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It is not the endpoint, nor was it ever intended to be. No one — and I’m sure Governor (Gavin) Newsom, State Board of Education President (Linda) Darling-Hammond, and (State) Superintendent (Tony) Thurmond agree — should take this as the last word, or anything close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicky Waters, a press secretary for the governor, said in a statement: “California is committed to closing opportunity gaps by directing extra support and resources to school districts and schools that serve students who need extra help.” She noted that California rejiggered its school funding formula in 2013 to target additional money to schools with a greater share of disadvantaged students, and added that Newsom’s 2020-21 budget would steer $600 million in “opportunity grants” to low-performing, high-poverty schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s announced settlement builds further on these proposed investments and focuses on strengthening early literacy programs, which are critical to a child’s later success in school,” Waters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/achievement-gap-california-explainer-schools-education-disparities-explained/\">California’s attempts at reform have led to mixed results\u003c/a>: While some gaps in achievement have narrowed, the gap between black students and their white and Asian peers has remained mostly stagnant. The slow improvement in results has fueled growing calls from some legislators and civil rights advocates to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2020/01/follow-the-money-are-changes-coming-for-california-school-funding-law/\">strengthen oversight\u003c/a> of how school districts spend extra money intended for students who are low-income, English learners and in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Introduced in Los Angeles County Superior Court in December 2017, the lawsuit listed the California Department of Education and State Board of Education as defendants. Plaintiffs claimed it was the “first in the nation” to seek to establish access to literacy as a constitutional right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs included current and former students of three California elementary schools with some of the lowest reading proficiency marks in California: La Salle Avenue Elementary in Los Angeles Unified School District, Van Buren Elementary in Stockton Unified and the Inglewood charter school Children of Promise Preparatory Academy. The suit sought to hold the state responsible for the students’ poor literacy, noting that 11 of the country’s 26 lowest-performing large school districts were based in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella T., a 7-year-old black student at La Salle Elementary when the complaint was introduced, did not receive the “intensive support” and interventions she needed by the time she left first grade reading below kindergarten level, according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='schools']Several other students of color represented in the complaint also were several grade levels behind in reading literacy. One black student who attended La Salle, identified in the suit as 11-year-old Russell W., did a book report for his fifth-grade class on “The Cat in the Hat,” a book meant for kindergarten readers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s settlement did not establish any precedent over whether students have a constitutional right to access to literacy, plaintiffs’ attorneys said. But they added that the settlement doesn’t ban them from suing the state over the issue again if it doesn’t follow through on improving literacy for disadvantaged students — the complaint’s central issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide reading and math proficiency under the Smarter Balanced exam has inched up about an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2019/10/california-schools-test-scores-2019-achievement-gap-caaspp-smarter-balanced/\">average of 1 percentage point each year\u003c/a> since the test debuted in 2015. 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"content": "\u003cp>Laying off 250 teachers and increasing class sizes are among the potentially unavoidable budget-cutting options facing West Contra Costa Unified School District, the district’s superintendent said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond-based district covers the cities of El Cerrito, San Pablo, Pinole, and Hercules and the unincorporated areas of East Richmond Heights, El Sobrante, Kensington, North Richmond, Bayview-Montalvin Manor and Tara Hills. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To come up with cuts totaling $32 million for 2020-21, “layoffs may be an unavoidable part of the solution,” said Superintendent Matthew Duffy in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wccusd.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=1&ModuleInstanceID=21184&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=65075&PageID=1\">recent budget update\u003c/a>, adding that cuts to central office administrators “sadly will be severe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a message to the community that includes Richmond and surrounding areas, Duffy wrote: “All of the reductions that will be made are painful and will in some way change the way this district provides services. As we tackle this problem and search for solutions, I want you to know that we are keenly aware of the potential impact these decisions will have on the programs and services the district provides to students and families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district and teachers’ union met Wednesday to negotiate the teacher cuts, as well as alternative cost-cutting options, which are expected to save $16 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have indicated that if we don’t come to some sort of agreement, they will be laying off 250 members and that doesn’t include other (non-teaching) staff,” said Demetrio Gonzalez-Hoy, president of the United Teachers of Richmond union. “So, we believe they could actually lay off about 400 employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the teacher layoffs, the district proposes other cuts: $6 million in contracts, $2 million in school site funds, $2 million by eliminating the positions of 10 high-level administrators, and negotiating the remaining $6 million with its three other unions that represent non-teaching workers such as instructional assistants, as well as supervisors and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district needs to make the cuts to balance its budget in the wake of ballooning deficits that the district has been grappling with since June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is important for the community to know that the central office will sacrifice enormously in order to help balance our budget,” Duffy said, explaining that these reductions are being made “to keep cuts away from the classrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, classrooms are also expected to be deeply affected, said Gonzalez-Hoy. He and officials from the district’s other unions are trying to hammer out one-year agreements with the district for cuts, in the hopes that they could be reinstated the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/West-Contra-Costa-Unified-Map-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the West Contra Costa Unified School District\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11800543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/West-Contra-Costa-Unified-Map.