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"content": "\u003cp>There’s an overwhelming demand for child care in California but not enough people who provide it. The industry is notorious for offering low pay and long hours. Several bills pending in the Legislature seek to address these problems, including one that would let in-home providers unionize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a measure that longtime in-home provider Pat Alexander is passionate about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander runs \u003ca href=\"https://alexanderchildcare.webs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexander Preschool and Child Care\u003c/a> out of her home in Elk Grove (Sacramento County). On a recent morning, a group of 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds work on getting their wiggles out before breakfast. The kids alternate between dancing around and falling to the ground in time with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the kids dance, Alexander, better known as Miss Pat, gets the food together in her small kitchen. 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She’s been in the child care business for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll be 49 years next month,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not always been easy, but Alexander enjoys the work. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/102/childcare-facilities-type/table#fmt=260&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=95&ch=222,223,224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She is one of more than 27,000 in-home child care providers in the state\u003c/a>. It’s far from a lucrative career. She and her husband watch a dozen kids. And, like all businesses, Alexander has to keep her rates competitive. Right now she charges about $600 a month per child. That means she and her husband make about $24,000 a year combined. She estimates they each work 55 hours a week, which comes out to $4.20 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that doesn’t count my before-hours or my after-hours,” she said. “This morning I was up at 6 o’clock getting ready for the kids to be here at 7. And then at night we’re putting things away and cleaning up, and the weekends grocery shopping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander, who will be 69 in August, was planning to retire next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m looking at 2025. Another extra five years,” she said. “The only thing I might change is, I might go down to a small group, so I can handle it alone. So my husband can kind of take it easy because his health is getting really bad. It’s harder for him all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiring an assistant is out of the question because Alexander can’t afford to pay the state’s minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755260\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755260\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Pat Alexander, owner of Alexander Preschool and Child Care in Elk Grove and her husband Ed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat Alexander, owner of Alexander Preschool and Child Care in Elk Grove, and her husband, Ed. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After breakfast the children head outside to play in the backyard. Pat and Ed have transformed it into a mini-playground, complete with slides, water table and playhouse the kids are constantly repairing with their plastic tools. It was a big investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander does get some income from the state by taking care of kids who qualify for child care subsidies. But she says it can be frustrating dealing with the bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to limit myself on how many subsidy families I can take because it takes so long to get paid,” she said. “So I would work all of July, say, and it wouldn’t be till mid-August before I got paid for July. So I’m looking at six weeks of no pay there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that delay, the reimbursement rates offered by the state are often less than what Alexander charges for her service. That leaves her with the tough decision — absorb the cost difference or ask her already financially strapped families to pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander would like to have more say over the state rules that affect her business. That’s why she’s such a strong supporter of \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 378\u003c/a>. The bill would allow in-home day care providers to unionize. Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, supports the bill. He said unionizing could give child care workers a voice and help incentivize them to stay in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many times they can go get a job at a fast food restaurant or Costco and make more money,” he said. “And that leaves a lot of uncertainty for the workforce. And that impacts, not only themselves, but also the kids in these programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 378 is currently making its way through the state Senate. Several similar bills have either died or been vetoed by governors in the past. But supporters are hoping Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign the measure if it gets to his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gina Adams, a senior fellow at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Institute\u003c/a> think tank, said supporting in-home providers is especially important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, more than half of low-income kids younger than 6 who have working parents fall into groups (that) are less likely to be able to use child care centers,” she said. “That includes families who work nontraditional hours, who have infants and toddlers, live in rural areas, have kids with special needs. All those groups are likely to need in-home providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander is actively working to help the industry evolve, to make it more supportive and sustainable for people like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making sure people understand I’m not a babysitter,” she said. “Just changing our whole image has been a hard change, but it’s gradually coming about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes some day soon more people will recognize those in her field as experienced professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There’s an overwhelming demand for child care in California but not enough people who provide it. The industry is notorious for offering low pay and long hours. Several bills pending in the Legislature seek to address these problems, including one that would let in-home providers unionize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a measure that longtime in-home provider Pat Alexander is passionate about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander runs \u003ca href=\"https://alexanderchildcare.webs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexander Preschool and Child Care\u003c/a> out of her home in Elk Grove (Sacramento County). On a recent morning, a group of 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds work on getting their wiggles out before breakfast. The kids alternate between dancing around and falling to the ground in time with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the kids dance, Alexander, better known as Miss Pat, gets the food together in her small kitchen. When it’s time to eat, her husband, known as Mr. Ed, gets everyone settled at miniature tables and begins doling out waffles and sausages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/kids-breakfast-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kids at Alexander Preschool and Child Care in Elk Grove eat breakfast.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids at Alexander Preschool and Child Care in Elk Grove eat breakfast. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s controlled chaos, but Alexander is used to it. She’s been in the child care business for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll be 49 years next month,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not always been easy, but Alexander enjoys the work. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/102/childcare-facilities-type/table#fmt=260&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=95&ch=222,223,224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She is one of more than 27,000 in-home child care providers in the state\u003c/a>. It’s far from a lucrative career. She and her husband watch a dozen kids. And, like all businesses, Alexander has to keep her rates competitive. Right now she charges about $600 a month per child. That means she and her husband make about $24,000 a year combined. She estimates they each work 55 hours a week, which comes out to $4.20 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that doesn’t count my before-hours or my after-hours,” she said. “This morning I was up at 6 o’clock getting ready for the kids to be here at 7. And then at night we’re putting things away and cleaning up, and the weekends grocery shopping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander, who will be 69 in August, was planning to retire next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m looking at 2025. Another extra five years,” she said. “The only thing I might change is, I might go down to a small group, so I can handle it alone. So my husband can kind of take it easy because his health is getting really bad. It’s harder for him all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiring an assistant is out of the question because Alexander can’t afford to pay the state’s minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755260\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755260\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Pat Alexander, owner of Alexander Preschool and Child Care in Elk Grove and her husband Ed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat Alexander, owner of Alexander Preschool and Child Care in Elk Grove, and her husband, Ed. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After breakfast the children head outside to play in the backyard. Pat and Ed have transformed it into a mini-playground, complete with slides, water table and playhouse the kids are constantly repairing with their plastic tools. It was a big investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander does get some income from the state by taking care of kids who qualify for child care subsidies. But she says it can be frustrating dealing with the bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to limit myself on how many subsidy families I can take because it takes so long to get paid,” she said. “So I would work all of July, say, and it wouldn’t be till mid-August before I got paid for July. So I’m looking at six weeks of no pay there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that delay, the reimbursement rates offered by the state are often less than what Alexander charges for her service. That leaves her with the tough decision — absorb the cost difference or ask her already financially strapped families to pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://rrnetwork.org/assets/general-files/2017-CA-Page-Updated-March-2019.pdf#%20asset:1878:url\">it’s estimated there are about 4 million kids\u003c/a> who need child care, but there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/101/childcare-slots-facilities/table#fmt=261&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=95&ch=222,223,224\">fewer than a million total licensed child care slots\u003c/a>. That leaves many parents depending on family or friends to watch their kids. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/99/childcare-availability/pie#fmt=262&loc=2&tf=95&ch=1247,1248&pdist=171\">need for more capacity\u003c/a> is clear. But the challenges of building more facilities can be overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nonprofit child care center in San Francisco's Mission District has been facing the challenges head-on. The Mission Kids Co-op currently rents space from a local church. Co-director Christina Maluenda Marchiel said the space is pretty limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on affordable child care\" tag=\"child-care\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And because it's a shared space we can't install permanent fixtures for children to play on,\" she said. \"You know, things that they need to climb and swing and slide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students and teachers make daily trips to a nearby park to give the kids some space to run around and be active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of years ago Mission Kids learned the church didn’t want to renew its lease. What followed was an exhaustive process of trying to negotiate with their landlords, then looking into other rental spaces and, finally, looking for something to buy, which is not easy in San Francisco, said Maluenda Marchiel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at many properties that we were like, oh, this would be a good fit for us,\" she said. \"And they would just be like snatched up like immediately. You know, maybe a 30-day escrow, for cash, or things that we could just not compete with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11746012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mission Kids Co-Director Christina Maluenda Marchiel stands on the site of the school's future location.