with running a business out of your home. She said her credit card bill, she racked up up to $50,000 in credit card, and the way she was also just managing to get through this difficult financial period was drawing from her late husband’s insurance and retirement fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:05:28] But on the back end, I have to pay taxes on that. I can’t do anything with my own family and my own grandkids because I don’t have the money to enjoy a life outside of just taking care of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:42] Daisy first interviewed Lisa back in March of this year, when the funds from Alameda County’s Measure C were still being held up by lawsuits. But this summer, five years after voters passed Measure C, the County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to spend the money. And in August, Lisa finally got the help she needed. Daisy checked back in with her once she got the money So she’s among the folks who Measure C is supposed to help, it sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] How much money did she get from Measure C and what did she say about how it helped her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:06:28] The county started issuing big checks. They are one-time emergency grants ranging from $40,000 to $100,000 depending on the type of child care provider. She received a $40,000 check in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] It was amazing. I couldn’t get the smile off my face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:06:48] You know, it didn’t completely reduce her credit card bill, but it reduced it to a manageable level because now the kids are coming back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:06:56] I just needed that one check. I got it. And now I can get new toys for the kids. I can outside stuff for the toys for kids. I can pay my back credit card bill that I’ve been paying on and living on. The interest alone will kill you. So it’s just so many things that are starting to come together. Mostly part of that is because of measure C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:07:20] She told me it was relief, it helped her stabilize and it took a huge burden off her shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:07:29] It was like finally something went right. After everything that I went through and with the possibility of shutting down and all the emotions, it was finally gonna be okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:42] How does the money given to people like Lisa, how does that trickle down to helping parents who are paying for childcare in the Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:07:53] Well for Lisa, she thought she was going to have to close her business by the end of this year because she was facing so much debt. And a person like her leaving the field, it just creates more fragility in the system. What’s special about in-home daycare providers is that they are caring for kids sometimes around the clock or during weekends or evenings hours. So that really accommodate parents who might work a night shift. Those are the parents who really rely on that type of service. And when there are fewer of providers like Lisa, then parents are really in a better place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:38] And it makes whatever childcare options are left more expensive, it sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:08:45] It costs a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:52] Coming up, the other Bay Area counties looking for a local solution to the childcare crisis. Stay with us. How unique is what Alameda County is doing to address the childcare crisis in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:09:18] Alameda is not the only county doing this. It’s just the latest county in the Bay Area to distribute money from a dedicated tax. San Francisco has been doing the same, and for longer, it uses funds from a commercial property tax to offer families free or subsidized childcare, to add more childcare facilities, and to pay early educators a living wage. Sonoma County is also doing the same. It’s starting to spend funds from a quarter cent sales tax to offer some grants to early educators and to improve childcare facilities. Why are these local governments turning to tax measures in particular? These local governments are turning to local tax measures because state funding has declined. California has long used a tobacco tax to fund early childhood services, but as you know, that tax has declined as tobacco use has also declined. Federal funding for early childhood programs like Head Start are, you know, facing an uncertain future under the current Trump administration. 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It is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eric Lucan \u003c/strong>[00:11:22] We’ve seen successful measures in San Francisco, in Alameda, in Sonoma County and there’s lots of questions around Moran if that’s the path to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:11:33] Eric Lucan is a Marin County supervisor. He’s also a dad. He has two young kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eric Lucan \u003c/strong>[00:11:40] On average, almost $2,000 a month is what we were paying. There was about a five-month period of time when my wife and I were paying that for both kids at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:11:52] He wants to place a child care funding tax on next year’s ballot. He was also involved in a similar effort in 2016, which failed. But he thinks this time the issue is gaining political momentum in Marin because child care costs has just become so expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Speier \u003c/strong>[00:12:11] They’re choking on their costs and if they can’t make it here, they’re going to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:12:18] Jackie Speier is a supervisor in San Mateo County. She’s been really focused on the high cost of childcare in San Matteo County, because she’s also a grandmother and she’s seeing her children grapple with trying to find affordable and available childcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Speier \u003c/strong>[00:12:40] And in San Mateo County, there’s an annual loss of about $80 million due to childcare pickups that a family has. There’s about $775 million of lost economic productivity. 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Where is this money coming from?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] So the money is coming from a half-cent sales tax known as Measure C, and it was something that voters passed more than five years ago to increase access to child care and preschool and also health care for the county’s youngest residents. The tax is expected to generate about $150 million per year, but a taxpayer group’s lawsuit, held up the money until recently. What’s interesting is that during these years of litigation, the county went ahead to collect the tax and placed it in a trust, so that money grew to about a billion dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:14] Oh wow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:03:14] Mm-hmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:15] And now we’re at a point where this money is actually being distributed, right? Who are some of the people who are benefiting from this tax?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:03:27] It’s going into the hands of child care providers who are at risk of closing their doors. It could be a small business owner who rents a daycare out of their home, or it could be big child care center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:03:41] All the money I earn is for my daycare. It goes back in my day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:03:46] Lisa Zarodney is a family child care provider. She’s been providing care out of her home in Livermore for the last 27 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:03:55] I love what I do and I’ve been doing it for song because I love it not because I make money off of it because I don’t pay myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:03] What did she tell you about, I guess, what the last few years as a child care worker has been like for her, especially since the pandemic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:04:13] Fewer kids were coming to her home during the pandemic. And then I think even after the reopening, a lot of parents who were working from home kept their kids at home as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] And slowly but surely, a lot of these providers, including myself, are in jeopardy of closing their doors because we just can’t catch up from\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:04:36] And then there was this new program in California called Transitional Kindergarten, so some of the older kids, the four-year-olds, there are families who are choosing to take their kids out of her program and putting their kids in free school, right, public school. All those things made her programs under-enrolled, so she was losing money, but at the same she had to, you know, continue paying for her rent, her utilities. All the expenses that come with running a business out of your home. She said her credit card bill, she racked up up to $50,000 in credit card, and the way she was also just managing to get through this difficult financial period was drawing from her late husband’s insurance and retirement fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:05:28] But on the back end, I have to pay taxes on that. I can’t do anything with my own family and my own grandkids because I don’t have the money to enjoy a life outside of just taking care of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:42] Daisy