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/West-Contra-Costa-Unified-Map-160x102.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expressing shock and dismay, teachers’ union leaders said they did not agree with anything the district laid out in its \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FTe1a1TUUJSRlvkj3cqHh54ebv7-sgD-/view\">initial proposal\u003c/a>, which included the elimination of stipends for teachers who attend special education and other extra meetings, and a school-wide class-size average of 28, with an average of 34 in grades 7-8, 39 in secondary core classes and 55 in physical education and some performing arts courses. The district also proposed increasing counselor loads to 700 students to eliminate about 16 counselor positions and eliminating stipends for special credentials and degrees, as well as for leading departments or training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The class sizes they were proposing were egregious,” Gonzalez-Hoy said. “We haven’t had them that high in over 16 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To emphasize the union’s priorities and concerns, its site rep council — which includes representatives from each of the district’s 55 schools — adopted a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UBUA0ITwBl4NJRAXrBTNaLJTUIcfgUsB/view\">resolution\u003c/a> that blamed the budget problem on “gross fiscal mismanagement” of funds that it predicted would disproportionately affect students of color, English learners and special education students and teachers, “consequently intensifying structural racism on historically targeted communities and exacerbating social justice, the opportunity gap and racial wealth gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Wold, the district’s associate superintendent for business services, said he is optimistic that the district will be able to come up with cuts collaboratively with the unions. He also said no special education services will be cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cuts will hurt,” he said. “But we need to make them. We need to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='teachers']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the teachers’ union, Wold is trying to negotiate cuts of $2 million with the Teamsters Union that represents non-teaching positions such as instructional assistants, $1.25 million with the School Supervisors Association that represents managers who do not oversee teachers and $3.25 million with the West Contra Costa Administrators Association that represents principals and other administrators who oversee educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board expects to vote on the first $8 million in cuts Feb. 12 and to finalize cuts by Feb. 26 or March 11, before it issues preliminary layoff notices to teachers and certificated management by March 15. In an effort to reduce the number of layoffs, the district is offering a $2,000 bonus to all permanent certificated union employees and $1,500 to all non-teaching union employees who notify it by Feb. 14 if they intend to resign or retire at the end of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the unions do not come to agreement before March 15, Wold said the district will need to send preliminary layoff notices to all teachers who may lose their jobs, but added that those would not be finalized until May. He said layoff notices for non-teaching staff members must be approved by April 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Wold and Gonzalez-Hoy said they are hoping that voters will approve a ballot measure proposed in November that would provide more funding to schools statewide, which could ease the district’s budget concerns for 2021-22, when it anticipates it will need to cut another $16 million. Wold pointed out that other districts such as Oakland Unified and San Diego Unified are also having to make cuts, but Gonzalez-Hoy said West Contra Costa’s fiscal problems are in part due to overspending and lax fiscal controls over the past few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wold, who was hired in August, agreed that the district has made budgeting mistakes in the past. 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"content": "\u003cp>Starting this year, routine pediatric visits for millions of California children could involve questions about touchy family topics, such as divorce, unstable housing or a parent who struggles with alcoholism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California now will pay doctors to screen patients for traumatic events known as adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, if the patient is covered by Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The screening program is rooted in \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/california-looks-to-lead-nation-aces-screening-childhood-trauma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decades of research\u003c/a> that suggests children who endure sustained stress in their day-to-day lives undergo biochemical changes to their brains and bodies that can dramatically increase their risk of developing serious health problems, including heart disease, asthma, depression and cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health and welfare advocates hope that widespread screening of children for ACEs, accompanied by early intervention, will help reduce the ongoing stresses and skirt the onset of physical illness, or at least ensure an illness is treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Dayna Long, a pediatrician at UCSF\"]‘We’re not going to make all the hard things go away, but we can help families build resilience and reduce stress.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher the number of such adverse events — and so, the higher a child’s ACEs “score” — the higher the risk of chronic illness and premature death. About 63% of Californians have experienced at least one adverse childhood event, and nearly 18% have faced four or more, according to state health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the first state to create a formal reimbursement strategy for ACEs screening, and the program will be open to both children and adults enrolled in Medi-Cal. The initiative is part of a larger \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/ACEs-AWARE-INITIATIVE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACEs awareness campaign\u003c/a> championed by the state’s first surgeon general, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime/discussion?CMP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Nadine Burke Harris\u003c/a>, who is a national leader in the ACEs movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public health impact could be significant as Medi-Cal covers 5.3 million kids — roughly 40% of all California children — and 6.3 million adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a profound shift that’s going to change the type of prevention and management we do with families,” said Dr. Dayna Long, a pediatrician who is director of the Center for Child and Community Health at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and helped develop the state-approved screening tool for children and teens. “We’re not going to make all the hard things go away, but we can help families build resilience and reduce stress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five key things to know about ACEs and the state’s new screening program:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>1. How it Works\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>At a typical well-child visit, parents or caregivers will be asked to fill out a state-approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.acesaware.