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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom called the scramble for supplies \"the wild, wild, west\"— a months-long free-for-all by state and local governments to purchase protective equipment, ventilators and testing supplies needed on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lack of coordination by the federal government left states like California on their own to negotiate contracts for goods desperately needed to protect health care workers and safeguard the reopening of businesses as the world attempts to respond to a global pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Into that void stepped some suppliers who \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-23/coronavirus-california-masks-ppe-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">charged sky-high prices\u003c/a> for masks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963700/california-wired-456-9-million-to-a-fledgling-company-to-pay-for-masks-within-hours-the-deal-was-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Other deals fell through\u003c/a> entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all took off on a plane that we were building as we were flying,\" Newsom said on May 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another path may have been possible: the enactment of a state-level Defense Production Act, allowing California to marshal its enormous economy to mandate the production, and control the costs, of much-needed supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move would have been a challenge, but not impossible. The concept of a state-level act raises logistical and legal challenges that may have posed problems in the middle of an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal Defense Production Act, enacted in 1950 during the Korean War, gives the U.S. president wide powers to mobilize industry in order to prevent supply shortages. [aside tag=\"coronavirus, politics\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the act, the president can require businesses to prioritize government contracts above other orders, redistribute supplies to where they are most needed and even direct companies to produce vitally needed goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has been widely criticized for not using the law's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821285204/trump-sends-mixed-messages-about-invoking-defense-production-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full authority\u003c/a> in addressing a nationwide shortage of tests and protective equipment. As the coronavirus pandemic worsened and health care workers and epidemiologists pleaded for more masks and testing supplies, Trump told state officials they were responsible for procuring the goods they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, this led to a rush by the Newsom administration to secure contracts with manufacturers across the globe, while encouraging companies based in the Golden State to pitch in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early April, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/04/governor-newsom-launches-one-stop-website-for-donations-sales-of-essential-medical-supplies-in-fight-against-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched a website\u003c/a> to request donations and solicit offers for medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of companies voluntarily converted their production to meet the state's needs, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809502/photos-gov-newsom-and-san-jose-mayor-sam-liccardo-tour-ventilator-refurbishing-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloom Energy\u003c/a>, a San Jose-based fuel cell generator company that switched to refurbishing ventilators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state largely focused on striking deals with existing suppliers of personal protective equipment, including many outside California. State legislators have pushed the governor for more transparency into some of the larger deals, like the $1 billion purchase of protective masks from a Chinese car company\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-06/california-coronavirus-mask-price-byd-coronavirus\"> disclosed on May 6\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other deals for equipment fell apart entirely, including a half-billion dollar payment for medical supplies to a company now under federal investigation, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/05/california-mask-deal-blue-flame-collapsed-republican-vendor-maryland-porter-gula-thomas/\">first reported by CalMatters.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some larger contracts that didn’t cost the taxpayers a penny but were cautionary tales,\" Newsom said when pressed about the deal this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing this cutthroat marketplace, some governors have longed for the certainty that could come from a state-level Defense Production Act: the potential to strong-arm suppliers within state lines and avoid an international bidding war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I had a Defense Production Act in the state, I would use it,\" New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last month. \"I don't have that tool, the federal government does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Constitution gives the federal government the power to regulate the national economy under the Commerce Clause. States have historically been prevented from taking actions that interfere with interstate business by a legal doctrine known as the Dormant Commerce Clause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the idea of a state-level Defense Production Act could pass legal muster. \"California or other states could do something very much like the Defense Production Act,\" said Stanford Law School professor Bernadette Meyler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The principal aspects [of the DPA] that have been relevant on the federal level are price controls and trying to make sure that people aren't exploiting the emergency by raising the price of particular needed goods or essential items,\" Meyler said. \"The states could also do the same thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of competing in a marketplace against other states and nations all desperate for the same supplies, California would be able to ask suppliers within its borders to place the state at the front of the line for orders, or even require manufacturers to shift their production lines to create swabs, medical glass and masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any attempt by the state Legislature to create these new economic powers would likely face legal challenges from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General William Barr has warned states that his office is already \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/c76e764141179075244ecfd5f1bb5e19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the lookout\u003c/a> for any encroachment on the federal government's oversight of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do have a national economy which is the responsibility of the federal government. So it is possible that governors will take measures that impair interstate commerce,\" Barr said on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hughhewitt.com/attorney-general-william-barr-on-the-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hugh Hewitt Show\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last month. \"And just where that line is drawn, you know, remains to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Dormant Commerce Clause has not been understood to automatically override a state's interest in protecting public safety, said John Yoo, a law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because a state does something that may impact interstate commerce does not mean it's automatically unconstitutional,\" said Yoo, who worked in the Department of Justice during the George W. Bush administration. \"Generally, what the courts have done is to say the state can't pass a law which on its face discriminates against out-of-staters,\" such as only allowing California residents to participate in a certain industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa\"] \"I just don't think that the loss of manufacturing that we've had in the state of California really lends itself to the type of manufacturing that we're looking for here.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no reason why the state couldn't enact a law that allows it to purchase emergency products and to require that manufacturers prioritized state emergency needs first,\" Yoo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California would still have to pay companies a fair price to produce goods for the state. Costs could be contained by the state's existing laws against price gouging, already activated by the governor's emergency declaration — prevent manufacturers from raising prices on medical supplies by more than 10% of their pre-disaster cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Meyler, the Stanford law professor said, \"If the states were able to provide just compensation, they could and should go ahead and mandate production of essential items.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the idea of a California Defense Production Act seems to have made little headway at the state Capitol, though not for legal reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's much-touted status as the world’s fifth-largest economy belies the reality that the state's manufacturing base has declined dramatically from the mid-20th century, when California factories churned out battleships, ammunition and canned food to power the military during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just don't think that the loss of manufacturing that we've had in the state of California really lends itself to the type of manufacturing that we're looking for here,\" said state Sen. 