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37024_New-Facility-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission Kids co-director Christina Maluenda Marchiel stands on the site of the school's future location. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mission Kids was lucky in that it has a lot of financial support from the city and \u003ca href=\"http://www.liifund.org/\">other organizations\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncclf.org/\">support nonprofits\u003c/a>. They need all the help they can get. Between finally buying a plot of land and building a new center from scratch, the project is costing more than $9 million. Of that, Mission Kids will have to come up with about $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a lot of money and, for us, we again primarily serve low- and moderate-income families. So it's a huge lift,\" Maluenda Marchiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They expect to break ground this summer and open in the fall of 2020. When it’s all said and done, they’ll serve 100 families, double their current capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property is expensive in lots of places. It's more so in San Francisco. But it’s not just cost that holds people back from building more child care centers. 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Home-based programs have been hit particularly hard, and Neville-Morgan said that’s hard on parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family child care tends to be in somebody’s community or neighborhood,\" she said. \"They might offer more evening care, weekend care as the sort of that flexibility that a lot of our working families need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line, Neville-Morgan said, is that it’s difficult to make money providing child care. In addition to building challenges, wages are low and employee turnover is high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the upcoming budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing $500 million to expand care facilities and train the child care workforce.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It also urges removing the “complicated barriers” that some immigrants face in having to prove their children’s eligibility for subsidized care, and stresses the importance of parent input in the policymaking process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the report calls for pay parity between preschool teachers and elementary school teachers, noting that some preschool teachers now make as little as minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kindergarten teachers get paid three times more than child care workers,” said Rendon. “We know that in California today, making $12.29 an hour is not going to allow someone to pay their rent and to raise a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care providers can make even less, something that Tonia McMillian, who has run a day care program out of her Bellflower home for 25 years, knows all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m no longer accepting any new infants, toddlers and preschool-age children,” said McMillian, who participated in the commission. “It’s just too hard to make ends meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMillian, who is active in the local chapter of the Service Employees International Union, could afford to buy health insurance only recently, but she has no retirement plan, a situation faced by day care providers across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past five years, Los Angeles County has lost roughly 1,600 day care facilities, amounting to 15,000 fewer child care slots in a county where access is already limited, according to figures provided by the state Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need to make sure that providers and people like me are not just living right there at the edge of falling off the cliff,” McMillian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Johnson-Staub, an early childhood expert at the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington, D.C., said the report details how California could become a national model for early education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is centered on the voices of families and what they need,” Johnson-Staub said. “It is centered on addressing racial inequities and other types of inequities to access, and that’s going to be a game changer for the whole national conversation,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission report emphasizes that the crisis in the state’s early care system disproportionately affects children of color. 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"content": "\u003cp>To walk down Main Street in Merced is to see a revitalization boom: Historic theaters are getting facelifts, and new bars and restaurants are opening. Merced has experienced the top personal income growth of any metro area in the country for the past five years, mostly fueled by an expanding UC campus. This Central Valley city looks like a place of prosperity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, just a few blocks away are neighborhoods where families live doubled up, where stores with fresh produce are hard to find. For many Merced families it is tough to make ends meet. Forty-three percent of all babies and toddlers in this county live in poverty. Merced is booming, but it hasn’t reached everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Allison family: Bobbie Allison is raising her four young kids on her own. It’s a struggle, especially with her occasional job as a cashier at a 7-Eleven in Merced, where she makes about $11 an hour. They used to live in Merced but had to move to Atwater, a 30-minute drive north, to find an affordable rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Minimum wage just doesn’t cut it,” Allison said. “I just need something that pays more than minimum wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11738004 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-1200x720.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Bobbie Allison, balancing work and caring for her four children is a struggle, despite California’s safety net. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Allison’s efforts to find work to support her children, they are part of the more than one-thirds of all Merced youth who experience early childhood poverty. In the county, 43 percent of all children under the age of 3 — or nearly 4,800 youth — are impoverished, according to Kidsdata. Statewide, 285,000 families with children under 5 live in poverty, according to data from the Population Reference Bureau and Kidsdata that’s based on U.S. Census statistics for 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allison hates that her family is part of such statistics. She has been through the county’s welfare-to-work program twice. Now she’s tapped out. Allison said she has put in countless job applications and has heard back only from one employer, a large poultry plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest hope is Foster Farms, but that’s a very large commute,” Allison said. The pay would be $12 an hour, slightly more than 7-Eleven, and she would get more hours. Yet the commute to get to the plant and drop off her kids with a baby sitter would be about two hours each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the problem is that it is very difficult to get out of the poverty situation,” said Monika Grasley, director of a Merced nonprofit called Lifeline CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Grasley’s staff are welfare recipients, so she sees their daily life struggles up-close. She said many people are working hard in Merced to make sure the poorest kids and their families don’t fall into complete disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11738016\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-1200x738.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To find affordable Section 8 housing, Bobbie Allison moved 30 minutes outside Merced with her children. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Merced County has an amazing safety net for people that live in poverty,” Grasley said. Yet, she sometimes feels like those who care are so busy putting Band-Aids on the deep poverty problems that no one is thinking about helping families be self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being on the system and making a certain amount of resources — then to get beyond that, the jump is too big,” Grasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of living is too high, she said. With rent, child care and transportation costs consistently rising, Bobbie Allison needs a higher-paying job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major challenge with moving people out of poverty in Merced is that one-third of all the county’s adults do not have a high school diploma, which severely limits job options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasley said the system needs to focus on giving people practical skills training — not keeping them one step ahead of disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to create a transitional stepping system where folks can actually move forward and get the training that they need and have jobs available for folks,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get out of poverty, a family would need to be self-sustaining with an income that adequately covers housing, food, clothing and child care. Researchers at the California Budget and Policy Center estimate that would be between $45,000 and $50,000 a year for a family of four in Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison doesn’t think it’s possible for her, but the mayor of Merced, Mike Murphy, hopes it will be for her and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The factors that lead to childhood poverty are issues that a number of folks in Merced and in our state are working on,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows many of Merced’s residents don’t have the education or professional qualifications to get higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our economy is diversifying. Agriculture is a big part of our way of life and our economy but that’s changing, and the largest factor in that is the presence and the growth of the University of California, Merced,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='starting-blocks' label='The Starting Blocks Series']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus in Merced, which opened in 2005, is the newest expansion for the UC system, and many hope it will revitalize the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, as the campus expands, there will be construction jobs available, but Murphy’s vision is much bigger: The hope is that more kids will be inspired by the UC campus to go to college, and that would make them more employable, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction is going on everywhere in the city as UC Merced’s footprint expands. Opposite Murphy’s office in downtown Merced is a brand-new building. “This was a vacant lot for the longest time, and then the university bought this and constructed this building,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes the revitalization of downtown Merced — facelifts to historic buildings and theaters, new restaurants and bars — will bring in more students and tourists. The increased economic activity, he said, should trickle down to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One historic building in downtown Merced being renovated, The Tioga, was once a famous hotel that was later converted into apartments. Most recently, The Tioga offered 90 units of affordable housing, and the mayor confirmed the building was home to low-income residents — until the renovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was housing but it was not well-kept,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11738012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-1200x761.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Economic development like this site in Merced will eventually bring new, higher-paying jobs to the community. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The downside of UC Merced’s expansion has been displacement of the city’s poor, pushing them farther out of town. As students and university staff move in, housing is snapped up by those with higher incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison had to move from Merced to Atwater to find affordable housing and a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. With her job and child care still in Merced, life is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy is confident that his city will help lift up its poorest residents. He counts on the help of the state, too, which provides welfare benefits to Merced’s poorest families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and his administration have made ending poverty in California one of their priorities. “Child poverty is the overarching problem we’re trying to solve,” said Kris Perry, deputy assistant secretary in the state’s Health and Human Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry comes from the early childhood field and has seen the crisis up-close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Research has shown time and time again that it’s one thing to give parents services, it’s another thing to put cash in their pockets — that is one of the most important things you can do when you’re trying to figure out how to ameliorate poverty,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has proposed an increase to the cash aid that poor families get through the CalWORKS grant. But Perry said bringing down such high levels of poverty takes more: “This will take a really big push, not only from the state but also from the county of Merced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a blueprint for cutting child poverty in half in 10 years that involves new expenditures of close to $90 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group noted that the real cost of child poverty is around $1 trillion per year in lost revenues due to lower productivity in the workforce, poor health and higher crime. The plan lays out two possible plans that both involve increasing cash aid and bringing more people into the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unlikely that the Trump administration will move on these proposals, having already signaled cuts to domestic spending and anti-poverty programs in its next budget — which leaves the lot of California’s impoverished children squarely in the hands of state and local elected representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1200x819.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in mid-March 2019. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Bobbie Allison, she isn’t waiting for politicians to solve her problems. She heard back from Foster Farms and has gone through job orientation. Now she has to figure out how to manage her four young children, two of whom are still waitlisted for a preschool seat, so she can work the 9-5 shifts she has been offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will figure something out one way or the other. I always do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is an Early Childhood reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College. The fellowship is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allison hates that her family is part of such statistics. She has been through the county’s welfare-to-work program twice. Now she’s tapped out. Allison said she has put in countless job applications and has heard back only from one employer, a large poultry plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest hope is Foster Farms, but that’s a very large commute,” Allison said. The pay would be $12 an hour, slightly more than 7-Eleven, and she would get more hours. Yet the commute to get to the plant and drop off her kids with a baby sitter would be about two hours each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the problem is that it is very difficult to get out of the poverty situation,” said Monika Grasley, director of a Merced nonprofit called Lifeline CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Grasley’s staff are welfare recipients, so she sees their daily life struggles up-close. She said many people are working hard in Merced to make sure the poorest kids and their families don’t fall into complete disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11738016\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-1200x738.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To find affordable Section 8 housing, Bobbie Allison moved 30 minutes outside Merced with her children. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Merced County has an amazing safety net for people that live in poverty,” Grasley said. Yet, she sometimes feels like those who care are so busy putting Band-Aids on the deep poverty problems that no one is thinking about helping families be self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being on the system and making a certain amount of resources — then to get beyond that, the jump is too big,” Grasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of living is too high, she said. With rent, child care and transportation costs consistently rising, Bobbie Allison needs a higher-paying job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major challenge with moving people out of poverty in Merced is that one-third of all the county’s adults do not have a high school diploma, which severely limits job options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasley said the system needs to focus on giving people practical skills training — not keeping them one step ahead of disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to create a transitional stepping system where folks can actually move forward and get the training that they need and have jobs available for folks,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get out of poverty, a family would need to be self-sustaining with an income that adequately covers housing, food, clothing and child care. Researchers at the California Budget and Policy Center estimate that would be between $45,000 and $50,000 a year for a family of four in Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison doesn’t think it’s possible for her, but the mayor of Merced, Mike Murphy, hopes it will be for her and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The factors that lead to childhood poverty are issues that a number of folks in Merced and in our state are working on,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows many of Merced’s residents don’t have the education or professional qualifications to get higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our economy is diversifying. Agriculture is a big part of our way of life and our economy but that’s changing, and the largest factor in that is the presence and the growth of the University of California, Merced,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus in Merced, which opened in 2005, is the newest expansion for the UC system, and many hope it will revitalize the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, as the campus expands, there will be construction jobs available, but Murphy’s vision is much bigger: The hope is that more kids will be inspired by the UC campus to go to college, and that would make them more employable, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction is going on everywhere in the city as UC Merced’s footprint expands. Opposite Murphy’s office in downtown Merced is a brand-new building. “This was a vacant lot for the longest time, and then the university bought this and constructed this building,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes the revitalization of downtown Merced — facelifts to historic buildings and theaters, new restaurants and bars — will bring in more students and tourists. The increased economic activity, he said, should trickle down to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One historic building in downtown Merced being renovated, The Tioga, was once a famous hotel that was later converted into apartments. Most recently, The Tioga offered 90 units of affordable housing, and the mayor confirmed the building was home to low-income residents — until the renovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was housing but it was not well-kept,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11738012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-1200x761.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Economic development like this site in Merced will eventually bring new, higher-paying jobs to the community. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The downside of UC Merced’s expansion has been displacement of the city’s poor, pushing them farther out of town. As students and university staff move in, housing is snapped up by those with higher incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison had to move from Merced to Atwater to find affordable housing and a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. With her job and child care still in Merced, life is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy is confident that his city will help lift up its poorest residents. He counts on the help of the state, too, which provides welfare benefits to Merced’s poorest families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and his administration have made ending poverty in California one of their priorities. “Child poverty is the overarching problem we’re trying to solve,” said Kris Perry, deputy assistant secretary in the state’s Health and Human Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry comes from the early childhood field and has seen the crisis up-close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Research has shown time and time again that it’s one thing to give parents services, it’s another thing to put cash in their pockets — that is one of the most important things you can do when you’re trying to figure out how to ameliorate poverty,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has proposed an increase to the cash aid that poor families get through the CalWORKS grant. But Perry said bringing down such high levels of poverty takes more: “This will take a really big push, not only from the state but also from the county of Merced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a blueprint for cutting child poverty in half in 10 years that involves new expenditures of close to $90 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group noted that the real cost of child poverty is around $1 trillion per year in lost revenues due to lower productivity in the workforce, poor health and higher crime. The plan lays out two possible plans that both involve increasing cash aid and bringing more people into the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unlikely that the Trump administration will move on these proposals, having already signaled cuts to domestic spending and anti-poverty programs in its next budget — which leaves the lot of California’s impoverished children squarely in the hands of state and local elected representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1200x819.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in mid-March 2019. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Bobbie Allison, she isn’t waiting for politicians to solve her problems. She heard back from Foster Farms and has gone through job orientation. Now she has to figure out how to manage her four young children, two of whom are still waitlisted for a preschool seat, so she can work the 9-5 shifts she has been offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will figure something out one way or the other. I always do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a community center in a low-income area of Merced, Monica Adrian of the county education office and a few teachers played games and held story time for parents and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='starting-blocks' label='The Starting Blocks Series']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they sang “The Wheels on the Bus,” they showed parents how to engage children beyond singing. “What color is the bus?” asked one teacher. “Yellow,” called out the chorus of kids. “And show me your hands, what do the tires do?” “They go round and round,” the children replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instantly, the kids made giant circles with their arms. Their faces shone with excitement as they looked around at peers and their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers were trying to model brain-building games and activities for parents since many of them are stuck at home with young children due to the drastic shortage of child care options for low-income families in the region. The playgroup is a gap filler of sorts, a once-a-week outing for children who cannot get a seat in preschool. Merced County in the Central Valley uses federal and state dollars to provide infant, toddler and preschool care, but the majority of children still miss out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of access to quality child care is felt hard in Merced County, where early childhood poverty is particularly acute. In the county, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">43 percent\u003c/a> of all children under the age of 3 — or nearly 4,800 youth — are impoverished, according to Kidsdata. Statewide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">285,000 families\u003c/a> with children under 5 live in poverty, according to data from the Population Reference Bureau and Kidsdata that’s based on U.S. Census statistics for 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11737744 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"Ayla, 9, Alorra, 3, Aden, 6, Alilith, 5, enjoy the trampoline their mother, Bobbie Allison, recently bought and assembled for them. Allison said she had to leave Merced to find a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. It's far from child care and work in Merced, but in Atwater her children have a backyard where the trampoline and several rescued factory chickens provide the main entertainment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-1200x762.