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/PEARLS-Tool-Child-Parent-Caregiver-Report-De-Identified-English.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">questionnaire\u003c/a> about potentially stressful experiences in their children’s lives. For children under age 12, caregivers fill out the survey. Young people ages 12-19 will complete their own questionnaire in addition to their caregivers’ questionnaire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questions will touch on 10 categories of adversity spanning the first 18 years of life: physical, emotional or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect; and experiences that could indicate household dysfunction, such as a parent who has a serious mental illness or addiction, having parents who are incarcerated or living in a home with domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=mindshift_54373 label='Does every moment matter?' hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/happy-childhood-photos-de61f9ac60f2b9d24a1196c86e0d47be30eebaea-1020x765.jpg\"]The screening will measure for experiences that could regularly trigger fear and anxiety, including homelessness, not having enough food or the right kinds of food, and growing up in a neighborhood marred by drugs and violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Long acknowledged some caregivers and children might be reluctant or unwilling to disclose sensitive information, particularly if they fear shame or repercussions. “We acknowledge it takes time to build trust,” she said. “But we want to encourage families to have hard conversations with their doctors and to understand how stressful events over the life of the child are impacting that child’s health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physicians will review the responses and discuss them with caregivers during the visit. Doctors will have access to free online training on how to communicate with families and connect them to community resources. Physicians will be eligible for a $29 reimbursement for each Medi-Cal patient screened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The responses are considered confidential patient information and won’t be shared with state officials. But researchers hope that aggregated information will be studied to improve care for patients with high ACEs scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>2. Screenings Are Voluntary\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Doctors do not need to offer them, and patients and their caregivers do not have to participate. Doctors will need to complete online training before they can be paid for screening patients. The state will cover the costs of screening once a year for children and once in a lifetime for adults. But children are the main focus of the screening campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>3. What Happens After the Screening Is Less Clear\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Community clinics often have social workers or “navigators” available to connect families to aid like food stamps or counseling. Doctors in private practice, however, are less likely to have those resources, said Dr. Eric Ball, an Orange County pediatrician who served on a committee advising the surgeon general on the ACEs campaign. Ball said local chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics will work to educate doctors on how to help children who register high ACEs scores, because social services vary so much by county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors “are not going to get rich doing ACEs screenings, that’s not the point,” Ball said. “If we can pick up kids at higher risk for these issues down the road and mitigate it, that’s really exciting to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>4. Researchers Aren’t Yet Sure Which Interventions Will Best Help Kids With High ACEs Scores\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Long and her UCSF Benioff colleagues are \u003ca href=\"https://clinicaltrials.ucsf.edu/trial/NCT04182906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continuing to study\u003c/a> how well the ACEs screening works and what interventions might be most effective. It’s one thing to help hungry families sign up for food stamps and free school lunches. It’s less clear how to help a child whose parent is in prison. Researchers have identified protective factors that can help children better resist the effects of toxic stress, including nurturing relationships with trusted adults, such as grandparents or teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact of screening is also an intervention,” Long said. “Being able to sit in a room with a pediatrician is not going to make those hard experiences go away, but it creates a freedom to talk about some things that are solvable. That’s therapeutic in and of itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>5. Not Everyone Agrees That Widespread ACEs Screening Is a Good Idea\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Sociologist David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, is among those who caution that universal screening for ACEs is premature, given there is little consensus about the potential negative effects of screening or the best interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1938819,news_11724781,futureofyou_439851\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]“The good news is that we are focusing on these adversities that are clearly the source of so many downstream health and mental health problems,” Finkelhor said. “But the bad news is we’re moving way too fast, before we know how to best conduct this kind of screening and intervention, and we could get it wrong with pretty disastrous consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mostly, we don’t know what to do with somebody who has a high ACE score,” he said. “There are already long waits to get into family counseling or child mental health programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a doctor might be legally required to report previous abuse to authorities, upending a family even if the child no longer is exposed to the abuser, Finkelhor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are tough questions,” Long of UCSF acknowledged. Still, she said, screening is important, because it encourages physicians to engage in difficult conversations they might not otherwise have and pushes clinics to create links to supportive services and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the next phase, and that is important,” Long said. “We’re doing this because we care about your child and want them to grow into healthy adults.