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[aside postID=\"news_11809423, news_11808531\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As coronavirus hospitalizations climbed in March and early April, state leaders felt they couldn't wait for a reshaping of the state's economy to provide the kind of large-scale production of equipment that was already being produced elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We considered it, but we felt there were a lot of things already happening, and the necessity to move quickly required us to use more of these traditional supply chains,\" Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These very large-scale procurements of masks ... are in the tens of millions, hundreds of millions when we’re done with all of this,\" he added. \"We felt that was a better way of going to meet the immediate needs because of the time delay of getting these other companies up and moving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodd said California's struggle to purchase emergency supplies has exposed the state and country's reliance on international markets — and could lead state leaders to reconsider the question in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you're in a global pandemic, everybody needs the same thing you have and when you don't manufacture it at home, there are problems,\" Dodd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That said, the demand for these items are not 365 days a year for 50 years straight, so it's a little more difficult,\" he added. \"But we need to be thinking about how we do this in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the act, the president can require businesses to prioritize government contracts above other orders, redistribute supplies to where they are most needed and even direct companies to produce vitally needed goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has been widely criticized for not using the law's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821285204/trump-sends-mixed-messages-about-invoking-defense-production-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full authority\u003c/a> in addressing a nationwide shortage of tests and protective equipment. As the coronavirus pandemic worsened and health care workers and epidemiologists pleaded for more masks and testing supplies, Trump told state officials they were responsible for procuring the goods they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, this led to a rush by the Newsom administration to secure contracts with manufacturers across the globe, while encouraging companies based in the Golden State to pitch in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early April, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/04/governor-newsom-launches-one-stop-website-for-donations-sales-of-essential-medical-supplies-in-fight-against-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched a website\u003c/a> to request donations and solicit offers for medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of companies voluntarily converted their production to meet the state's needs, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809502/photos-gov-newsom-and-san-jose-mayor-sam-liccardo-tour-ventilator-refurbishing-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloom Energy\u003c/a>, a San Jose-based fuel cell generator company that switched to refurbishing ventilators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state largely focused on striking deals with existing suppliers of personal protective equipment, including many outside California. State legislators have pushed the governor for more transparency into some of the larger deals, like the $1 billion purchase of protective masks from a Chinese car company\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-06/california-coronavirus-mask-price-byd-coronavirus\"> disclosed on May 6\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other deals for equipment fell apart entirely, including a half-billion dollar payment for medical supplies to a company now under federal investigation, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/05/california-mask-deal-blue-flame-collapsed-republican-vendor-maryland-porter-gula-thomas/\">first reported by CalMatters.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some larger contracts that didn’t cost the taxpayers a penny but were cautionary tales,\" Newsom said when pressed about the deal this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing this cutthroat marketplace, some governors have longed for the certainty that could come from a state-level Defense Production Act: the potential to strong-arm suppliers within state lines and avoid an international bidding war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I had a Defense Production Act in the state, I would use it,\" New York Gov. 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States have historically been prevented from taking actions that interfere with interstate business by a legal doctrine known as the Dormant Commerce Clause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the idea of a state-level Defense Production Act could pass legal muster. \"California or other states could do something very much like the Defense Production Act,\" said Stanford Law School professor Bernadette Meyler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The principal aspects [of the DPA] that have been relevant on the federal level are price controls and trying to make sure that people aren't exploiting the emergency by raising the price of particular needed goods or essential items,\" Meyler said. \"The states could also do the same thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of competing in a marketplace against other states and nations all desperate for the same supplies, California would be able to ask suppliers within its borders to place the state at the front of the line for orders, or even require manufacturers to shift their production lines to create swabs, medical glass and masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any attempt by the state Legislature to create these new economic powers would likely face legal challenges from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General William Barr has warned states that his office is already \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/c76e764141179075244ecfd5f1bb5e19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the lookout\u003c/a> for any encroachment on the federal government's oversight of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do have a national economy which is the responsibility of the federal government. So it is possible that governors will take measures that impair interstate commerce,\" Barr said on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hughhewitt.com/attorney-general-william-barr-on-the-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hugh Hewitt Show\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last month. \"And just where that line is drawn, you know, remains to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Dormant Commerce Clause has not been understood to automatically override a state's interest in protecting public safety, said John Yoo, a law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because a state does something that may impact interstate commerce does not mean it's automatically unconstitutional,\" said Yoo, who worked in the Department of Justice during the George W. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no reason why the state couldn't enact a law that allows it to purchase emergency products and to require that manufacturers prioritized state emergency needs first,\" Yoo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California would still have to pay companies a fair price to produce goods for the state. Costs could be contained by the state's existing laws against price gouging, already activated by the governor's emergency declaration — prevent manufacturers from raising prices on medical supplies by more than 10% of their pre-disaster cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Meyler, the Stanford law professor said, \"If the states were able to provide just compensation, they could and should go ahead and mandate production of essential items.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the idea of a California Defense Production Act seems to have made little headway at the state Capitol, though not for legal reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's much-touted status as the world’s fifth-largest economy belies the reality that the state's manufacturing base has declined dramatically from the mid-20th century, when California factories churned out battleships, ammunition and canned food to power the military during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just don't think that the loss of manufacturing that we've had in the state of California really lends itself to the type of manufacturing that we're looking for here,\" said state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodd, who chairs the Senate Governmental Organization Committee, overseeing disaster response, said California companies such as 3-D printing manufacturers have come forward, willing to help contribute to the state's effort to produce more protective equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality is, while it's very generous and every mask helps, it's really not able to be done at a scale that really makes a difference,\" Dodd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Newsom acknowledged that avenue was considered, but ultimately passed over, in the early weeks of the outbreak — as the state rushed to establish supply chains for protective gear and ventilators. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest unemployment data\u003c/a> show the national job market — and California’s, for that matter — in the toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Silicon Valley, the job market isn’t quite so grim — not just despite the coronavirus pandemic, but perhaps because of it. Even as the rest of the economy tanks, these are reasonably good days to be hunting for a mid-level white collar job in web development or tech support. Think about it: We’re all online more than ever. We’re shopping on Amazon, watching live concerts on Facebook, storing ever more photos on Apple’s iCloud, and \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/trends/story/US_cu_4Rjdh3ABAABMHM_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">searching\u003c/a> for baking recipes on Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/?results_per_page=5&offices%5B0%5D=Fremont%2C%20CA&offices%5B1%5D=Los%20Angeles%2C%20CA&offices%5B2%5D=Menlo%20Park%2C%20CA&offices%5B3%5D=Mountain%20View%2C%20CA&offices%5B4%5D=Northridge%2C%20CA&offices%5B5%5D=San%20Francisco%2C%20CA&offices%5B6%5D=Santa%20Clara%2C%20CA&offices%5B7%5D=Sausalito%2C%20CA&offices%5B8%5D=Sunnyvale%2C%20CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://careers.microsoft.com/professionals/us/en/l-bayarea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?location=united-states-USA+california-state953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?base_query=&loc_query=California&type=area&latitude=38.57944&longitude=-121.49085®ion=California&country=USA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?company=Google&company=Google%20Fiber&company=YouTube&employment_type=FULL_TIME&hl=en_US&jlo=en_US&location=California,%20USA&q=&sort_by=relevance&src=Online%2FHouse%20Ads%2FBKWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alphabet\u003c/a> make up nearly \u003ca href=\"https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nasdaq-composite-erases-2020-losses-strong-tech-earnings-stock-market-2020-4-1029178443\">40% of the market value\u003c/a> of the Nasdaq. Sure enough, all five tech titans are hiring by the hundreds, if not the thousands, in California alone. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently told CNBC that the Menlo Park-based social media giant plans to hire \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/02/sandberg-facebook-to-add-10000-new-workers-by-end-of-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10,000 people\u003c/a> this year in product and engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Size Matters Now\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Experts say this particular economic downturn is favoring giants with the cash reserves to wait out a temporary revenue drop or who can pivot to expand in markets with more potential for profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1056px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816241\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM.png\" alt=\"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, interviewed Stanford vaccine expert Dr. Bonnie Maldonado on Facebook Live on May 1, 2020. The event was not a riveting plug for the video streaming service but more than 35,000 people did try to watch.\" width=\"1056\" height=\"1030\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM.png 1056w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-160x156.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-800x780.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-1020x995.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, interviewed Stanford vaccine expert Dr. Bonnie Maldonado on Facebook Live on May 1, 2020. The event was not a riveting plug for the video streaming service, but more than 35,000 people did try to watch. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, the online video market, which is exploding right now thanks to the pandemic. Facebook’s offerings in the market include Livestream, Messenger, and most recently, Messenger Rooms, which allows up to 50 people to chat at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft declined to comment for this story, but on LinkedIn, which the Seattle software giant owns, Microsoft listed nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?keywords=Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">300,000 jobs\u003c/a> worldwide at the time of this article’s publication.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.jobs/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon\u003c/a> has hired 175,000 people in its fulfillment and delivery network just since March, but the media focus on its retail and warehouse operations often obscures the fact that the Seattle-based company also employs armies of software developers, technical project managers and the like. Amazon is looking for more than 3,000 people in California alone currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the biggest names in Silicon Valley, medium-sized tech employers are also looking to hire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we have not increased our hiring in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, now more than ever, we remain committed to attracting top talent across key areas of our business,” wrote a spokeswoman for Genentech, the South San Francisco drugmaker owned by Roche. “So far this year, we have filled more than 1,600 positions and currently have over \u003ca href=\"https://www.gene.com/careers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1,200 roles open\u003c/a> across many areas of our business, including research and development, manufacturing, sales and marketing and IT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a spokesman for \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.vmware.com/careers/2020/04/message-from-vmware-vp-of-talent-acquisition-on-hiring-and-supporting-our-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VMware\u003c/a>, the Palo Alto-based software company has more than 300 openings in California and more than 1,400 globally. VMware’s vice president of talent acquisition \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.vmware.com/careers/2020/04/message-from-vmware-vp-of-talent-acquisition-on-hiring-and-supporting-our-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote recently\u003c/a>, “Our hiring efforts are focused on supporting VMware’s five strategic priorities: App Modernization, Multi-Cloud, Virtual Cloud Network, Digital Workspace and Intrinsic Security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara-based \u003ca href=\"https://jobs.intel.com/ListJobs/All\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intel\u003c/a> has posted more than 700 jobs on its website, more than 70 of which are based here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It’s Not All Full-time or Stable Work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, Silicon Valley’s biggest employers have hedged their hiring bets by splitting payroll between full-time employees and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741371/two-tiered-caste-system-the-world-of-white-collar-contracting-in-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contractors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2029px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Shirley Deng of Hayward is in the market for a marketing job in Silicon Valley. She's getting call backs, but says she'd have an easier time of it if she was looking for a position on the techier side of tech.\" width=\"2029\" height=\"1108\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM.jpeg 2029w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-160x87.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-800x437.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-1020x557.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-1920x1048.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2029px) 100vw, 2029px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Deng of Hayward is in the market for a marketing job in Silicon Valley. She’s getting call backs, but says she’d have an easier time of it if she was looking for a position on the techier side of tech. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are the top five hiring categories in the Bay Area over the past eight weeks on Santa Clara-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.upwork.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Upwork\u003c/a>, an employment platform for white collar gig work which posts more than 8,000 freelance jobs a day worldwide:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Web Development\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video Production\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Graphics and Design\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Web and Mobile Design\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Technical Support\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing a lot of activity around web development, around video production. Technical support is a big one. So there’s a lot of activity where, you know, people are young trying to deploy, install and maintain technical systems for their business,” said Hayden Brown, Upwork’s president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown adds that, in 2020, it doesn’t make sense to draw an arbitrary line between Silicon Valley and the rest of the economy when it comes to tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increasingly, almost every company is becoming something of a digital business,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of that said, your employment security depends in large part on the stability of the company you work for, as the pandemic appears to be most lethal to companies that were struggling before the onset of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Deng was laid off in April, when the Palo Alto-based, no-fee payday lender startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.earnin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earnin\u003c/a> gutted its marketing department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stable is like a relative term,” Deng said ruefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Deng would prefer to work for a bigger company. She owns a house in Hayward with her fiance, and he’s still working, but paying the mortgage could become a concern in about six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of good companies that I might want to work for or envision myself with are holding off on hiring now. Like tech companies have hiring freezes unless it’s a very technical role, where it’s like engineering or developer,” Deng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers back up Deng’s assessment of the market. You can see who’s hiring and who’s letting people go at \u003ca href=\"http://layoffs.fyi/tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layoffs.fyi\u003c/a>, a tracker set up by \u003ca class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https://crunchbase.com/person/roger-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"person\" data-entity=\"roger-lee\">Roger Lee, \u003c/a> the co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://humaninterest.com/homepage/?utm_source=GOOGLEPS&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=Brand%20-%20Human%20Interest%20Desktop&utm_content=417770811266&utm_term=human%20interest_p&utm_gclidid=EAIaIQobChMI7_T5ruSY6QIVB8NkCh1PHw7REAAYASAAEgL6NPD_BwE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7_T5ruSY6QIVB8NkCh1PHw7REAAYASAAEgL6NPD_BwE\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Human Interest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a company that helps other companies set up retirement accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2138px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM.png\" alt=\"In the market for a job in Silicon Valley? You might have better luck at a large company, compared to a start up, as this May 5, 2020 screen shot from Layoffs.fyi indicates.\" width=\"2138\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM.png 2138w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-160x85.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-800x425.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-1020x542.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-1920x1020.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2138px) 100vw, 2138px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the market for a job in Silicon Valley? You might have better luck at a large company, compared to a startup, as this May 5, 2020 screen shot from Layoffs.fyi indicates. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deng is confident about her prospects even as she’s sober about the need for the economy to take a hit to protect those most vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a grandma who’s 97 this year and I would be heartbroken if she was exposed and had any complications due to [COVID-19]. My fiance also has a vulnerable immune system. So I understand why we’re staying home. But on the flip side, you know, as I’m job hunting, good companies that might have had positions that I wanted to apply to that are on hold,” Deng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This Port in a Storm Might Not Last\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Skeptics worry that what we’re witnessing in Silicon Valley is a temporary uptick before bad times settle in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It certainly seems like an odd time to try purposely to hire new people. Why? Why not just wait?” asked Rachel Massaro, who directs research at the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies at \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/news-and-media/news-releases/1949-silicon-valley-unemployment-increased-to-3-1-in-earliest-response-to-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the institute, Silicon Valley’s preliminary March unemployment rate of 3.1% represented a sharp increase over February’s rate, but it’s still significantly lower than in the summer of 2009, when unemployment peaked at 10.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s possible a lot of these data points, a lot of the indicators that we’re looking at, will have a lag time,” Massaro said. “In a few months, we’ll get a better understanding of the influence of the crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, those Silicon Valley companies on the downswing — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11816330/airbnb-laying-off-25-of-its-workforce-due-to-travel-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Airbnb\u003c/a>, Eventbrite, Lyft and the like — are taking a hit because what they do is directly impacted by the pandemic. But as the economy as a whole sinks into recession, the current winners in Silicon Valley may not be able to sail above the fray for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is not a monolith,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsce.com/Steve_Levy.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Levy\u003c/a>, director and senior economist of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto. “The group of people who are hiring is fairly narrow, and in some cases, short term.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest unemployment data\u003c/a> show the national job market — and California’s, for that matter — in the toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Silicon Valley, the job market isn’t quite so grim — not just despite the coronavirus pandemic, but perhaps because of it. Even as the rest of the economy tanks, these are reasonably good days to be hunting for a mid-level white collar job in web development or tech support. Think about it: We’re all online more than ever. We’re shopping on Amazon, watching live concerts on Facebook, storing ever more photos on Apple’s iCloud, and \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/trends/story/US_cu_4Rjdh3ABAABMHM_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">searching\u003c/a> for baking recipes on Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/?results_per_page=5&offices%5B0%5D=Fremont%2C%20CA&offices%5B1%5D=Los%20Angeles%2C%20CA&offices%5B2%5D=Menlo%20Park%2C%20CA&offices%5B3%5D=Mountain%20View%2C%20CA&offices%5B4%5D=Northridge%2C%20CA&offices%5B5%5D=San%20Francisco%2C%20CA&offices%5B6%5D=Santa%20Clara%2C%20CA&offices%5B7%5D=Sausalito%2C%20CA&offices%5B8%5D=Sunnyvale%2C%20CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://careers.microsoft.com/professionals/us/en/l-bayarea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?location=united-states-USA+california-state953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?base_query=&loc_query=California&type=area&latitude=38.57944&longitude=-121.49085®ion=California&country=USA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?company=Google&company=Google%20Fiber&company=YouTube&employment_type=FULL_TIME&hl=en_US&jlo=en_US&location=California,%20USA&q=&sort_by=relevance&src=Online%2FHouse%20Ads%2FBKWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alphabet\u003c/a> make up nearly \u003ca href=\"https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nasdaq-composite-erases-2020-losses-strong-tech-earnings-stock-market-2020-4-1029178443\">40% of the market value\u003c/a> of the Nasdaq. Sure enough, all five tech titans are hiring by the hundreds, if not the thousands, in California alone. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently told CNBC that the Menlo Park-based social media giant plans to hire \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/02/sandberg-facebook-to-add-10000-new-workers-by-end-of-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10,000 people\u003c/a> this year in product and engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Size Matters Now\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Experts say this particular economic downturn is favoring giants with the cash reserves to wait out a temporary revenue drop or who can pivot to expand in markets with more potential for profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1056px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816241\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM.png\" alt=\"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, interviewed Stanford vaccine expert Dr. Bonnie Maldonado on Facebook Live on May 1, 2020. The event was not a riveting plug for the video streaming service but more than 35,000 people did try to watch.\" width=\"1056\" height=\"1030\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM.png 1056w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-160x156.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-800x780.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-1020x995.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, interviewed Stanford vaccine expert Dr. Bonnie Maldonado on Facebook Live on May 1, 2020. The event was not a riveting plug for the video streaming service, but more than 35,000 people did try to watch. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, the online video market, which is exploding right now thanks to the pandemic. Facebook’s offerings in the market include Livestream, Messenger, and most recently, Messenger Rooms, which allows up to 50 people to chat at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft declined to comment for this story, but on LinkedIn, which the Seattle software giant owns, Microsoft listed nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?keywords=Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">300,000 jobs\u003c/a> worldwide at the time of this article’s publication.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.jobs/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon\u003c/a> has hired 175,000 people in its fulfillment and delivery network just since March, but the media focus on its retail and warehouse operations often obscures the fact that the Seattle-based company also employs armies of software developers, technical project managers and the like. Amazon is looking for more than 3,000 people in California alone currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the biggest names in Silicon Valley, medium-sized tech employers are also looking to hire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we have not increased our hiring in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, now more than ever, we remain committed to attracting top talent across key areas of our business,” wrote a spokeswoman for Genentech, the South San Francisco drugmaker owned by Roche. “So far this year, we have filled more than 1,600 positions and currently have over \u003ca href=\"https://www.gene.com/careers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1,200 roles open\u003c/a> across many areas of our business, including research and development, manufacturing, sales and marketing and IT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a spokesman for \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.vmware.com/careers/2020/04/message-from-vmware-vp-of-talent-acquisition-on-hiring-and-supporting-our-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VMware\u003c/a>, the Palo Alto-based software company has more than 300 openings in California and more than 1,400 globally. VMware’s vice president of talent acquisition \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.vmware.com/careers/2020/04/message-from-vmware-vp-of-talent-acquisition-on-hiring-and-supporting-our-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote recently\u003c/a>, “Our hiring efforts are focused on supporting VMware’s five strategic priorities: App Modernization, Multi-Cloud, Virtual Cloud Network, Digital Workspace and Intrinsic Security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara-based \u003ca href=\"https://jobs.intel.com/ListJobs/All\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intel\u003c/a> has posted more than 700 jobs on its website, more than 70 of which are based here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It’s Not All Full-time or Stable Work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, Silicon Valley’s biggest employers have hedged their hiring bets by splitting payroll between full-time employees and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741371/two-tiered-caste-system-the-world-of-white-collar-contracting-in-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contractors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2029px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Shirley Deng of Hayward is in the market for a marketing job in Silicon Valley. She's getting call backs, but says she'd have an easier time of it if she was looking for a position on the techier side of tech.\" width=\"2029\" height=\"1108\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM.jpeg 2029w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-160x87.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-800x437.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-1020x557.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-1920x1048.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2029px) 100vw, 2029px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Deng of Hayward is in the market for a marketing job in Silicon Valley. She’s getting call backs, but says she’d have an easier time of it if she was looking for a position on the techier side of tech. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are the top five hiring categories in the Bay Area over the past eight weeks on Santa Clara-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.upwork.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Upwork\u003c/a>, an employment platform for white collar gig work which posts more than 8,000 freelance jobs a day worldwide:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Web Development\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video Production\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Graphics and Design\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Web and Mobile Design\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Technical Support\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing a lot of activity around web development, around video production. Technical support is a big one. So there’s a lot of activity where, you know, people are young trying to deploy, install and maintain technical systems for their business,” said Hayden Brown, Upwork’s president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown adds that, in 2020, it doesn’t make sense to draw an arbitrary line between Silicon Valley and the rest of the economy when it comes to tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increasingly, almost every company is becoming something of a digital business,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of that said, your employment security depends in large part on the stability of the company you work for, as the pandemic appears to be most lethal to companies that were struggling before the onset of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Deng was laid off in April, when the Palo Alto-based, no-fee payday lender startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.earnin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earnin\u003c/a> gutted its marketing department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stable is like a relative term,” Deng said ruefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Deng would prefer to work for a bigger company. She owns a house in Hayward with her fiance, and he’s still working, but paying the mortgage could become a concern in about six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of good companies that I might want to work for or envision myself with are holding off on hiring now. Like tech companies have hiring freezes unless it’s a very technical role, where it’s like engineering or developer,” Deng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers back up Deng’s assessment of the market. You can see who’s hiring and who’s letting people go at \u003ca href=\"http://layoffs.fyi/tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layoffs.fyi\u003c/a>, a tracker set up by \u003ca class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https://crunchbase.com/person/roger-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"person\" data-entity=\"roger-lee\">Roger Lee, \u003c/a> the co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://humaninterest.com/homepage/?utm_source=GOOGLEPS&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=Brand%20-%20Human%20Interest%20Desktop&utm_content=417770811266&utm_term=human%20interest_p&utm_gclidid=EAIaIQobChMI7_T5ruSY6QIVB8NkCh1PHw7REAAYASAAEgL6NPD_BwE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7_T5ruSY6QIVB8NkCh1PHw7REAAYASAAEgL6NPD_BwE\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Human Interest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a company that helps other companies set up retirement accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2138px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM.png\" alt=\"In the market for a job in Silicon Valley? You might have better luck at a large company, compared to a start up, as this May 5, 2020 screen shot from Layoffs.fyi indicates.\" width=\"2138\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM.png 2138w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-160x85.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-800x425.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-1020x542.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-1920x1020.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2138px) 100vw, 2138px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the market for a job in Silicon Valley? You might have better luck at a large company, compared to a startup, as this May 5, 2020 screen shot from Layoffs.fyi indicates. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deng is confident about her prospects even as she’s sober about the need for the economy to take a hit to protect those most vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a grandma who’s 97 this year and I would be heartbroken if she was exposed and had any complications due to [COVID-19]. My fiance also has a vulnerable immune system. So I understand why we’re staying home. But on the flip side, you know, as I’m job hunting, good companies that might have had positions that I wanted to apply to that are on hold,” Deng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This Port in a Storm Might Not Last\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Skeptics worry that what we’re witnessing in Silicon Valley is a temporary uptick before bad times settle in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It certainly seems like an odd time to try purposely to hire new people. Why? 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"content": "\u003cp>California businesses have received $66.6 billion in federal Paycheck Protection Program loans so far, about 13% of the nation’s total, according to federal loan data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state’s businesses didn’t receive a proportional share of the federal money in the first round, but that it is now “punching above its weight” in the second round, so it’s starting to balance out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal loan program is administered by the Small Business Administration to help cover payroll and expenses during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses and nonprofits with up to 500 employees are eligible for loans up to 2.5 times their monthly payroll, with a maximum of $10 million, to spend on wages, rent and utilities for eight weeks. If the business can show it spent the money on allowable expenditures, the loan will be forgiven. (\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/inside-calmatters/2020/05/why-we-applied-for-a-loan/\">CalMatters\u003c/a> applied for and received a $535,000 PPP loan.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California businesses received $33.4 billion in the first round of PPP funding, Newsom said, or less than 10% of the total disbursement. In the second round, which is only 60% complete, state businesses have already drawn $33.2 billion. That’s about 11% of PPP loans nationwide, and 13% of the money distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state so far has received more loans than any other state in the second round, and the 320,000 California businesses that got them made up 19% of all second-round recipients. The next-closest state, New York, received 164,000 loans for a total of $17 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first round of dollars, Californians did not fare as well as we should have in terms of the percentage of the loans we were able to draw down and the amount of dollars we were able to draw down,” Newsom said during a visit to a Sacramento gift shop. “We are doing much better in this second round.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism of the program has centered on how unevenly it’s being distributed among the states. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w27095.pdf\">a study published this month\u003c/a> by economic researchers at MIT and the University of Chicago, the Small Business Administration loans weren’t appropriately targeted to the states that needed it most. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find little evidence that funds were targeted towards geographic regions more severely affected by the pandemic,” the authors wrote. “If anything, preliminary evidence indicates that the opposite is true and funds were targeted towards areas less severely affected by the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find that PPP allocations across congressional districts are very weakly correlated to the impact of the epidemic crisis on labor markets and aggregate firm outcomes.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'The first round of dollars, Californians did not fare as well as we should have ... We are doing much better in this second round.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California by far has the nation’s largest economy, worth about 14.5% of the GDP in 2018, and 4.1 million Californians have applied for unemployment during the pandemic, according to numbers Newsom released Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the PPP’s first round of funding, \u003ca href=\"https://content.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/PPP%20Deck%20copy.pdf\">less-populous states did exceptionally well\u003c/a> compared to their unemployment numbers, while more-populous states languished. In mid-April, California had 2.8 million unemployment claims, or about 14% of all unemployment claims nationally, and received about 9.7% of PPP loans. South Dakota, by contrast, had about 0.1% of the nation’s unemployment claims in the same period, yet secured 0.4% of all PPP loans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program began distributing money in April and ran out in two weeks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"https://content.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/PPP%20Deck%20copy.pdf\">first round of funding\u003c/a>, the PPP distributed $342 billion to more than 1.6 million businesses, making the average loan about $206,000. 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Clothing outlets, bookstores, florists and other merchants across the state will be allowed to offer curbside pickup as long as they obey physical distancing guidelines. California companies that make clothing, furniture, toys and other goods those retailers sell can also resume operations, with appropriate worker protections. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to maintain the core construct of our stay-at-home orders,” Newsom said Tuesday, “make sure we are appropriately doing the social distancing and physical distancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had harsh words for officials in Yuba and Sutter counties, who on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://www.suttercounty.org/assets/pdf/2020-05-04_COVID-19_Limit_Activities_Order.pdf\">announced plans to reopen\u003c/a> restaurants, gyms, retailers, playgrounds and libraries, among other places where people congregate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re making a big mistake,” Newsom said. “They’re putting their public at risk. 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"content": "\u003cp>The contours of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on California’s state budget are coming into sharper focus: An updated projection estimates state general fund revenues will plunge by more than $41 billion from what was expected in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Finance released the updated fiscal forecast Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the projected budget deficit is even deeper after accounting for recent pandemic-related expenditures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $41.2 billion shortfall, combined with $7.1 billion in additional caseloads for health and safety programs and unanticipated expenditures of $6 billion mostly related to the COVID-19 response, signal an overall budget deficit of $54.3 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are dealing with the economic and revenue fallout of an unprecedented shutdown of the state’s economy that’s been caused by this pandemic,” Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer told KQED. He cited the dramatic drop in state revenues resulting from lost personal income taxes associated with business closures and record unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of those things are rippling through the economy. They’re going to be rippling through our state revenues,” Palmer said. “And they’re creating a substantial budget gap that we have to close between now and mid-June of more than $54 billion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State finance officials project roughly a quarter of that shortfall will occur in the current fiscal year, with the rest falling on Gov. 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The fund, created by voters in 2014, and prudently managed by former Gov. Jerry Brown, is now estimated to hold roughly $16 billion, which can be tapped within limits once the governor declares a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, those reserves will be cold comfort to those hardest hit by the downturn, who are disproportionately low- and middle-income Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]In his news briefing Wednesday, Newsom hinted at the magnitude of the problem, calling the numbers “jaw dropping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the fiscal forecast is likely to prompt inquiries; it comes just hours after Newsom’s administration\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-06/california-coronavirus-mask-price-byd-coronavirus\"> finally released details of a $1 billion contract\u003c/a> to buy safety masks from a Chinese electric car maker, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/05/california-mask-deal-blue-flame-collapsed-republican-vendor-maryland-porter-gula-thomas/\">raising serious questions\u003c/a> about the state’s COVID-19 expenditures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, Newsom said any details of his so-called “May Revise” of the state budget wouldn’t be released until next Thursday. Instead, the deficit forecast was released at 9:45 p.m. Wednesday night, just a few hours after releasing details of the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The imploding budget situation means Newsom will have to manage simultaneous crises, testing his ability to govern at a time when his popularity at home and national political stock had been rising as he and other governors filled a void left by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the bad news, in the way of rising unemployment and plunging revenues, is hardly over. Since shelter-in-place orders were issued in mid-March, shuttering much of the state’s economy, more than 4.2 million Californians have applied for unemployment benefits. Finance Department officials estimate unemployment levels will reach 18% statewide, up from just 3.9% earlier this year. By contrast, unemployment in California reached 12.2% at the height of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of such daunting numbers, Palmer said, California is waiting with bated breath for major federal financial assistance in the next round of relief legislation to continue providing core essential public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That said, there are clearly going to have to be difficult proposals and difficult decisions that are going to go on the table,” Palmer said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Spring has an expectant air to it. The weather is getting warmer, the flowers are in bloom, everything is still green. I savor this time as an adult, but as a student, spring meant so much more. It meant the end of the school year was approaching, and for seniors, it meant the start of a whole new phase of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus has made it a weird spring for everyone, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">young people may be feeling it more strongly\u003c/a>. Bay Area schools won’t be holding in-person classes for the rest of the school year, which means lots of seniors are finishing out their high school careers online. They aren’t going to prom, signing yearbooks, sharing the news of college acceptances with friends and teachers in person, or even walking across the graduation stage in front of their family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked four students at schools around the Bay Area to record regular audio updates about how they’ve been feeling and what they’ve been doing over the past eight weeks. This week’s Bay Curious episode is dedicated to their voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Taila Lee\u003c/h1>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43075_010_KQED_BayCurious_TailaLee_05042020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"High school senior Taila Lee holds her prom dress at her home in San Carlos on April 4, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43075_010_KQED_BayCurious_TailaLee_05042020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43075_010_KQED_BayCurious_TailaLee_05042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43075_010_KQED_BayCurious_TailaLee_05042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43075_010_KQED_BayCurious_TailaLee_05042020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school senior Taila Lee holds her prom dress at her home in San Carlos on April 4, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m Taila Lee. I’m a senior at Woodside High School. I’m still taking a lot of time to adjust to online learning. This is only day 3 and I already feel a little bit behind. I think I’m really missing the structure of the school day. I’m also really missing face-to-face instruction and that social interaction with teachers and classmates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Tuesday, March 31 and just about two hours ago I found out I’m not going back to school. We’re continuing online learning for the rest of the year, until June. And that means March 13 was the last day of my senior year. And I’m really sad. I’m not going to be able to go prom. I’m not going to sign yearbooks with my friends. I’m not going to hug people goodbye at graduation, take photos. My first semester of college might even be online, which is really crazy to think about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Qadir Scott\u003c/h1>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43093_010_KQED_BayCurious_QadirScott_05062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Qadir Scott, a senior at Oakland Tech, in Alameda on April 6, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43093_010_KQED_BayCurious_QadirScott_05062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43093_010_KQED_BayCurious_QadirScott_05062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43093_010_KQED_BayCurious_QadirScott_05062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43093_010_KQED_BayCurious_QadirScott_05062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qadir Scott, a senior at Oakland Tech, in Alameda on April 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is Qadir Scott. I’m a senior at Oakland Tech. A big thing with me, I listen to this band called \u003ca href=\"https://badbrains.com/\">Bad Brains\u003c/a>. Something they talk about is keeping that PMA. That’s positive mind and attitude. PMA. Control everything that you can control, you know. Everything else will kind of play out, but if you keep that positive attitude and mindset, you can achieve anything. That’s how I see it. That’s exactly how I’m thinking about it right now. Make the best out of it. The way I see it is like, class of 2020, the corona class, COVID-19. We’re part of a bigger moment in history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to Morehouse [College] in the fall. I’m excited about that. But we’re going to do online school, I’m pretty sure, for the first month or two. I don’t really know how to feel about that. It kinda sucks because you kinda want to just jump right into your college experience. But it might make it easier, who knows. I’m kinda just playing it by ear, again trying to keep a positive mind attitude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Genevieve Schweitzer\u003c/h1>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43080_005_KQED_BayCurious_GenevieveSchweitzer_05062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Genevieve Schweitzer, a junior in high school, plays the flute in her backyard on April 6, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43080_005_KQED_BayCurious_GenevieveSchweitzer_05062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43080_005_KQED_BayCurious_GenevieveSchweitzer_05062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43080_005_KQED_BayCurious_GenevieveSchweitzer_05062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43080_005_KQED_BayCurious_GenevieveSchweitzer_05062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genevieve Schweitzer, a junior in high school, plays the flute in her backyard on April 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My name is Genevieve Schweitzer. I’m a junior at El Cerrito High School and I’m doing fine. I just miss my friends and doing normal things. It’s day 8. I’m sitting on my bed, basically in the position I’ve been in all day. I’m just thinking about all the things that have been canceled. Like concerts and trips to Disneyland with my band that we were planning, and prom. I already have my prom dress and it’s just hanging in my closet looking sad. But there’s definitely worse things going on right now so I don’t feel like I can complain too much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just got back from the school. They opened it for one afternoon so we could come get our stuff from our lockers and check out textbooks and things like that. There was a security guard sitting out front with hand sanitizer and wipes and you had to tell them where you were going and why. I didn’t expect it to feel so sad to see the school so empty and to be back. I already had my last day as a junior in high school. And when I come back, I’m going to be a senior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Julisa Gomez Reyes\u003c/h1>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43096_003_KQED_BayCurious_Julisa_05062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Julisa Gomez Reyes, a high school junior, at her home in San Jose on April 6.