first interviewed Lisa back in March of this year, when the funds from Alameda County’s Measure C were still being held up by lawsuits. But this summer, five years after voters passed Measure C, the County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to spend the money. And in August, Lisa finally got the help she needed. Daisy checked back in with her once she got the money So she’s among the folks who Measure C is supposed to help, it sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] How much money did she get from Measure C and what did she say about how it helped her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:06:28] The county started issuing big checks. They are one-time emergency grants ranging from $40,000 to $100,000 depending on the type of child care provider. She received a $40,000 check in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] It was amazing. I couldn’t get the smile off my face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:06:48] You know, it didn’t completely reduce her credit card bill, but it reduced it to a manageable level because now the kids are coming back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:06:56] I just needed that one check. I got it. And now I can get new toys for the kids. I can outside stuff for the toys for kids. I can pay my back credit card bill that I’ve been paying on and living on. The interest alone will kill you. So it’s just so many things that are starting to come together. Mostly part of that is because of measure C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:07:20] She told me it was relief, it helped her stabilize and it took a huge burden off her shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Zarodney \u003c/strong>[00:07:29] It was like finally something went right. After everything that I went through and with the possibility of shutting down and all the emotions, it was finally gonna be okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:42] How does the money given to people like Lisa, how does that trickle down to helping parents who are paying for childcare in the Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:07:53] Well for Lisa, she thought she was going to have to close her business by the end of this year because she was facing so much debt. And a person like her leaving the field, it just creates more fragility in the system. What’s special about in-home daycare providers is that they are caring for kids sometimes around the clock or during weekends or evenings hours. So that really accommodate parents who might work a night shift. Those are the parents who really rely on that type of service. And when there are fewer of providers like Lisa, then parents are really in a better place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:38] And it makes whatever childcare options are left more expensive, it sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:08:45] It costs a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:52] Coming up, the other Bay Area counties looking for a local solution to the childcare crisis. Stay with us. How unique is what Alameda County is doing to address the childcare crisis in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:09:18] Alameda is not the only county doing this. It’s just the latest county in the Bay Area to distribute money from a dedicated tax. San Francisco has been doing the same, and for longer, it uses funds from a commercial property tax to offer families free or subsidized childcare, to add more childcare facilities, and to pay early educators a living wage. Sonoma County is also doing the same. It’s starting to spend funds from a quarter cent sales tax to offer some grants to early educators and to improve childcare facilities. Why are these local governments turning to tax measures in particular? These local governments are turning to local tax measures because state funding has declined. California has long used a tobacco tax to fund early childhood services, but as you know, that tax has declined as tobacco use has also declined. Federal funding for early childhood programs like Head Start are, you know, facing an uncertain future under the current Trump administration. So you know those are reasons why counties are looking for local solutions to make child care more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:44] Well, are other Bay Area counties interested in doing what Alameda County and I guess some of these other municipalities are doing to help the system of child care?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:10:58] In the Bay Area? Yeah, like Measure C in Alameda County or Baby Prop C in San Francisco, they’re seen as models for other counties that are looking for a local solution. In places like Marin County, like the cost of an infant care at a center has risen to $32,000 per year. Oh my gosh, that’s crazy. It is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eric Lucan \u003c/strong>[00:11:22] We’ve seen successful measures in San Francisco, in Alameda, in Sonoma County and there’s lots of questions around Moran if that’s the path to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:11:33] Eric Lucan is a Marin County supervisor. He’s also a dad. He has two young kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eric Lucan \u003c/strong>[00:11:40] On average, almost $2,000 a month is what we were paying. There was about a five-month period of time when my wife and I were paying that for both kids at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:11:52] He wants to place a child care funding tax on next year’s ballot. He was also involved in a similar effort in 2016, which failed. But he thinks this time the issue is gaining political momentum in Marin because child care costs has just become so expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Speier \u003c/strong>[00:12:11] They’re choking on their costs and if they can’t make it here, they’re going to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:12:18] Jackie Speier is a supervisor in San Mateo County. She’s been really focused on the high cost of childcare in San Matteo County, because she’s also a grandmother and she’s seeing her children grapple with trying to find affordable and available childcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Speier \u003c/strong>[00:12:40] And in San Mateo County, there’s an annual loss of about $80 million due to childcare pickups that a family has. There’s about $775 million of lost economic productivity. So this is economic survival for our county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/strong>[00:12:59] There was a countywide survey that found more than 45% of parents left the workforce to care for their children. I’m sure most of those were moms too. So that’s like women leaving the workforce. Jackie Spear told me that she wants to copy Alameda’s sales tax model, but she’s worried about putting it on next year’s ballot because it may wind up competing with a potential sales tax measure to fund the Bay Area’s crippling transit system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Speier \u003c/strong>[00:13:32] My goal was to put the sales tax on the ballot in next November. I may still try to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:39] I mean, it seems like there’s a lot of momentum around support, like local governments trying to support the childcare systems in their respective counties. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a>’s Board of Supervisors voted Friday to approve — but not implement — a long-awaited ethical investment \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_11_12_24/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/Supervisor%20Carson_378681.pdf\">policy \u003c/a>barring investments of public funds in companies that knowingly and directly enable human rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the policy does not mention Israel by name, pro-Palestinian activists hope it will provide a framework to divest from companies with business ties to Israel. Jewish residents supportive of Israel, however, said they worry the new investment policy will normalize hate against Israel and, in turn, Jewish people at a time when reports of antisemitism are on the rise in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy would also encourage investment in entities that align with the county’s stated goals and values. But it does not take effect until the county can hire a consultant who, with local officials, would conduct a peer review of the drafted policy and present findings or recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ethical investment policy was drafted by Alameda County Treasurer-Tax Collector Henry C. Levy. The board’s approval of the policy followed a December 2024 decision by Levy to sell off the county’s $32 million worth of bonds from construction company Caterpillar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s use of Caterpillar’s armored heavy machinery — including in their construction of West Bank settlements that are illegal under international law — has made the company a frequent target of divestment advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy, who is Jewish, explained his rationale in \u003ca href=\"https://jweekly.com/2025/01/10/im-a-jewish-elected-official-heres-why-i-divested-our-county-from-caterpillar/\">a January opinion article\u003c/a> for The Jewish News of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056800\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian activists tried to block access to the Port of Oakland on Sept. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The bulldozing of Palestinian homes appeared to be against our county’s official goals for our own residents that include ‘eliminate homelessness,’ ‘eliminate poverty and hunger’ and ‘accessible infrastructure.’ In the end, it was not a difficult decision for me to sell Caterpillar,” Levy wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people showed up to the meeting, hoping to share public comment, many wearing keffiyehs and holding signs reading “LET GAZA LIVE” or “NO BOMBS IN OUR MONEY.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My congregation, along with the vast majority of people who have come here to speak, is in strong support of the EIP,” said Allison Tanner, a pastor at Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church in Oakland. “It reflects the faith values of my congregation, affirming the sacredness of all human beings and also the need to create structures that ensure their safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the policy, including members of the Jewish Community Relations Council, also spoke.[aside postID=news_12056787 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250919-GAZA-PROTEST-OAKLAND-MD-03-KQED.jpg']“While there’s nothing wrong with ethical investment, that’s not really what this policy is about. How do I know that? By looking around this room, people talking about it are talking only about Israel,” said Karen Stiller, senior director of Jewish affairs for JCRC. “The only foreign conflict that ever gets discussed in this room is Israel and Palestine. Why is that a problem? It’s a problem because it’s created an environment where antisemitism thrives and Jews are simply attacked for caring about their Israeli friends and family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Jewish speakers mentioned rising antisemitism and fears for their safety as part of their reason for opposing the policy, while others emphasized that their Jewish beliefs compelled them to support the policy and minimize complicity in the suffering of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas was the only member of the board to vote no on Friday, only because she preferred that the new policy be implemented immediately — not just approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I support the policy as is, I think this is not the right decision,” Fortunato Bas said, eliciting cheers from the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the board said they had concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nate Miley said he was \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Ethical_Investment_Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uncomfortable with a provision\u003c/a> that singled out specific industries — discouraging investments in companies that generate more than 10% of revenue from oil, gas and coal, firearms, tobacco, casinos and gaming, security and correctional facilities, alcoholic beverages and defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a real visceral reaction to singling out certain [industries] — you know, I drink alcohol,” Miley said. “I don’t gamble. I just have a problem earmarking certain industries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miley said he’d prefer leaving discretion to divest from specific companies to the county treasurer-tax collector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President David Haubert also questioned whether the policy would be too restrictive, leaving the county without enough investment options or resulting in lower returns on its investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to a section discouraging investments in sectors that demonstrate severe or persistent human rights violations in their operations or supply chains, including textiles and apparel, electronic equipment and agricultural products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why aren’t we looking at the supply chain coming from China? Why aren’t we looking at Ethiopia and the Tigrays in Sudan and Darfur and Myanmar and Rohingya? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“While there’s nothing wrong with ethical investment, that’s not really what this policy is about. How do I know that? By looking around this room, people talking about it are talking only about Israel,” said Karen Stiller, senior director of Jewish affairs for JCRC. “The only foreign conflict that ever gets discussed in this room is Israel and Palestine. Why is that a problem? It’s a problem because it’s created an environment where antisemitism thrives and Jews are simply attacked for caring about their Israeli friends and family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Jewish speakers mentioned rising antisemitism and fears for their safety as part of their reason for opposing the policy, while others emphasized that their Jewish beliefs compelled them to support the policy and minimize complicity in the suffering of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas was the only member of the board to vote no on Friday, only because she preferred that the new policy be implemented immediately — not just approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I support the policy as is, I think this is not the right decision,” Fortunato Bas said, eliciting cheers from the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the board said they had concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nate Miley said he was \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Ethical_Investment_Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uncomfortable with a provision\u003c/a> that singled out specific industries — discouraging investments in companies that generate more than 10% of revenue from oil, gas and coal, firearms, tobacco, casinos and gaming, security and correctional facilities, alcoholic beverages and defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a real visceral reaction to singling out certain [industries] — you know, I drink alcohol,” Miley said. “I don’t gamble. I just have a problem earmarking certain industries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miley said he’d prefer leaving discretion to divest from specific companies to the county treasurer-tax collector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President David Haubert also questioned whether the policy would be too restrictive, leaving the county without enough investment options or resulting in lower returns on its investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to a section discouraging investments in sectors that demonstrate severe or persistent human rights violations in their operations or supply chains, including textiles and apparel, electronic equipment and agricultural products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why aren’t we looking at the supply chain coming from China? Why aren’t we looking at Ethiopia and the Tigrays in Sudan and Darfur and Myanmar and Rohingya? There are products made there, there are investments made in all sorts of areas that have problems,” Haubert said. “Indeed, if you let this keep going … we might not be able to invest in hardly anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy clarified that the policy only discourages, but doesn’t outright ban, investments in those areas. He also said he believes the policy would not lower the county’s returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County’s\u003c/a> Department of Children and Family Services regularly fails to investigate allegations of child abuse and neglect in a timely manner, leaving children in potentially unsafe situations, according to a new state report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2024-108/\">report\u003c/a> released Tuesday, state auditor Grant Parks found the department often did not start investigations within the required timeframe, failed to adequately report critical incidents at its Transitional Shelter Care Facility and did not ensure foster youth received necessary physical and mental health services promptly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until the department addresses these significant shortcomings, it cannot ensure that it is taking sufficient action to address the health and safety needs of Alameda County’s youth,” Parks wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Aisha Wahab, D-Fremont, requested the audit last year amid ongoing concerns about the county’s foster care system, which has faced criticism after several high-profile cases where officials seemingly failed to act despite repeated warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am requesting this audit due to years of issues within the Department of Children and Family Services within Alameda County’s Social Services Agency, especially concerning foster youth,” Wahab wrote in April 2024. “There are clear systemic failures and a lack of administrative planning to support foster youth with emerging and complex needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2022 death of 8-year-old Sophia Mason drew criticism from family members and advocates after social workers reportedly missed multiple warnings of possible physical and sexual abuse. 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That is why we requested this audit,” Wahab said in a statement to KQED. “The findings are indisputable: Alameda County Social Services has failed too many children and families who rely on it the most. These are children in vulnerable situations and vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All kids deserve better, and it is unacceptable for government to fall short in its most basic duty of care. This audit is not the end of the conversation — it is a call to action. We must urgently rebuild trust, deliver accountability, and ensure every child has the support and protection they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s foster system also faced scrutiny following the 2015 fatal overdose of 3-year-old Mariah Mustafa, who had been returned to her foster home two weeks after being hospitalized for ingesting methamphetamine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Foster youth are some of the most vulnerable people in our community, especially young children,” Alameda County Board of Supervisors President David Haubert said. “We’re going to continue to up the pace of hiring new people, training them to do their job on time and effectively and hold them accountable for doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For immediate referrals, where youth are in imminent danger, investigations must begin within 24 hours. The audit found that the department met that standard in nearly 90% of cases.