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KHN\u003c/a> story first published on \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Healthline\u003c/a>, a service of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a> (KHN) is a national health policy news service. 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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco teenager claimed in late 2015 that counselors at a now shuttered Pennsylvania reform school assaulted kids at the facility, allegations that were substantiated by California regulators and that contradict statements made by San Francisco’s top juvenile justice official.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Unidentified San Francisco Teen\"]‘Some body have to do something about this tell them I don’t feel safe here. And that staff is threat me. I love you mom.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The staff in here be fighting the kids up in here. Some of them be jumping us,” the unidentified juvenile wrote in the letter postmarked Sept. 11, 2015, to his mother about his experience at the Glen Mills Schools in suburban Philadelphia. The letter is transcribed in California investigative reports obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today the P.M. Senior Counselor was punching me in my chest and neck. He told me he was going to throw me down a flight of stairs and that he could kill me and get away with it,” the teen wrote. “He constantly threats us that he go beat us up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a Philadelphia Inquirer \u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/crime/a/glen-mills-schools-pa-abuse-juvenile-investigation-20190220.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> revealed allegations of extreme physical abuse by some staff at Glen Mills, which was considered the nation’s oldest “reform school” for male youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper’s reporting, which also pointed to efforts by the schools’ officials to cover up the allegations, led Pennsylvania regulators to close the school’s campus, revoke its licenses and pull out juveniles housed there. Glen Mills is appealing the closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742455/how-california-teens-wound-up-at-pennsylvania-school-accused-of-battering-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For years California counties sent scores of teenage boys in trouble with the law to Glen Mills\u003c/a>, one of a number of facilities outside California used for juvenile placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen Nance, San Francisco’s top juvenile probation official, told KQED in April that he had never heard of problems from any of the some 30 boys the city had sent to Glen Mills over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nance, who recently lost a political battle to stop the closure — in late 2021 — of the juvenile hall he runs, said then that his department was “very fond” of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11742455 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser.jpg\"]“In fact, among our juvenile justice practitioners, Glen Mills was one of the more popular placement sites for some our most difficult-to-place youth,” Nance said then. “We were fortunate to not have had any bad experiences with Glen Mills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That contradicts documents obtained from the California Department of Social Services through a California Public Records Act request that show San Francisco officials were aware of the boy’s claim of widespread abuse at Glen Mills and kept in the loop on the department’s investigation into them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions last week about the state investigation omitted from his previous answers, Nance said he has requested that his staff research the matter and he would respond when he had more information. He failed to provide an explanation in time for a Monday deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations came to the attention of state regulators after the boy’s mother called Dorothy Ellis, a deputy probation officer in San Francisco’s Juvenile Probation Department, the records show. Ellis then referred the information to the state Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello Carol and Ron I am sending this email to report an allegation of abuse at Glen Mills,” Ellis wrote in a Sept. 16, 2015, email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy’s letter prompted an investigations by California social services officials, who are required to certify out-of-state facilities where juveniles are placed and investigate allegations of abuse at those places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781578\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-800x322.jpg\" alt=\"An excerpt from investigatory records provided by the California Department of Social Services quoting a September 2015 letter a San Francisco boy housed at the Glen Mills Schools in Pennsylvania wrote alleging abuse at the hands of staff.\" width=\"800\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-800x322.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-160x64.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-1020x410.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2.jpg 1157w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from investigatory records provided by the California Department of Social Services quoting a September 2015 letter a San Francisco boy housed at the Glen Mills Schools in Pennsylvania wrote alleging abuse at the hands of staff. \u003ccite>(Via California Department of Social Services)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The teen’s letter recounts abuse toward him and others at the reform school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other staff pair up and try to fight the kids. Nobody does a thing about it and the kids to scared to say anything about it. He beat up three other kids giving one of them a black eye,” the San Francisco boy wrote to his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy asked her to call his probation officer or the officer’s supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some body have to do something about this tell them I don’t feel safe here. And that staff is threat me. I love you mom,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Department of Social Services analyst investigated the accusations, which included interviewing the boy and other kids at Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials sent their findings to the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services on Oct. 12, 2015, naming the staff member accused of abuse, and substantiating the teen’s claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our stance that staff Eric Adams is indeed conducting acts of physical pain including punching resulting in