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43096_003_KQED_BayCurious_Julisa_05062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43096_003_KQED_BayCurious_Julisa_05062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43096_003_KQED_BayCurious_Julisa_05062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43096_003_KQED_BayCurious_Julisa_05062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julisa Gomez Reyes, a high school junior, at her home in San Jose on April 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My name is Julisa Reyes Gomez. I’m a junior at Independence High School in San Jose. I miss school. I miss my friends. I miss my teachers. I miss the classroom. And this is something that I never thought I would be saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sleep schedule is really bad right now. The nights are where I’m awake and during the day I’m asleep. And I’m trying to fix that, especially with my family, we’re all doing it. My mom’s out of a job and we just don’t want to do anything because, I don’t know, we can’t go out and we’re usually a quiet family so it’s very difficult to get anything done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read and listen to more student perspectives as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">KQED’s Youth Takeover 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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They aren’t going to prom, signing yearbooks, sharing the news of college acceptances with friends and teachers in person, or even walking across the graduation stage in front of their family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked four students at schools around the Bay Area to record regular audio updates about how they’ve been feeling and what they’ve been doing over the past eight weeks. This week’s Bay Curious episode is dedicated to their voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Taila Lee\u003c/h1>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43075_010_KQED_BayCurious_TailaLee_05042020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"High school senior Taila Lee holds her prom dress at her home in San Carlos on April 4, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43075_010_KQED_BayCurious_TailaLee_05042020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43075_010_KQED_BayCurious_TailaLee_05042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43075_010_KQED_BayCurious_TailaLee_05042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43075_010_KQED_BayCurious_TailaLee_05042020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school senior Taila Lee holds her prom dress at her home in San Carlos on April 4, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m Taila Lee. I’m a senior at Woodside High School. I’m still taking a lot of time to adjust to online learning. This is only day 3 and I already feel a little bit behind. I think I’m really missing the structure of the school day. I’m also really missing face-to-face instruction and that social interaction with teachers and classmates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Tuesday, March 31 and just about two hours ago I found out I’m not going back to school. We’re continuing online learning for the rest of the year, until June. And that means March 13 was the last day of my senior year. And I’m really sad. I’m not going to be able to go prom. I’m not going to sign yearbooks with my friends. I’m not going to hug people goodbye at graduation, take photos. My first semester of college might even be online, which is really crazy to think about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Qadir Scott\u003c/h1>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43093_010_KQED_BayCurious_QadirScott_05062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Qadir Scott, a senior at Oakland Tech, in Alameda on April 6, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43093_010_KQED_BayCurious_QadirScott_05062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43093_010_KQED_BayCurious_QadirScott_05062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43093_010_KQED_BayCurious_QadirScott_05062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43093_010_KQED_BayCurious_QadirScott_05062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qadir Scott, a senior at Oakland Tech, in Alameda on April 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is Qadir Scott. I’m a senior at Oakland Tech. A big thing with me, I listen to this band called \u003ca href=\"https://badbrains.com/\">Bad Brains\u003c/a>. Something they talk about is keeping that PMA. That’s positive mind and attitude. PMA. Control everything that you can control, you know. Everything else will kind of play out, but if you keep that positive attitude and mindset, you can achieve anything. That’s how I see it. That’s exactly how I’m thinking about it right now. Make the best out of it. The way I see it is like, class of 2020, the corona class, COVID-19. We’re part of a bigger moment in history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to Morehouse [College] in the fall. I’m excited about that. But we’re going to do online school, I’m pretty sure, for the first month or two. I don’t really know how to feel about that. It kinda sucks because you kinda want to just jump right into your college experience. But it might make it easier, who knows. I’m kinda just playing it by ear, again trying to keep a positive mind attitude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Genevieve Schweitzer\u003c/h1>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43080_005_KQED_BayCurious_GenevieveSchweitzer_05062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Genevieve Schweitzer, a junior in high school, plays the flute in her backyard on April 6, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43080_005_KQED_BayCurious_GenevieveSchweitzer_05062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43080_005_KQED_BayCurious_GenevieveSchweitzer_05062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43080_005_KQED_BayCurious_GenevieveSchweitzer_05062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43080_005_KQED_BayCurious_GenevieveSchweitzer_05062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genevieve Schweitzer, a junior in high school, plays the flute in her backyard on April 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My name is Genevieve Schweitzer. I’m a junior at El Cerrito High School and I’m doing fine. I just miss my friends and doing normal things. It’s day 8. I’m sitting on my bed, basically in the position I’ve been in all day. I’m just thinking about all the things that have been canceled. Like concerts and trips to Disneyland with my band that we were planning, and prom. I already have my prom dress and it’s just hanging in my closet looking sad. But there’s definitely worse things going on right now so I don’t feel like I can complain too much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just got back from the school. They opened it for one afternoon so we could come get our stuff from our lockers and check out textbooks and things like that. There was a security guard sitting out front with hand sanitizer and wipes and you had to tell them where you were going and why. I didn’t expect it to feel so sad to see the school so empty and to be back. I already had my last day as a junior in high school. And when I come back, I’m going to be a senior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Julisa Gomez Reyes\u003c/h1>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43096_003_KQED_BayCurious_Julisa_05062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Julisa Gomez Reyes, a high school junior, at her home in San Jose on April 6.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43096_003_KQED_BayCurious_Julisa_05062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43096_003_KQED_BayCurious_Julisa_05062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43096_003_KQED_BayCurious_Julisa_05062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43096_003_KQED_BayCurious_Julisa_05062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julisa Gomez Reyes, a high school junior, at her home in San Jose on April 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My name is Julisa Reyes Gomez. I’m a junior at Independence High School in San Jose. I miss school. I miss my friends. I miss my teachers. I miss the classroom. And this is something that I never thought I would be saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sleep schedule is really bad right now. The nights are where I’m awake and during the day I’m asleep. And I’m trying to fix that, especially with my family, we’re all doing it. My mom’s out of a job and we just don’t want to do anything because, I don’t know, we can’t go out and we’re usually a quiet family so it’s very difficult to get anything done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read and listen to more student perspectives as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">KQED’s Youth Takeover 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 5:15 pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday that Carlos Escobar-Mejia died Wednesday at 2:15 a.m. at the Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, Calif. He was admitted to the hospital April 24 and tested positive for COVID-19 the same day, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They confirmed that his death was the first known coronavirus fatality of a person in ICE detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar-Mejia, 57, had been in ICE custody since Jan. 10, the agency said in a statement, adding that a medical screening showed he suffered from hypertension and that he told officials he was diabetic. An immigration judge had denied