[aside postID=news_12055336 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-06-BL-KQED.jpg']For non-immediate referrals, which must begin within 10 days, investigations were started on time in only about half of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigations also exceeded the required 30-day completion window. During the 2023–24 fiscal year, the average investigation for half of non-immediate referrals lasted 105 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although delays in initiating investigations of the referrals that we selected for review were beyond the department’s control — when, for example, the department was unable to contact a family member after repeated attempts — the department could not always demonstrate why its completion of investigations took so long,” Parks wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report cited high vacancy rates among child welfare workers as a contributing factor, which doubled from 17% to 34% between the 2019–20 and 2024–25 fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks recommended that the department take several actions by January, including periodic reviews of referrals and timely supervisory review of investigation reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other changes recommended by next October include a staff survey to identify recruitment and retention barriers, increased documentation of service referrals and at least monthly reviews to ensure youth receive services within agreed-upon time frames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s Social Services Agency, which houses the Department of Children and Family Services, did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Our democracy cannot function if this continues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A client of the public defender’s office was detained in the hallways of Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland on Sept. 15, Woods said Monday. Two plainclothes agents who said they worked for ICE reportedly ushered him into an unmarked vehicle and took him to a detention center, where he remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s office did not disclose any details of the client’s pending case or say whether or not the man had legal status in the U.S. He does not appear to have any criminal convictions, according to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11357784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11357784\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE has been making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">previously unprecedented arrests\u003c/a> at California’s immigration courthouses — controlled by the federal government — since the spring, but arrests in state courts are still much more rare and, in most cases, illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators barred immigration enforcement officers from conducting arrests inside state courthouses in most cases in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057278/california-law-forbids-ice-from-making-arrests-at-courthouses-officers-are-showing-up-anyway\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> report\u003c/a> found that in some jurisdictions, ICE has been skirting these rules in recent months by waiting just outside the buildings, where the legality of conducting an arrest is more hazy. But Tuesday’s arrest inside the Alameda County Superior Court building is a clearer violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a judge called the man’s case and issued him a new court date, he reportedly stepped into the hall while his public defender remained inside the courtroom. He was arrested in the hallway, according to the public defender’s office.[aside postID=news_12057278 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/calmatters_091825_Fresno-Courthouse_LV_10.jpg']There’s only been one other known instance of an arrest inside a courthouse in California this year, according to the \u003cem>CalMatters \u003c/em>report. ICE agents arrested a person inside the Oroville courthouse in Butte County on July 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both actions appear to directly violate the 2019 law, which says that if people fear they will be arrested while attending judicial proceedings, they will be less likely to show up, threatening the function of California’s government and Californians’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the immigration crackdown of Trump’s first term, the state prohibited law enforcement agencies from making civil arrests, including immigration arrests, in courthouses when people are attending a court proceeding or conducting other legal business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should be punished for obeying a court’s request for a personal appearance,” said Alameda County deputy public defender Raha Jorjani, who supervises the office’s immigration unit. “By appearing before the criminal court, our client was obeying the rules. This is about more than one arrest. It’s about whether we are building a system rooted in justice — or one rooted in fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t immediately clear what legal action the state or county could take over the apparent violation of California law, but Woods said he would work with the sheriff, district attorney and local judges to protect the county’s courts from future ICE action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called on the agencies to commit to not cooperating with ICE and notifying each other if they learn of planned enforcement near a courthouse or jail in the county — policies included in many local sanctuary ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alameda County does not have a countywide ordinance, it adheres to California’s sanctuary state law, and multiple cities, including Oakland, have their own sanctuary ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods also asked that the county post signage requiring ICE and law enforcement officers to identify themselves upon entering courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow a racist, authoritarian regime to interfere with our local courts like this,” he said. “It’s time to pick a side. Either you allow this to happen to members of our community, or you take action to prevent it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The pinnacle experience for many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> undergraduate students is the spring commencement ceremony. Wearing their cap and gowns, thousands crowd California Memorial Stadium, the Golden Bears’ historic home, to mark the beginning of a new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Cal senior, Javier, knows he may miss this rite of passage and has prepared for a quieter triumph as the new fall semester gets underway this month. The 22-year-old sociology major, who plans to attend law school, is enrolled at UC Berkeley from Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has never set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although my body is physically confined, I keep my mind free by learning and educating myself and continuing to grow,” said Javier, who asked to be identified by his middle name on his lawyer’s advice, citing potential educational and legal repercussions, under KQED’s anonymous sources policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier, who awaits trial for an alleged violent crime, is expected to become California’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/incarcerated\">incarcerated\u003c/a> young person to graduate from a UC school after transferring from community college. His achievement is possible through a partnership between the Alameda County Office of Education and Incarceration to College, an outreach program for in-custody and out-of-custody youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12057183\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2000x1500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarceration to College, launched in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, has served more than 1,000 students across three Bay Area counties, giving them access to college readiness courses, tutoring and coaching. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program, founded by a formerly incarcerated scholar and UC Berkeley graduate, provides college readiness courses, tutoring and coaching to incarcerated students in juvenile halls in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties. Participants can be up to 25, the maximum age for a youth life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarceration to College, launched in 2020 at the height of the pandemic and grounded in cultural affirmation, has served more than 1,000 students across three counties. Last year, the program had 65 students enrolled in college while living at Bay Area juvenile halls, including eight at UC schools. This year, another incarcerated youth became the first to gain direct admission to a four-year California State University program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see them as people who are felons or have a record and now automatically need to go into the trades,” founder Shani Shay said. “Or now automatically should be looking at a job that doesn’t even align with some of the risks that they are willing to take to get out of poverty.”