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayla, 9, Alorra, 3, Aden, 6, and Alilith, 5, enjoy the trampoline their mother, Bobbie Allison, recently bought and assembled for them. Allison said she had to leave Merced for Atwater to find a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. Merced is where child care is, but in Atwater her children have a backyard where the trampoline and several rescued factory chickens provide the main entertainment. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Merced County, however, is booming: It is home to the newest UC school, it has experienced the top personal income growth of any region in the country over the last five years, and manufacturing is making a comeback, resulting in new jobs. What these economic indicators leave out is children like the ones attending the county-run playgroup. Merced is a place where prosperity sits alongside entrenched poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So officials like Adrian, of the Merced County Office of Education, are doing their best with limited resources. Adrian wants parents to know how easy it is to stimulate and engage their little ones and give them critical brain development skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that parents are getting support and education, so that they can be providing the same kinds of support and early experiences [as a preschool],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Bobbie Allison, a single mom, prepares dinner for her four children. Making her meager budget stretch to buy fresh food is a challenge. She relies on the milk and cheese the WIC program gives her for her youngest, Alorra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-1200x859.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bobbie Allison prepares dinner for her four children. Making her meager budget stretch to buy fresh food is a challenge. She relies on the milk and cheese the WIC program gives her for her youngest, Alorra. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limited Spots in Government-Subsidized Child Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are limited spots in government-subsidized child care programs in the county. In 2017, government-licensed child care slots were available for only 19 percent of children with working parents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alorra Allison, 3, and her sister, Alilith, 4, are on waiting lists for the highly coveted spots. “I’m hoping she’ll [Alorra] be able to get into a Head Start [program] next year,” said her mother, Bobbie Allison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Allison, a single mother raising four kids, solving the child care piece of her puzzle could dramatically alter her chances of finding better-paying work. Right now, the family lives in Atwater, a 30-minute drive from Merced in the Central Valley, because that’s where they can find an affordable rental — and a landlord who will accept their Section 8 housing voucher — amid the state’s housing crisis. But the child care is in Merced, as is Allison’s occasional work at 7-Eleven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so stressful as a parent, any parent, regardless of your economic situation, to balance child care and work,” said Adrian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737747\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-800x690.jpg\" alt=\"Aden, 6, with one of the family's several rescued factory chickens in Atwater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-800x690.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-160x138.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-1020x880.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-1200x1035.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aden, 6, with one of the family’s several rescued factory chickens in Atwater. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison feels lucky to have found a house with a yard in Atwater. And while they don’t have much else, her children have a trampoline and some chickens in the yard to provide some entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what they don’t always have is water and electricity. Those utility bills add up and no welfare program helps to cover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had to borrow money from family and friends about three times since we moved here to pay for [utilities] or to turn it back on,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allison can’t afford to buy any of her kids’ school photos, nor a new pair of shoes for 6-year-old Aden, who runs everywhere and wears out shoes constantly. Her children don’t do extracurricular activities since there is no money for dance classes or gymnastics. Allison doesn’t own a computer and can’t afford internet service, so when she applies for jobs she relies on the data plan that comes with her cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a computer, dance classes and new shoes are just nice frills. What Allison wants most is a stable job and quality child care for her two youngest children, both of whom are “ready for it,” she said. “They count, they (say) their colors, they know their ABCs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1200x819.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Mom Could Use a Break Every Now and Again’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality of being a single mom, holding down a job and looking after four kids with limited child care can be overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mom could use a break every now and again,” Allison told her kids with a chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents do need a break: Stress builds up and even a baby will absorb it, said David Lockridge, an expert in childhood trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nervous system is either set up to be soothed and to be calm or it is set up to be constantly on fight, flight or freeze,” said Lockridge, whose work is based on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/acestudy/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major study\u003c/a> done in the mid-1990s by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-800x632.jpg\" alt=\"Allison family in a group hug on a recent afternoon in the backyard of their rental home in Atwater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-800x632.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-1020x806.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-1200x948.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allison family in a group hug on a recent afternoon in the backyard of their rental home in Atwater. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The findings showed that childhood traumas lead to long-term and lingering bad health outcomes later in life. Lockridge’s organization in Merced, ACE Overcomers, works to educate people about childhood trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that poverty affects the stress level of the parents, that’s going to be felt by the children,” he said. “People are actually wearing out years earlier because their homeostasis, their thermometer, was ramped up too high because of early childhood adversity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem that babies and toddlers are too young and won’t remember their early impoverished years, but the impacts get stored in the body, Lockridge said. “Whether or not a child is cognitively aware of what is going on, their body keeps score.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison said she doesn’t feel good about the life that she is providing for her children, but she doesn’t know what more she can do. She hopes to figure out a job with Foster Farms in the area, get her children into Head Start, and begin to get ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is an Early Childhood reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College. The fellowship is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of access to quality child care is felt hard in Merced County, where early childhood poverty is particularly acute. In the county, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">43 percent\u003c/a> of all children under the age of 3 — or nearly 4,800 youth — are impoverished, according to Kidsdata. Statewide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">285,000 families\u003c/a> with children under 5 live in poverty, according to data from the Population Reference Bureau and Kidsdata that’s based on U.S. Census statistics for 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11737744 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"Ayla, 9, Alorra, 3, Aden, 6, Alilith, 5, enjoy the trampoline their mother, Bobbie Allison, recently bought and assembled for them. Allison said she had to leave Merced to find a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. It's far from child care and work in Merced, but in Atwater her children have a backyard where the trampoline and several rescued factory chickens provide the main entertainment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-1200x762.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayla, 9, Alorra, 3, Aden, 6, and Alilith, 5, enjoy the trampoline their mother, Bobbie Allison, recently bought and assembled for them. Allison said she had to leave Merced for Atwater to find a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. Merced is where child care is, but in Atwater her children have a backyard where the trampoline and several rescued factory chickens provide the main entertainment. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Merced County, however, is booming: It is home to the newest UC school, it has experienced the top personal income growth of any region in the country over the last five years, and manufacturing is making a comeback, resulting in new jobs. What these economic indicators leave out is children like the ones attending the county-run playgroup. Merced is a place where prosperity sits alongside entrenched poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So officials like Adrian, of the Merced County Office of Education, are doing their best with limited resources. Adrian wants parents to know how easy it is to stimulate and engage their little ones and give them critical brain development skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that parents are getting support and education, so that they can be providing the same kinds of support and early experiences [as a preschool],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Bobbie Allison, a single mom, prepares dinner for her four children. Making her meager budget stretch to buy fresh food is a challenge. She relies on the milk and cheese the WIC program gives her for her youngest, Alorra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-1200x859.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bobbie Allison prepares dinner for her four children. Making her meager budget stretch to buy fresh food is a challenge. She relies on the milk and cheese the WIC program gives her for her youngest, Alorra. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limited Spots in Government-Subsidized Child Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are limited spots in government-subsidized child care programs in the county. In 2017, government-licensed child care slots were available for only 19 percent of children with working parents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alorra Allison, 3, and her sister, Alilith, 4, are on waiting lists for the highly coveted spots. “I’m hoping she’ll [Alorra] be able to get into a Head Start [program] next year,” said her mother, Bobbie Allison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Allison, a single mother raising four kids, solving the child care piece of her puzzle could dramatically alter her chances of finding better-paying work. Right now, the family lives in Atwater, a 30-minute drive from Merced in the Central Valley, because that’s where they can find an affordable rental — and a landlord who will accept their Section 8 housing voucher — amid the state’s housing crisis. But the child care is in Merced, as is Allison’s occasional work at 7-Eleven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so stressful as a parent, any parent, regardless of your economic situation, to balance child care and work,” said Adrian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737747\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-800x690.jpg\" alt=\"Aden, 6, with one of the family's several rescued factory chickens in Atwater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-800x690.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-160x138.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-1020x880.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-1200x1035.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aden, 6, with one of the family’s several rescued factory chickens in Atwater. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison feels lucky to have found a house with a yard in Atwater. And while they don’t have much else, her children have a trampoline and some chickens in the yard to provide some entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what they don’t always have is water and electricity. Those utility bills add up and no welfare program helps to cover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had to borrow money from family and friends about three times since we moved here to pay for [utilities] or to turn it back on,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allison can’t afford to buy any of her kids’ school photos, nor a new pair of shoes for 6-year-old Aden, who runs everywhere and wears out shoes constantly. Her children don’t do extracurricular activities since there is no money for dance classes or gymnastics. Allison doesn’t own a computer and can’t afford internet service, so when she applies for jobs she relies on the data plan that comes with her cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a computer, dance classes and new shoes are just nice frills. What Allison wants most is a stable job and quality child care for her two youngest children, both of whom are “ready for it,” she said. “They count, they (say) their colors, they know their ABCs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1200x819.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Mom Could Use a Break Every Now and Again’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality of being a single mom, holding down a job and looking after four kids with limited child care can be overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mom could use a break every now and again,” Allison told her kids with a chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents do need a break: Stress builds up and even a baby will absorb it, said David Lockridge, an expert in childhood trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nervous system is either set up to be soothed and to be calm or it is set up to be constantly on fight, flight or freeze,” said Lockridge, whose work is based on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/acestudy/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major study\u003c/a> done in the mid-1990s by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-800x632.jpg\" alt=\"Allison family in a group hug on a recent afternoon in the backyard of their rental home in Atwater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-800x632.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-1020x806.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-1200x948.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allison family in a group hug on a recent afternoon in the backyard of their rental home in Atwater. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The findings showed that childhood traumas lead to long-term and lingering bad health outcomes later in life. Lockridge’s organization in Merced, ACE Overcomers, works to educate people about childhood trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that poverty affects the stress level of the parents, that’s going to be felt by the children,” he said. “People are actually wearing out years earlier because their homeostasis, their thermometer, was ramped up too high because of early childhood adversity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem that babies and toddlers are too young and won’t remember their early impoverished years, but the impacts get stored in the body, Lockridge said. “Whether or not a child is cognitively aware of what is going on, their body keeps score.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison said she doesn’t feel good about the life that she is providing for her children, but she doesn’t know what more she can do. She hopes to figure out a job with Foster Farms in the area, get her children into Head Start, and begin to get ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Norma Sandoval of Merced looks at her baby son Alex, and really stares into his eyes, she sees a wise, old man. His eyebrows have this way of zigging and then zagging, he sucks his lips into his mouth as if he is pondering the universe. He makes Sandoval laugh, because really, what could a four-month old be contemplating? For Sandoval, Alex is the best thing in her life, which is otherwise full of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many first-time moms, Sandoval has been on a steep learning curve caring for Alex. She gets a lot of help from her own mother, who has eight other children, and from the child care workers who care for Alex while she finishes high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval’s mother was a teen when she had her, and despite swearing she wouldn’t do the same, here she is at 17 with a four-month old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would see all these mothers so young and I would be like, oh my god they’re so stupid, how did they get pregnant so early,” Sandoval said. She laughed and added, “and then I got pregnant and now I’m like them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval knows what everyone thinks of her being a teen mom, but she is resolute — she wants the best for her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom’s determination might mean Alex will have a very bright future ahead of him, but right now he is part of a statistic that doesn’t bode well for his life chances: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">43 percent of all children under three years-old in Merced county live in poverty\u003c/a>. Sandoval doesn’t know a single person her age who isn’t struggling to make ends meet. It’s just how life is, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poverty has long been a political football, and the current polarized climate lays bare the tussle. At one end, child poverty has been called a “moral outrage” by California’s progressive governor, Gavin Newsom, who has vowed to end it. At the other end of the political spectrum, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has said poverty is a “state of mind,” echoing the Trump administration position that government aid is not the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades ago, Norma Sandoval was herself born into an impoverished family. Her father, an immigrant from Mexico, went off daily to work the fields and her mother ran an ad-hoc childcare service out of their tiny apartment, mostly to help other families so parents could go work in the fields while she looked after the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Starting Blocks Series\" tag=\"starting-blocks\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite both her parents working full-time much of her life, in her 17 years, Sandoval nor her parents have been able to climb above their challenging economic circumstances. So, like her mother before her, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/PovertyDeeperLook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">285,162 parents statewide\u003c/a>, she too now raises her baby while living below the federal poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval has all the usual concerns and anxieties of a 17-year-old, but on a recent Wednesday morning she was particularly worried about how many times Alex had pooped. Her brow was deeply creased as she discussed what to do with Emily Maltva, the lead teacher at the child development center that sits on the campus of Yosemite High School where Sandoval is a junior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He pooped like twice,” Sandoval told Maltva. “I changed him and then like 10 minutes later he pooped again.” Maltva reassured her that this was completely normal for a baby. Then Sandoval confessed that it wasn’t really the pooping that worried her. Diapers are expensive. Sandoval’s brow furrowed further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have like that money or nothing,” she confessed. “But I don’t think money makes you a good mother or not,” she said, declaring that she was a very good mother for Alex. Not having money just makes things harder, Sandoval said as she prepared Alex for the half-hour trudge to her boyfriend’s parents’ apartment where they are currently living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Child poverty in California is definitely a serious problem,” said Sara Kimberlin, senior policy analyst with the California Budget and Policy Center (CBPC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a problem that has gotten steadily worse over the years as the numbers of babies and children living in poverty has increased. The numbers are stark. One in five babies and toddlers in California were born into poverty in the last few years. That’s down from five years ago when one quarter of all babies statewide lived below the federal poverty line. In some places it is much higher, like Alex’s home, in Merced County, and the counties of Glenn, Colusa, Trinity and Tehama, where almost half of all babies born start life in impoverished families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is California’s Housing Crisis to Blame?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The earliest data on early childhood poverty came soon after standards for measuring poverty were first developed in the 1960s. By 1970 — one of the first years this data for young children was collected — about 14 percent of kids under five were poor in California. That number climbed steadily over the years. In 2012 it was 26 percent of all children statewide, according to Census and American Community Survey data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recent studies, like one from the San Francisco-based Center for the Next Generation, highlight the long-term economic threat posed by California’s high rates of childhood poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did the baby poverty numbers get so high? The answer has little to do with babies themselves. While the cost of diapers and infant formula has risen, Kimberlin points to macro-economic factors that have seen more families fall below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CBPC’s Kimberlin said California’s rising housing costs have perhaps been the biggest factor in pushing more families out from self sufficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From 2006 to 2016, rents in California rose by about three times as much median annual earnings for a full-time worker,” said Kimberlin. “That just creates a long-term problem where more and more families find themselves squeezed trying to cover their basic costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis hit, the number of California children under two-years-old in poverty climbed steeply, Kimberlin said. “The great recession definitely made things worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Sandoval, age four months, begins his day at a child care center with his mom, Norma, playing with one of his favorite toys. Norma attends Yosemite High School while Alex attends the child care center attached to the school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-1200x816.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Sandoval, age four months, begins his day at a child care center with his mom, Norma, playing with one of his favorite toys. Norma attends Yosemite High School while Alex attends the child care center attached to the school. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kimberlin said the recession’s impact can be traced to the spike in impoverished babies and toddlers. One of the most decisive budget cuts in the years of the recession was to subsidized child care that the state of California provided for low-income families. So add to the stagnating wages and high housing costs the “shrinking availability of affordable childcare,” and Kimberlin said and you have “a perfect storm that really made it difficult for families with children to make ends meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet during the years of the recession, many Californians suffered, and the worsening situation for the state’s youngest residents didn’t sound alarm bells. Many children who are now in elementary school were babies and toddlers during the recession. They missed out on quality early education as preschool seats disappeared after 2008, and parents had to figure out babysitting or drop out of the workforce. With less family income the nutrition they received in their critical early development years was likely poorer, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Turk of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health (LPFCH) wonders why the moral outrage at the increasing child poverty numbers isn’t more widespread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One in five babies being born into poverty in California is just absolutely unforgivable,” Turk said. During the recession years, one quarter of all babies were born into poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the demographics of the impoverished babies and toddlers has something to do with the lack of attention and action. In California it’s disproportionately babies of color that are born into poverty, something Turk said has nothing to do with the babies themselves. “Really this is about historical discriminatory practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year Kidsdata, a project of LPFCH, releases a report documenting the number of children in poverty. Turk said the high numbers of children of color in poverty comes from the discrimination their parents have suffered over the years. “For housing, for employment, the parents may be treated differently,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been well documented that African-Americans, Latinos and other immigrant groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/28/redlining-was-banned-50-years-ago-its-still-hurting-minorities-today/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f359268f5cfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have encountered redlining in housing\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banks not lending to them\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2017/09/16/job-discrimination-against-blacks-and-latinos-has-changed-little-or-none-in-25-years/#8f4a5fc51e3e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outright discrimination in the job market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turk said if a parent deals with discrimination when they try to rent a home, or in the job market, “there’s a trickle down effect [to] their babies and their children.” Unstable employment and housing “means then their babies are directly impacted by this,” Turk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Social Safety Net Helps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, poor families are not completely on their own. Experts estimate that the child poverty numbers would be almost 15 percent higher — around one in three kids — if it wasn’t for the social safety net, a tapestry of local, state and federal programs that give help to impoverished families. From Section 8 housing vouchers, to food stamps, cash aid and subsidized preschool, the welfare benefits in California are robust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is funding for providing healthful food, milk or other dairy products. There’s subsidies for parent to make sure they’re in housing for their children. There are child care subsidies,” Turk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said these programs are clearly helping families from falling into complete disaster. Norma Sandoval agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom she works, my dad works, my boyfriend’s parents they work, so no one would be able to watch the baby,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She gets MediCal for her baby and food stamps, both state and federally funded programs. Her child care is also free, paid to her high school child care center by the state of California. But she’s one of the lucky ones. \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/1-2-million-california-children-eligible-subsidized-child-care-not-receive-services-state-programs-2015/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a 2016 report\u003c/a> from the California Budget and Policy Center, six out of seven parents eligible for child care subsidies did not get them, and the waiting list can be more than 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if I didn’t have child care I wouldn’t make it,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-800x668.jpg\" alt=\"Merced County resident Norma Sandoval holds her four-month-old son, Alex.\" width=\"800\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-800x668.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-1020x852.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-1200x1003.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merced County resident Norma Sandoval holds her four-month-old son, Alex. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the subsidies she gets, Sandoval still can’t buy all the basics for her baby. So she leans on her family, her unofficial safety net. She doesn’t pay rent to her boyfriend’s parents, and her own parents buy her extra food and the baby’s diapers, which add up to a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the safety net that holds parents like Sandoval is working, it’s also a byzantine system to navigate. It’s something that Monika Grasley, president of a nonprofit community organization in Merced called Lifeline CDC, sees parents struggle with every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t understand why we have food stamps that allow us to buy junk food but do not provide diapers, it makes no sense to me,” Grasley said. “So what it encourages parents to do is sell their food stamps so they can purchase diapers for their babies.” And with less resources, parents tend to choose the cheapest food option for their children, which oftentimes have little nutritional value, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasley said there are also many issues that impoverished families deal with for which government help is limited or nonexistent. Many that she works with don’t have transportation. They struggle to find child care, and some don’t even have a cell phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about how do I survive, not how do I thrive,” Grasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norma Sandoval herself grew up with very little. But she wants better for her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Slowly slowly we’re going to learn, slowly we’re going to get that help that we need to get a better life for us and our kids,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, on top of everything else she is juggling, Sandoval shows up to Yosemite High School which has a special program for teen moms like her. She’s got big dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plan is to finish high school, go to college and be a nurse,” Sandoval said. She admits before getting pregnant she hated school and used to ditch classes often. Now she wouldn’t do that, “because I have a baby and I want a better life for him and me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: This story is part of KQED’s series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/starting-blocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starting Blocks\u003c/a>, which is examining the hurdles faced by California’s kids, especially those in low income families.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is an Early Childhood reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College, which is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hen Norma Sandoval of Merced looks at her baby son Alex, and really stares into his eyes, she sees a wise, old man. His eyebrows have this way of zigging and then zagging, he sucks his lips into his mouth as if he is pondering the universe. He makes Sandoval laugh, because really, what could a four-month old be contemplating? For Sandoval, Alex is the best thing in her life, which is otherwise full of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many first-time moms, Sandoval has been on a steep learning curve caring for Alex. She gets a lot of help from her own mother, who has eight other children, and from the child care workers who care for Alex while she finishes high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval’s mother was a teen when she had her, and despite swearing she wouldn’t do the same, here she is at 17 with a four-month old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would see all these mothers so young and I would be like, oh my god they’re so stupid, how did they get pregnant so early,” Sandoval said. She laughed and added, “and then I got pregnant and now I’m like them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval knows what everyone thinks of her being a teen mom, but she is resolute — she wants the best for her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom’s determination might mean Alex will have a very bright future ahead of him, but right now he is part of a statistic that doesn’t bode well for his life chances: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">43 percent of all children under three years-old in Merced county live in poverty\u003c/a>. Sandoval doesn’t know a single person her age who isn’t struggling to make ends meet. It’s just how life is, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poverty has long been a political football, and the current polarized climate lays bare the tussle. At one end, child poverty has been called a “moral outrage” by California’s progressive governor, Gavin Newsom, who has vowed to end it. At the other end of the political spectrum, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has said poverty is a “state of mind,” echoing the Trump administration position that government aid is not the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades ago, Norma Sandoval was herself born into an impoverished family. Her father, an immigrant from Mexico, went off daily to work the fields and her mother ran an ad-hoc childcare service out of their tiny apartment, mostly to help other families so parents could go work in the fields while she looked after the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite both her parents working full-time much of her life, in her 17 years, Sandoval nor her parents have been able to climb above their challenging economic circumstances. So, like her mother before her, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/PovertyDeeperLook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">285,162 parents statewide\u003c/a>, she too now raises her baby while living below the federal poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval has all the usual concerns and anxieties of a 17-year-old, but on a recent Wednesday morning she was particularly worried about how many times Alex had pooped. Her brow was deeply creased as she discussed what to do with Emily Maltva, the lead teacher at the child development center that sits on the campus of Yosemite High School where Sandoval is a junior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He pooped like twice,” Sandoval told Maltva. “I changed him and then like 10 minutes later he pooped again.” Maltva reassured her that this was completely normal for a baby. Then Sandoval confessed that it wasn’t really the pooping that worried her. Diapers are expensive. Sandoval’s brow furrowed further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have like that money or nothing,” she confessed. “But I don’t think money makes you a good mother or not,” she said, declaring that she was a very good mother for Alex. Not having money just makes things harder, Sandoval said as she prepared Alex for the half-hour trudge to her boyfriend’s parents’ apartment where they are currently living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Child poverty in California is definitely a serious problem,” said Sara Kimberlin, senior policy analyst with the California Budget and Policy Center (CBPC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a problem that has gotten steadily worse over the years as the numbers of babies and children living in poverty has increased. The numbers are stark. One in five babies and toddlers in California were born into poverty in the last few years. That’s down from five years ago when one quarter of all babies statewide lived below the federal poverty line. In some places it is much higher, like Alex’s home, in Merced County, and the counties of Glenn, Colusa, Trinity and Tehama, where almost half of all babies born start life in impoverished families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is California’s Housing Crisis to Blame?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The earliest data on early childhood poverty came soon after standards for measuring poverty were first developed in the 1960s. By 1970 — one of the first years this data for young children was collected — about 14 percent of kids under five were poor in California. That number climbed steadily over the years. In 2012 it was 26 percent of all children statewide, according to Census and American Community Survey data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recent studies, like one from the San Francisco-based Center for the Next Generation, highlight the long-term economic threat posed by California’s high rates of childhood poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did the baby poverty numbers get so high? The answer has little to do with babies themselves. While the cost of diapers and infant formula has risen, Kimberlin points to macro-economic factors that have seen more families fall below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CBPC’s Kimberlin said California’s rising housing costs have perhaps been the biggest factor in pushing more families out from self sufficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From 2006 to 2016, rents in California rose by about three times as much median annual earnings for a full-time worker,” said Kimberlin. “That just creates a long-term problem where more and more families find themselves squeezed trying to cover their basic costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis hit, the number of California children under two-years-old in poverty climbed steeply, Kimberlin said. “The great recession definitely made things worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Sandoval, age four months, begins his day at a child care center with his mom, Norma, playing with one of his favorite toys. Norma attends Yosemite High School while Alex attends the child care center attached to the school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-1200x816.