client injury and fear,” the analyst, Ronald Leslie, wrote. “As a result, we do not feel California youth are safe in his presence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glen Mills placed Adams on administrative leave the next day. A week later he was fired, representing the only case in which an investigation from California regulators led to the termination of an employee at the Pennsylvania reform school, according to Adam Weintraub, a spokesman for the state Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jubelirer, a spokesman for Glen Mills, would not provide more details about the case other than to confirm that Adams was fired in a move prompted by California’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Adams was terminated surrounding allegations of abuse that were substantiated by the state of California,” Jubelirer said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his LinkedIn page, Adams worked at Glen Mills for close to three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco stopped sending juveniles to Glen Mills in 2016, San Francisco juvenile probation chief Nance said last spring. He said then that the decision to halt the relationship with the reform school had nothing to do with concerns about abuse there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks after the Inquirer published its investigation into Glen Mills, Pennsylvania regulators closed the campus and revoked its licenses, a move that Glen Mills has appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can find more on the Inquirer’s investigation into Glen Mills and its aftermath by visiting the \u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/author/gartner_lisa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">author page\u003c/a> of the reporter who broke the story, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lisagartner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Gartner\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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>\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>\u003cem>In KQED’s new series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/starting-blocks\">Starting Blocks\u003c/a>, we’ll look more closely at why California has failed to gain traction on addressing the needs of kids and what it will take to change that.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his first minutes as governor, Gavin Newsom made it clear helping children was going to be a big part of his administration when his two-year-old son, Dutch, walked onto the stage during his inaugural address. Newsom scooped him up and kept talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My wife Jennifer and I have four children,” he said. “There’s nothing more important, I hope you can tell, than giving them a good and happy life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in that same speech, Newsom made clear he realizes not all kids are as lucky as his own. He listed some of the issues California has to deal with to improve the lives of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An achievement gap in our schools and a readiness gap that holds back millions of our kids. And too many of our children know the ache of chronic hunger,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/region/2/california/summary#37/family-economics\">20 percent of California children live in poverty — that number is higher for black and Latino kids. \u003c/a>And, depending on their grade, nearly 60 percent of school children aren’t proficient in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/127/readingproficiency/Bar#fmt=133&loc=2&tf=88&pdist=33&ch=1249,1250,623,1251,624,1252,1253,1255&sort=loc\">reading\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://scorecard.childrennow.org/?ind=mathStandards8&yr=1\">math\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids in California are not faring well and there’s really no excuse for that,” said Ted Lempert, president of Children Now, a California advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re obviously a strong economy. We’re relatively high in taxes. We’re a progressive state,” Lempert said. “There’s really no excuse for the fact that far too many of our kids aren’t getting the basic support to reach their potential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://scorecard.childrennow.org/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lempert gives Newsom credit for focusing on early childhood in his budget. The governor has proposed investing in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/BudgetSummary/EarlyChildhood.pdf\">universal full-day kindergarten, universal preschool and improving access to state subsidized child care\u003c/a>. Lempert said those issues are critical to making sure kids from poor families get equal opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='starting-blocks' label='Starting Blocks']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wealthy families are spending an enormous amount of money to make sure their kids have those services early on. Too many kids have absolutely nothing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislature is trying to address the unequal playing field, too. At a \u003ca href=\"https://speaker.asmdc.org/blue-ribbon-commission-early-childhood-education\">recent hearing on early childhood education\u003c/a>, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said investing in young children is one of the most important things the state can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s early childhood education that turns around communities,” he said. “It’s early childhood education that breaks the cycle of poverty in families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are quick to point out that California’s problems persist despite Democrats controlling the state for nearly a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have people that don’t feel safe in their own communities. We’ve become 45th when it comes to education. We are the poverty capital of the country,” said Jessica Patterson, chair of the California GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Ted Lempert, president of Children Now']‘There’s really no excuse for the fact that far too many of our kids aren’t getting the basic support to reach their potential.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While specific rankings vary, California is consistently ranked high when it comes to poverty rates, especially when accounting for cost of living, and it falls toward the bottom of the list for education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education is just one of the challenges children face, and for too long, there hasn’t been the political will to help them, Lempert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have kids facing huge immigration challenges, kids facing racism, kids facing trauma,” he said. “But the majority of the public is saying we need to make sure every kid has the support they need. And yet that’s not getting translated into political action.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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. 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