[aside postID=news_12001595 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0745-1020x765.jpg']That struggle marked Javier’s own childhood. He grew up in a Mexican immigrant household in Hayward with nearly a dozen family members, including his mother, siblings and other relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was heavily influenced by the gang culture of his uncles and his neighborhood. By 13, he landed in juvenile hall for assault and armed robbery, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People knew what school I went to and who I involved myself with. So I didn’t really want to go to school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 15, he said, he and his friends survived a shooting. Shortly after, in ninth grade, he dropped out. He said he felt dismissed by teachers who routinely sent him to the principal’s office for what he described as small infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 17, Javier returned to juvenile hall. There, older friends from the neighborhood who were also incarcerated encouraged him to finish high school. At first, he was discouraged because he had only about a year’s worth of credits, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, damn…I am pretty much nowhere. So that kind of made me feel ashamed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But surrounded by peers with similar experiences, classes began to feel different, Javier said. He began to feel a sense of belonging and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I went from being quiet to being the main person answering all the questions on the whiteboard, being the first one to raise his hand,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Javier graduated from high school and enrolled in online classes at Laney College in Oakland, with support from Incarceration to College. He excelled, lobbied to take a full-time course load and even cross-enrolled in a UC Berkeley class. As a junior, he transferred to Cal full-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He shone. He was an A+ student,” said Victoria Robinson, a senior lecturer in ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. “He’s thirsty for education. You can’t give him enough material…to the point where the syllabus wasn’t enough. He just wants to keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a transformative move, Robinson flipped the classroom dynamic. Instead of Javier joining remotely, she brought the classroom to him — teaching from inside the juvenile hall while students tuned in via Zoom. Some students also went to Javier’s facility to attend class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057234\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shani Shay (right), director of Incarceration to College, works with Laney College student Bryan Minero at the program’s offices on the UC Berkeley campus on Sept. 9, 2025. The initiative supports system-impacted youth in accessing higher education. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had a profound impact on UC Berkeley students,” Robinson said. At first, they had questions, but ultimately, they fully supported the arrangement. It also buoyed Jaiver, who said he sometimes faced pushback from juvenile hall staff questioning whether he was really receiving a UC Berkeley education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier’s trajectory is uncommon, especially given the disparity in college achievement for formerly incarcerated adults. A 2018 study by the Prison Policy Initiative found 4% of formerly incarcerated people held a college degree, compared to 29% of the U.S. population. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The pinnacle experience for many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> undergraduate students is the spring commencement ceremony. Wearing their cap and gowns, thousands crowd California Memorial Stadium, the Golden Bears’ historic home, to mark the beginning of a new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Cal senior, Javier, knows he may miss this rite of passage and has prepared for a quieter triumph as the new fall semester gets underway this month. The 22-year-old sociology major, who plans to attend law school, is enrolled at UC Berkeley from Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has never set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although my body is physically confined, I keep my mind free by learning and educating myself and continuing to grow,” said Javier, who asked to be identified by his middle name on his lawyer’s advice, citing potential educational and legal repercussions, under KQED’s anonymous sources policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier, who awaits trial for an alleged violent crime, is expected to become California’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/incarcerated\">incarcerated\u003c/a> young person to graduate from a UC school after transferring from community college. His achievement is possible through a partnership between the Alameda County Office of Education and Incarceration to College, an outreach program for in-custody and out-of-custody youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12057183\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2000x1500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarceration to College, launched in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, has served more than 1,000 students across three Bay Area counties, giving them access to college readiness courses, tutoring and coaching. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program, founded by a formerly incarcerated scholar and UC Berkeley graduate, provides college readiness courses, tutoring and coaching to incarcerated students in juvenile halls in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties. Participants can be up to 25, the maximum age for a youth life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarceration to College, launched in 2020 at the height of the pandemic and grounded in cultural affirmation, has served more than 1,000 students across three counties. Last year, the program had 65 students enrolled in college while living at Bay Area juvenile halls, including eight at UC schools. This year, another incarcerated youth became the first to gain direct admission to a four-year California State University program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see them as people who are felons or have a record and now automatically need to go into the trades,” founder Shani Shay said. “Or now automatically should be looking at a job that doesn’t even align with some of the risks that they are willing to take to get out of poverty.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That struggle marked Javier’s own childhood. He grew up in a Mexican immigrant household in Hayward with nearly a dozen family members, including his mother, siblings and other relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was heavily influenced by the gang culture of his uncles and his neighborhood. By 13, he landed in juvenile hall for assault and armed robbery, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People knew what school I went to and who I involved myself with. So I didn’t really want to go to school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 15, he said, he and his friends survived a shooting. Shortly after, in ninth grade, he dropped out. He said he felt dismissed by teachers who routinely sent him to the principal’s office for what he described as small infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 17, Javier returned to juvenile hall. There, older friends from the neighborhood who were also incarcerated encouraged him to finish high school. At first, he was discouraged because he had only about a year’s worth of credits, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, damn…I am pretty much nowhere. So that kind of made me feel ashamed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But surrounded by peers with similar experiences, classes began to feel different, Javier said. He began to feel a sense of belonging and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I went from being quiet to being the main person answering all the questions on the whiteboard, being the first one to raise his hand,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Javier graduated from high school and enrolled in online classes at Laney College in Oakland, with support from Incarceration to College. He excelled, lobbied to take a full-time course load and even cross-enrolled in a UC Berkeley class. As a junior, he transferred to Cal full-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He shone. He was an A+ student,” said Victoria Robinson, a senior lecturer in ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. “He’s thirsty for education. You can’t give him enough material…to the point where the syllabus wasn’t enough. He just wants to keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a transformative move, Robinson flipped the classroom dynamic. Instead of Javier joining remotely, she brought the classroom to him — teaching from inside the juvenile hall while students tuned in via Zoom. Some students also went to Javier’s facility to attend class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057234\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shani Shay (right), director of Incarceration to College, works with Laney College student Bryan Minero at the program’s offices on the UC Berkeley campus on Sept. 9, 2025. The initiative supports system-impacted youth in accessing higher education. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had a profound impact on UC Berkeley students,” Robinson said. At first, they had questions, but ultimately, they fully supported the arrangement. It also buoyed Jaiver, who said he sometimes faced pushback from juvenile hall staff questioning whether he was really receiving a UC Berkeley education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier’s trajectory is uncommon, especially given the disparity in college achievement for formerly incarcerated adults. A 2018 study by the Prison Policy Initiative found 4% of formerly incarcerated people held a college degree, compared to 29% of the U.S. population. The report cited barriers, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962706/program-offering-pell-grants-to-incarcerated-people-in-heavy-demand-in-california\">financial aid eligibility\u003c/a> and discriminatory admissions practices. Those who complete a degree beyond high school may face licensing restrictions for certain careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of students like Javier has already made a cultural shift in Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall, with more students eager to pursue higher education, said Lucia Moritz, executive director of student programs at the Alameda County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Javier] mentors other students,” Moritz said. “There’s been a lot of youth who will say, like, he’s the one who motivated me to step up my work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As graduation nears, Javier wants to attend law school because of his familiarity with the juvenile justice system. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030561/alameda-county-child-care-providers-wait-anxiously-long-held-relief-funds\">Lisa Zarodney\u003c/a> has spent 25 years caring for children in her single-story home in Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no sign on the front door or even a name for her business. Her work is hidden from view. But inside, she’s juggling a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit, Zarodney rocked a 3-month-old girl in her arms while three toddlers stacked blocks on her living room floor. They had just finished eating the lunch she made in her kitchen and were squeezing in a bit of play time before taking their naps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The work is never easy, but it’s what I love to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates that she has cared for hundreds of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But earlier this year, she thought she would have to shutter her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zarodney had racked up $50,000 in credit card debt to get through the pandemic and its aftermath. Parents working from home kept their kids at home too, or opted for California’s expanding transitional kindergarten program. At one point, only two kids were coming to her house full-time, even though she could handle up to eight. With the program underenrolled, Zarodney earned less but still had to cover food, rent, insurance and other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney stands in the doorway of the day care center she runs out of her home in Livermore on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was also diagnosed with cervical cancer, which led to thousands of dollars in medical bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was freaking out, I didn’t see (my debt) going down because interest rates don’t go down unless you pay it off,” she said, “You take one shovel out and two go in, and you just bury yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, she received a $40,000 check. The money came from Measure C, a half-cent sales tax to increase access to child care throughout Alameda County. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043521/alameda-county-supervisors-approve-long-awaited-child-care-funding\">After a yearslong holdup\u003c/a>, funds from the measure are flowing to providers like Zarodney, helping them get back on track financially so they don’t close or leave for better-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally, something went right after everything that I went through,” Zarodney said. “It was finally going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, where child care costs are among the highest in the nation, Alameda County is the latest to distribute dedicated tax revenue to caregivers and the families who rely on them.[aside postID=news_12051850 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-08-BL-KQED.jpg']San Francisco is offering families \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/annual-impact-report-2024/\">free or subsidized child care\u003c/a>, adding more child-care space and paying early educators a living wage, using funds from a commercial property tax. Last month, Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/08/26/sonoma-county-board-of-supervisors-approves-release-of-first-114-million-raised-by-tax-measure-to-support-child-care/\">released the first batch of funds\u003c/a> from a half-cent sales tax to offer grants to early educators and improve early learning facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local tax measures come as California’s tobacco tax, which has long funded early childhood services, dwindles and federal programs like Head Start face an uncertain future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of Alameda, San Francisco and Sonoma counties is the envy of advocates around the Bay who are looking for local solutions to make child care more affordable for families struggling with the high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s the only way we’re gonna be able to address it,” said Marin County Supervisor Eric Lucan, who wants to place a child care funding tax on next year’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar effort failed in 2016, but Lucan thinks the issue is gaining political support now that the cost of infant care in Marin has \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare/price-by-age-care-setting-2022\">risen to $32,000 per year\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Database of Childcare Prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government considers child care affordable when it costs no more than 7% of a family’s annual income. That means a family must earn $400,000 a year to afford infant care in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney sits with children at the day care center she runs from her home in Livermore on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>It’s not just very low-income families, we’re talking working families making good salaries that are [struggling],” Lucan said. “And when you throw in housing costs with child care costs and energy costs and everything, it’s becoming very, very unaffordable for families of young children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucan said he and his wife paid about $2,000 per month in child care for each of their two kids, and whenever he mentions the figure in conversations, “it’s pretty mind-blowing for a lot of folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who can’t afford those high monthly costs make other difficult tradeoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting in East Palo Alto, a college student described taking two-hourlong bus rides to drop off her toddler with her sister because she couldn’t find affordable child care closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier have held three of the meetings to hear from families and child care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier and Gauthier said they’re both grandmothers whose adult children are grappling with the shortage of reliable, affordable child care. They’re worried that high child care prices are driving down the birth rate, pushing young families out of the county and harming the local economy. Speier is particularly struck by \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcalltogetherbetter.org/\">a countywide survey \u003c/a>that found more than 45% of parents left the workforce to care for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think it’s a crisis that we have ignored, and we can’t do that anymore, not for the health of our communities,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier said she would like to place a half-cent sales tax measure to fund child care on the November 2026 ballot, but worries about competing with a potential sales tax measure to fund the Bay Area’s crippling transit systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to approve placing the measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier said if that happens, she will seek an alternative solution, such as tapping into funds from a \u003ca href=\"https://smcmeasurek.org/\">previously approved half-cent sales tax\u003c/a> and fees from car rentals at San Francisco International Airport. She also wants to introduce “Tri-Share,” in which workers, their employers, and government split the cost of child care. The concept was first launched in Michigan in 2021 to help families afford child care and businesses recruit and retain workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I can convince some employers to recognize that this is the way to go,” Speier said. “And it’s a benefit that they can also deduct on their business taxes. I mean, it’s not like it’s a heavy lift.