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Sandoval, age four months, begins his day at a child care center with his mom, Norma, playing with one of his favorite toys. Norma attends Yosemite High School while Alex attends the child care center attached to the school. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kimberlin said the recession’s impact can be traced to the spike in impoverished babies and toddlers. One of the most decisive budget cuts in the years of the recession was to subsidized child care that the state of California provided for low-income families. So add to the stagnating wages and high housing costs the “shrinking availability of affordable childcare,” and Kimberlin said and you have “a perfect storm that really made it difficult for families with children to make ends meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet during the years of the recession, many Californians suffered, and the worsening situation for the state’s youngest residents didn’t sound alarm bells. Many children who are now in elementary school were babies and toddlers during the recession. They missed out on quality early education as preschool seats disappeared after 2008, and parents had to figure out babysitting or drop out of the workforce. With less family income the nutrition they received in their critical early development years was likely poorer, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Turk of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health (LPFCH) wonders why the moral outrage at the increasing child poverty numbers isn’t more widespread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One in five babies being born into poverty in California is just absolutely unforgivable,” Turk said. During the recession years, one quarter of all babies were born into poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the demographics of the impoverished babies and toddlers has something to do with the lack of attention and action. In California it’s disproportionately babies of color that are born into poverty, something Turk said has nothing to do with the babies themselves. “Really this is about historical discriminatory practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year Kidsdata, a project of LPFCH, releases a report documenting the number of children in poverty. Turk said the high numbers of children of color in poverty comes from the discrimination their parents have suffered over the years. “For housing, for employment, the parents may be treated differently,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been well documented that African-Americans, Latinos and other immigrant groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/28/redlining-was-banned-50-years-ago-its-still-hurting-minorities-today/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f359268f5cfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have encountered redlining in housing\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banks not lending to them\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2017/09/16/job-discrimination-against-blacks-and-latinos-has-changed-little-or-none-in-25-years/#8f4a5fc51e3e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outright discrimination in the job market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turk said if a parent deals with discrimination when they try to rent a home, or in the job market, “there’s a trickle down effect [to] their babies and their children.” Unstable employment and housing “means then their babies are directly impacted by this,” Turk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Social Safety Net Helps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, poor families are not completely on their own. Experts estimate that the child poverty numbers would be almost 15 percent higher — around one in three kids — if it wasn’t for the social safety net, a tapestry of local, state and federal programs that give help to impoverished families. From Section 8 housing vouchers, to food stamps, cash aid and subsidized preschool, the welfare benefits in California are robust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is funding for providing healthful food, milk or other dairy products. There’s subsidies for parent to make sure they’re in housing for their children. There are child care subsidies,” Turk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said these programs are clearly helping families from falling into complete disaster. Norma Sandoval agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom she works, my dad works, my boyfriend’s parents they work, so no one would be able to watch the baby,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She gets MediCal for her baby and food stamps, both state and federally funded programs. Her child care is also free, paid to her high school child care center by the state of California. But she’s one of the lucky ones. \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/1-2-million-california-children-eligible-subsidized-child-care-not-receive-services-state-programs-2015/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a 2016 report\u003c/a> from the California Budget and Policy Center, six out of seven parents eligible for child care subsidies did not get them, and the waiting list can be more than 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if I didn’t have child care I wouldn’t make it,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-800x668.jpg\" alt=\"Merced County resident Norma Sandoval holds her four-month-old son, Alex.\" width=\"800\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-800x668.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-1020x852.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-1200x1003.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merced County resident Norma Sandoval holds her four-month-old son, Alex. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the subsidies she gets, Sandoval still can’t buy all the basics for her baby. So she leans on her family, her unofficial safety net. She doesn’t pay rent to her boyfriend’s parents, and her own parents buy her extra food and the baby’s diapers, which add up to a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the safety net that holds parents like Sandoval is working, it’s also a byzantine system to navigate. It’s something that Monika Grasley, president of a nonprofit community organization in Merced called Lifeline CDC, sees parents struggle with every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t understand why we have food stamps that allow us to buy junk food but do not provide diapers, it makes no sense to me,” Grasley said. “So what it encourages parents to do is sell their food stamps so they can purchase diapers for their babies.” And with less resources, parents tend to choose the cheapest food option for their children, which oftentimes have little nutritional value, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasley said there are also many issues that impoverished families deal with for which government help is limited or nonexistent. Many that she works with don’t have transportation. They struggle to find child care, and some don’t even have a cell phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about how do I survive, not how do I thrive,” Grasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norma Sandoval herself grew up with very little. But she wants better for her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Slowly slowly we’re going to learn, slowly we’re going to get that help that we need to get a better life for us and our kids,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, on top of everything else she is juggling, Sandoval shows up to Yosemite High School which has a special program for teen moms like her. She’s got big dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plan is to finish high school, go to college and be a nurse,” Sandoval said. She admits before getting pregnant she hated school and used to ditch classes often. Now she wouldn’t do that, “because I have a baby and I want a better life for him and me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: This story is part of KQED’s series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/starting-blocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starting Blocks\u003c/a>, which is examining the hurdles faced by California’s kids, especially those in low income families.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After Gavin Newsom took the oath of office Monday — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716306/a-family-affair-as-gavin-newsom-becomes-californias-40th-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">becoming California’s 40th governor\u003c/a> — attention in the capital is turning to the state budget, Newsom’s first opportunity to officially lay out his administration’s policy priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the most progressive Democrat elected to the state’s highest office in decades, groups on the left \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703925/high-expectations-on-the-left-for-governor-elect-gavin-newsom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have high expectations\u003c/a> for funding on issues like child care, housing and health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter was addressed on Newsom’s first day in office, when the new governor announced he will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716531/newsoms-first-act-as-governor-expanding-health-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">propose expanding Medi-Cal\u003c/a> coverage to undocumented immigrants up to age 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with state coffers currently flush with cash, interest groups and Democratic legislators will surely press the new governor to spend more of it on their other priorities. Traditionally powerful Sacramento groups representing business and agriculture are also hoping to have their needs addressed in Newsom’s initial spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to a dozen different organizations to ask what they’d like to see from Newsom’s first budget. Here are some of their responses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716247\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 188px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11716247 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Herald-Mike-Legislative-Advocate-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Herald-Mike-Legislative-Advocate-2.jpg 188w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Herald-Mike-Legislative-Advocate-2-160x183.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Herald\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike Herald, director of policy advocacy, \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Center on Law and Poverty\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Western Center on Law and Poverty would like to see Governor Newsom end deep poverty for all \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/CalWORKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalWORKS\u003c/a> (California’s public assistance program) families by increasing CalWORKS grants above 50 percent of the federal poverty level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715988\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2.jpg 102w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Jacobsen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Jacobsen, CEO/executive director, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fcfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresno County Farm Bureau\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Central Valley faces many challenges over the next few years but none greater than the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). Combined with recently adopted increases in the minimum flow requirements to the Delta and water cutbacks from over the past decade, SGMA will have devastating, community-wide impacts. We hope to see Governor Newsom propose resources towards better understanding and mitigating the impacts of SGMA as well as contributing additional finances to capital projects that actually yield water supplies. State and local investment towards SGMA compliance is needed immediately and long-term in order to soften the impending losses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715964\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert.jpeg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Lempert\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Lempert, president, \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrennow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children Now\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope to see Governor Newsom proposes significant funding to support the whole child. In addition to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-gov-elect-gavin-newsom-will-propose-1546395091-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed investments\u003c/a> in early care and education, we hope to see additional funding for STEM education, especially early math and science for kids-of-color and girls, which will strengthen his focus on early childhood programs and school readiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715974\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 188px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715974\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyrone Buckley\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyrone Buckley, policy director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.housingca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Housing California\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11715972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/buckley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope to see Gov. Newsom surpass previous administrations by dedicating an ongoing portion of the budget to provide stable, affordable homes for the 1.5 million low-income families over-burdened by housing costs and the 130,000 Californians experiencing homelessness on any given night, which is the foundation we need if the new administration is committed to racial, health, and economic equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715977\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman.jpg 734w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman-160x130.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Wunderman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Council\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope Governor Newsom takes a measured approach to any new spending, focusing on California’s long-term fiscal stability and making strategic investments in critical areas like housing, transportation and education. We’re extremely excited about Gov. Newsom’s announcement to invest almost $2 billion in early education and child care, two areas that can return huge dividends for our economy and quality of life. Even more effective than spending precious public dollars to address California’s biggest challenges is focusing on legislative and policy reforms that can leverage the power of the marketplace to spur investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716557\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11716557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-160x185.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Roberson\" width=\"160\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-160x185.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-800x925.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-1020x1179.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-1038x1200.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Roberson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephanie Roberson, Government Relations Director, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/california-nurses-association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Nurses Association\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CNA supports funding that would restore the infrastructure of our communities, including but not limited to public education, access to safety net healthcare, and balancing a full budget. Apart from the budget, our priority for this next governor is to fully implement a \u003cem>Medicare for All\u003c/em> system in the state of California. This system is the best system that can cover all residents where they can enjoy comprehensive, safe, therapeutic health care, not just more insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716249\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11716249 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1-160x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1-160x182.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenore Anderson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lenore Anderson, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite major progress on criminal justice reform and reducing incarceration, the prison budget has remained stubbornly high. We would like to see a reduction in state prison spending in this budget and subsequent budgets and a corollary increase in investments in mental health treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After Gavin Newsom took the oath of office Monday — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716306/a-family-affair-as-gavin-newsom-becomes-californias-40th-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">becoming California’s 40th governor\u003c/a> — attention in the capital is turning to the state budget, Newsom’s first opportunity to officially lay out his administration’s policy priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the most progressive Democrat elected to the state’s highest office in decades, groups on the left \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703925/high-expectations-on-the-left-for-governor-elect-gavin-newsom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have high expectations\u003c/a> for funding on issues like child care, housing and health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter was addressed on Newsom’s first day in office, when the new governor announced he will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716531/newsoms-first-act-as-governor-expanding-health-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">propose expanding Medi-Cal\u003c/a> coverage to undocumented immigrants up to age 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with state coffers currently flush with cash, interest groups and Democratic legislators will surely press the new governor to spend more of it on their other priorities. Traditionally powerful Sacramento groups representing business and agriculture are also hoping to have their needs addressed in Newsom’s initial spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to a dozen different organizations to ask what they’d like to see from Newsom’s first budget. Here are some of their responses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716247\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 188px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11716247 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Herald-Mike-Legislative-Advocate-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Herald-Mike-Legislative-Advocate-2.jpg 188w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Herald-Mike-Legislative-Advocate-2-160x183.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Herald\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike Herald, director of policy advocacy, \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Center on Law and Poverty\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Western Center on Law and Poverty would like to see Governor Newsom end deep poverty for all \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/CalWORKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalWORKS\u003c/a> (California’s public assistance program) families by increasing CalWORKS grants above 50 percent of the federal poverty level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715988\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2.jpg 102w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Jacobsen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Jacobsen, CEO/executive director, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fcfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresno County Farm Bureau\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Central Valley faces many challenges over the next few years but none greater than the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). Combined with recently adopted increases in the minimum flow requirements to the Delta and water cutbacks from over the past decade, SGMA will have devastating, community-wide impacts. We hope to see Governor Newsom propose resources towards better understanding and mitigating the impacts of SGMA as well as contributing additional finances to capital projects that actually yield water supplies. State and local investment towards SGMA compliance is needed immediately and long-term in order to soften the impending losses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715964\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert.jpeg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Lempert\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Lempert, president, \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrennow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children Now\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope to see Governor Newsom proposes significant funding to support the whole child. In addition to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-gov-elect-gavin-newsom-will-propose-1546395091-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed investments\u003c/a> in early care and education, we hope to see additional funding for STEM education, especially early math and science for kids-of-color and girls, which will strengthen his focus on early childhood programs and school readiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715974\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 188px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715974\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyrone Buckley\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyrone Buckley, policy director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.housingca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Housing California\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11715972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/buckley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope to see Gov. Newsom surpass previous administrations by dedicating an ongoing portion of the budget to provide stable, affordable homes for the 1.5 million low-income families over-burdened by housing costs and the 130,000 Californians experiencing homelessness on any given night, which is the foundation we need if the new administration is committed to racial, health, and economic equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715977\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman.jpg 734w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman-160x130.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Wunderman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Council\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope Governor Newsom takes a measured approach to any new spending, focusing on California’s long-term fiscal stability and making strategic investments in critical areas like housing, transportation and education. We’re extremely excited about Gov. Newsom’s announcement to invest almost $2 billion in early education and child care, two areas that can return huge dividends for our economy and quality of life. Even more effective than spending precious public dollars to address California’s biggest challenges is focusing on legislative and policy reforms that can leverage the power of the marketplace to spur investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716557\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11716557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-160x185.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Roberson\" width=\"160\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-160x185.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-800x925.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-1020x1179.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-1038x1200.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Roberson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephanie Roberson, Government Relations Director, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/california-nurses-association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Nurses Association\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CNA supports funding that would restore the infrastructure of our communities, including but not limited to public education, access to safety net healthcare, and balancing a full budget. Apart from the budget, our priority for this next governor is to fully implement a \u003cem>Medicare for All\u003c/em> system in the state of California. This system is the best system that can cover all residents where they can enjoy comprehensive, safe, therapeutic health care, not just more insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716249\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11716249 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1-160x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1-160x182.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenore Anderson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lenore Anderson, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite major progress on criminal justice reform and reducing incarceration, the prison budget has remained stubbornly high. We would like to see a reduction in state prison spending in this budget and subsequent budgets and a corollary increase in investments in mental health treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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