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees hold signs at the Day Without Childcare rally in front of the Federal Building in San José on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She wishes San Mateo County could boldly replicate New Mexico, which is \u003ca href=\"https://knpr.org/2025-09-18/new-mexico-takes-a-big-step-toward-universal-childcare\">about to offer free child care to all parents\u003c/a>, using profits from oil and gas production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Alameda County officials approved a plan to spend roughly $1 billion generated from Measure C in the last four years. A five-year spending plan calls for boosting early educators’ wages to at least $25 per hour, subsidizing 2,400 child care slots and offering monthly stipends to an often overlooked group known as license-exempt Family, Friends and Neighbors who receive subsidies for their caregiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinetta Lewis is the director of St. Mary’s Center in West Oakland, which received a $50,000 emergency grant from the county. She gave her teachers $1,000 stipends and plans to hire a substitute so they can plan their lessons and undergo training for their professional development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although St. Mary’s pays teachers between $25 and $32 per hour, Lewis said the preschool has a hard time retaining new hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People find that this job is too hard or too taxing, so they choose a different field to be in,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Zarodney said the grant she received will help her pay down her debt to a manageable level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People keep saying ‘you must have a lot of money because you run a day care.’ And I’m like, no, you really don’t. I never pay myself,” she said. “Everything I make goes back into the day care, every single thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she will be at capacity once again, as she starts caring for the babies of two teachers who are heading back to the classroom. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The work is never easy, but it’s what I love to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates that she has cared for hundreds of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But earlier this year, she thought she would have to shutter her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zarodney had racked up $50,000 in credit card debt to get through the pandemic and its aftermath. Parents working from home kept their kids at home too, or opted for California’s expanding transitional kindergarten program. At one point, only two kids were coming to her house full-time, even though she could handle up to eight. With the program underenrolled, Zarodney earned less but still had to cover food, rent, insurance and other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney stands in the doorway of the day care center she runs out of her home in Livermore on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was also diagnosed with cervical cancer, which led to thousands of dollars in medical bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was freaking out, I didn’t see (my debt) going down because interest rates don’t go down unless you pay it off,” she said, “You take one shovel out and two go in, and you just bury yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, she received a $40,000 check. The money came from Measure C, a half-cent sales tax to increase access to child care throughout Alameda County. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043521/alameda-county-supervisors-approve-long-awaited-child-care-funding\">After a yearslong holdup\u003c/a>, funds from the measure are flowing to providers like Zarodney, helping them get back on track financially so they don’t close or leave for better-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally, something went right after everything that I went through,” Zarodney said. “It was finally going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, where child care costs are among the highest in the nation, Alameda County is the latest to distribute dedicated tax revenue to caregivers and the families who rely on them.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Francisco is offering families \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/annual-impact-report-2024/\">free or subsidized child care\u003c/a>, adding more child-care space and paying early educators a living wage, using funds from a commercial property tax. Last month, Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/08/26/sonoma-county-board-of-supervisors-approves-release-of-first-114-million-raised-by-tax-measure-to-support-child-care/\">released the first batch of funds\u003c/a> from a half-cent sales tax to offer grants to early educators and improve early learning facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local tax measures come as California’s tobacco tax, which has long funded early childhood services, dwindles and federal programs like Head Start face an uncertain future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of Alameda, San Francisco and Sonoma counties is the envy of advocates around the Bay who are looking for local solutions to make child care more affordable for families struggling with the high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s the only way we’re gonna be able to address it,” said Marin County Supervisor Eric Lucan, who wants to place a child care funding tax on next year’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar effort failed in 2016, but Lucan thinks the issue is gaining political support now that the cost of infant care in Marin has \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare/price-by-age-care-setting-2022\">risen to $32,000 per year\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Database of Childcare Prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government considers child care affordable when it costs no more than 7% of a family’s annual income. That means a family must earn $400,000 a year to afford infant care in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911-ALAMEDASCHILDCARETAX-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney sits with children at the day care center she runs from her home in Livermore on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>It’s not just very low-income families, we’re talking working families making good salaries that are [struggling],” Lucan said. “And when you throw in housing costs with child care costs and energy costs and everything, it’s becoming very, very unaffordable for families of young children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucan said he and his wife paid about $2,000 per month in child care for each of their two kids, and whenever he mentions the figure in conversations, “it’s pretty mind-blowing for a lot of folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who can’t afford those high monthly costs make other difficult tradeoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting in East Palo Alto, a college student described taking two-hourlong bus rides to drop off her toddler with her sister because she couldn’t find affordable child care closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier have held three of the meetings to hear from families and child care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier and Gauthier said they’re both grandmothers whose adult children are grappling with the shortage of reliable, affordable child care. They’re worried that high child care prices are driving down the birth rate, pushing young families out of the county and harming the local economy. Speier is particularly struck by \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcalltogetherbetter.org/\">a countywide survey \u003c/a>that found more than 45% of parents left the workforce to care for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think it’s a crisis that we have ignored, and we can’t do that anymore, not for the health of our communities,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier said she would like to place a half-cent sales tax measure to fund child care on the November 2026 ballot, but worries about competing with a potential sales tax measure to fund the Bay Area’s crippling transit systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to approve placing the measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier said if that happens, she will seek an alternative solution, such as tapping into funds from a \u003ca href=\"https://smcmeasurek.org/\">previously approved half-cent sales tax\u003c/a> and fees from car rentals at San Francisco International Airport. She also wants to introduce “Tri-Share,” in which workers, their employers, and government split the cost of child care. The concept was first launched in Michigan in 2021 to help families afford child care and businesses recruit and retain workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I can convince some employers to recognize that this is the way to go,” Speier said. “And it’s a benefit that they can also deduct on their business taxes. I mean, it’s not like it’s a heavy lift.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees hold signs at the Day Without Childcare rally in front of the Federal Building in San José on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She wishes San Mateo County could boldly replicate New Mexico, which is \u003ca href=\"https://knpr.org/2025-09-18/new-mexico-takes-a-big-step-toward-universal-childcare\">about to offer free child care to all parents\u003c/a>, using profits from oil and gas production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Alameda County officials approved a plan to spend roughly $1 billion generated from Measure C in the last four years. A five-year spending plan calls for boosting early educators’ wages to at least $25 per hour, subsidizing 2,400 child care slots and offering monthly stipends to an often overlooked group known as license-exempt Family, Friends and Neighbors who receive subsidies for their caregiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinetta Lewis is the director of St. Mary’s Center in West Oakland, which received a $50,000 emergency grant from the county. She gave her teachers $1,000 stipends and plans to hire a substitute so they can plan their lessons and undergo training for their professional development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although St. Mary’s pays teachers between $25 and $32 per hour, Lewis said the preschool has a hard time retaining new hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People find that this job is too hard or too taxing, so they choose a different field to be in,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Zarodney said the grant she received will help her pay down her debt to a manageable level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People keep saying ‘you must have a lot of money because you run a day care.’ And I’m like, no, you really don’t. I never pay myself,” she said. “Everything I make goes back into the day care, every single thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she will be at capacity once again, as she starts caring for the babies of two teachers who are heading back to the classroom. 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These are systemic, not isolated.”[aside postID=news_12013684 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ShengThaoPamelaPrice-1020x680.jpg']Aside from San Francisco, Alameda County is also the only California district that runs complicated ranked choice voting across multiple cities. 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Russell City used to be a thriving community of predominantly Black and Latino families. But in the 1960s, families like Aisha’s were forced out to make way for urban development projects that were being built all over the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aisha Knowles: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:32] \u003c/em>My grandmother, she had faith all the time. She was not an angry woman. She believed that there would always be something greater, even if she didn’t get to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:45] \u003c/em>Now, after apologizing for racist policies that led to the destruction of Russell City, Alameda County and the city of Hayward want to make amends. 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It was near the city of Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:35] \u003c/em> Nisa Khan is an audience engagement reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nisa Khan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:39] \u003c/em>It was a predominantly black and Latino community, so a lot of people who were unable to find housing and other spots in the Bay Area due to racist policies like redlining. Because it was an unincorporated area, there wasn’t any city services like sewage or plumbing. On the other hand, it was a really close, tight-knit community. They had churches and schools and clubs and businesses. 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But, you know, I feel like as the father, it is part of my responsibility in living and, you know, in paying things forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nisa Khan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:51] \u003c/em>Her father, James Knowles, is part of the reparations committee in Alameda County, and she’s been involved in the Russell City efforts in Hayward. She grew up in Haywood, and she did a documentary about Vessel city, and has just been really involved in like telling people’s story, but also kind of introducing history to families who may not have totally known their entire background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aisha Knowles: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:10] \u003c/em>To me as an adult, it seems like there were efforts made to erase the history of Russell City. 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It seems like there was a huge impact on, and a lot of loss for a lot of the folks who used to live in Russell City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:52] \u003c/em>So I’m curious how residents and descendants have fought for recognition of this history over the years and what have they been asking for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nisa Khan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:03] \u003c/em>Yeah I think a lot of it is just talking about reparations and talking about something to sort of compensate for those losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aisha Knowles: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:10] \u003c/em>I’m sure that there are countless other examples from other families who had difficulty finding housing, keeping housing, finding employment. The stories are endless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nisa Khan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:22] \u003c/em>Aisha knows is that one thing she mentions is like sustainable like solutions something to prevent this from happening again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aisha Knowles: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:29] \u003c/em>I have, like, a deep interest in ensuring that the pain that families have experienced is interrupted. You know, it cannot continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:50] \u003c/em>Coming up, how Russell City residents finally won reparations. Stay with us. We’re talking now, Nisa, because reparations are, in fact, coming to former Russell City residents. How did this come about, and why is this happening now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nisa Khan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:14] So in 2020, \u003c/em>there was the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. And cities across the country, including in the Bay Area, began taking steps to revisit their history and acknowledge their, like, racist histories. Payward was one of those places. In 2021, they issued a public apology to former residents of Russell City. And then the following year, they launched what they called a Russell City Reparative Justice Project, which presented recommendations to the city council. This year, the created something which is called the Redress Fund, which has over $1 million that are planning on giving out payments to former Russell City residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:00] \u003c/em>I know you spoke with Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Marquez about this specific detail of why it was important to offer money to some of these residents. What did she tell you about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nisa Kahn: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:16] \u003c/em>For her it was kind of just commitment to be like we meant what we said.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:19] \u003c/em>It’s really important that we expedite this so that way we could provide not just words but a tangible option to the community that suffered so much trauma and pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nisa Khan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:29] \u003c/em>She also acknowledges that it’s by no means meant to cover what was lost\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:33] \u003c/em>This is just one small token to tell them, we’re here with you, we support you, and we wanna do everything we possibly can to expand that healing that they’ve been going through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:47] \u003c/em>So how much money are we talking about here, and where is it coming from exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nisa Khan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:52] \u003c/em>So the redress fund was announced in early July and it originally had $900,000. 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The idea is that when they announce the fund, they’re still planning on more people reaching out and being like, maybe they haven’t heard about the Russell City initiatives and they might be hearing now that that’s in the news. So they’re kind of telling people that if you think that you may be eligible of reaching out to the City of Hayward’s Office of City Attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:44] \u003c/em>Well, I want to go back to Aisha Knowles here, Nisa, who was a descendant of former Russell City residents. 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You know both of the supervisors kind of acknowledge that too just like the pain of knowing that when somebody passes away they don’t get the chance to see that. I think a lot is just sort of being able to find a way to repair that harm and maybe the Read Dress It Fund is a way of taking that step there.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And cities across the country, including in the Bay Area, began taking steps to revisit their history and acknowledge their, like, racist histories. Payward was one of those places. In 2021, they issued a public apology to former residents of Russell City. And then the following year, they launched what they called a Russell City Reparative Justice Project, which presented recommendations to the city council. This year, the created something which is called the Redress Fund, which has over $1 million that are planning on giving out payments to former Russell City residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:00] \u003c/em>I know you spoke with Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Marquez about this specific detail of why it was important to offer money to some of these residents. 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