his release on bond April 15, deeming him a flight risk, ICE said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar-Mejia, originally from El Salvador, first came to the United States in 1980, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the statement, ICE reported that 181 immigrants held in detention at the Otay Mesa Detention Center have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since April 1, with 140 of them currently in ICE custody. As of Thursday, 753 detainees nationwide have been confirmed to have the virus, out of 1528 tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Otay Mesa facility stopped accepting new detainees on April 2, according to the ICE statement, and the total number of people held there has been reduced — from 996 on Feb. 29, to 629 as of May 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 57-year-old man held at an immigration detention facility in San Diego has died of COVID-19, immigrant advocates reported Wednesday. It is the first known coronavirus death among the roughly 30,000 people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials would not confirm the death, saying the agency’s policy is to announce detainee deaths within 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, identified as Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2020-05-06/first-ice-detainee-dies-from-covid-19-after-being-hospitalized-from-otay-mesa-detention-center\">by The San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c/a>, was originally from El Salvador and had been held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center for about four months. He had spent his last days in a hospital, where he died, according to Dulce Garcia, executive director of the advocacy group Border Angels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE set up a death trap and it was just a matter of time,” said Garcia, an attorney who represents immigrants detained at Otay Mesa. “We’ve known for weeks that they don’t have enough testing for everyone in there, and when you do test positive they put you into these cohorts with 100 other people. They should be releasing everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another San Diego immigration lawyer said a distraught client of his at Otay Mesa called him to say that guards had come to her pod Wednesday morning and told detainees that a man housed in another pod had died of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can feel in her voice how scared she is,” attorney Ian Seruelo said of his client, a Mexican asylum-seeker who is trying to get released from custody. “There is this atmosphere inside where everyone is scared of what’s going to happen. They’re living on the edge. They don’t know if they could be the next one to be infected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The death comes one week after a federal judge in San Diego \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusandiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2020-04-30-38-ORD-Granting-TRO.pdf\">ordered\u003c/a> ICE to immediately consider dozens of medically vulnerable people, including those 60 or older, for release from detention at Otay Mesa. As of Monday, just two individuals had been released.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ian Seruelo, immigration attorney\"]‘There is this atmosphere inside where everyone is scared of what’s going to happen. They’re living on the edge. They don’t know if they could be the next one to be infected.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his emergency order, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw called the conditions at the Otay Mesa facility unconstitutional, because they put detainees “at substantial risk of serious illness or death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order followed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusandiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2020-04-21-Class-Complaint-FINAL.pdf\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed by the ACLU of San Diego, calling for ICE and private prison operator CoreCivic to dramatically reduce the number of detainees at Otay Mesa. ACLU staff attorney Monika Langarica said Escobar Mejia should have been released as medically vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today one of those people has died because ICE refused to release him when he still had a chance to survive this deadly virus,” said Langarica in a statement Wednesday. “We continue to call on ICE and CoreCivic to act urgently and with humanity. This tragic news is even more evidence that failing to act will result in cruel and needless death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is one of numerous suits filed in federal courts around the country in recent weeks, urgently requesting ICE to protect detained immigrants by releasing them from custody and implementing stronger social distancing and hygiene measures for those who remain locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with ICE and CoreCivic did not respond to repeated requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Seruelo said his client should also be released, based on her heightened risk for complications of COVID-19. He said she had been treated for diabetes for years in Mexico but lacked documentation of her condition. He also said she had been tested for diabetes two weeks ago by ICE medical staff but was still waiting for the test results to be released to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11812701,news_11813475,news_11809081 label='Related Coverage']There are currently 132 ICE detainees and 10 ICE staff at Otay Mesa who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the agency. That’s more than triple the number of cases two weeks ago, and by far the largest outbreak at an ICE detention center. In addition, CoreCivic has reported at least nine of its employees with confirmed cases. And 54 federal prisoners held for the U.S. Marshals Service at the facility have also been diagnosed with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\">ICE reports\u003c/a> that it has tested 1,460 detained people for COVID-19 and 705 of those tests — almost half — have come back positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Kamala Harris, who last month joined with a dozen other Democratic senators \u003ca href=\"https://www.harris.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Harris%20Follow%20Up%20Letter%20re%20covid%20prep%20in%20DHS%20Facilities.pdf\">calling on ICE\u003c/a> to release vulnerable and low-risk detainees, decried Escobar Mejia’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tragically, this death was likely preventable,” Harris told KQED. “For months, I have called on the Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Prisons to act quickly to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at facilities like Otay Mesa Detention Center. It is imperative that officials take every step available to prevent more illness and loss.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is set to enact a homelessness solution it once thought unthinkable: city-sanctioned open-air encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, San Francisco police have ordered tents removed from city streets, even at times \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/shotwell-tents-destroyed-as-friends-mourn-homeless-man-shot-by-sfpd/\">slashing them with knives themselves\u003c/a>. Public Works employees have tossed the ever-ubiquitous nylon homes of desperate people into dump trucks on a weekly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, however, San Francisco will launch the first of five planned “Safe Sleeping Sites,” KQED News has confirmed, with the hope that unhoused people will be kept socially distant amid the COVID-19 pandemic in a controlled location, replete with services like showers and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tents, once an ultimate bogeyman of San Francisco’s government, will be revered as lifesaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first location was announced Wednesday by Mayor London Breed: an encampment of roughly 90 tents piled nearly on top of each other near the Asian Art Museum – on City Hall’s front doorstep – will be officially sanctioned and allowed to expand onto Fulton Street, between the museum and the Main Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe, healthy, social distance will finally come to Civic Center’s homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The second city-sanctioned safe sleeping site is already under operation by a local nonprofit, Mother Brown’s Dining Room in the Bayview, at a park known locally as MLK Park, on Third Street and Armstrong Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now it’s a rogue operation, but later this week the official OK from San Francisco City Hall will see services, showers and other resources blow in like a breeze under the sails of that existing effort, Gwendolyn Westbrook, Mother Brown’s executive director told KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wrap-around services are planned for all of the city-sanctioned sleeping sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went into the park and set up the tents,” said Westbrook, who had help from Bayview advocates Gloria Berry and Michelle Pierce. “The city left us alone, and now, as a matter of fact, they’re going to help us a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three other sites are now under various phases of negotiation to potentially become San Francisco’s next wave of safe sleeping sites, public documents and City Hall insiders confirmed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The former Temporary Transbay Terminal at Howard and Main streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Everett Middle School on Church Street\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A former McDonald’s restaurant on Haight and Stanyan streets near an entrance to Golden Gate Park\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1jjbKOIgxK7WIUAoDuTcW4FXVMbQgXMUM\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bayview Neighbors United\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mother Brown’s shelter, nestled on Jennings Street and Van Dyke Avenue in the Bayview, sees nearly 70 people sleeping in it nightly. Westbrook, the shelter’s proprietor, said homelessness has grown in the Bayview so precipitously that people sometimes sleep in Mother Brown’s dining room and hallways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the COVID-19 pandemic has required many San Francisco establishments to close, or maintain strict social distancing, and Mother Brown’s shelter was no different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gwendolyn Westbrook, director of Mother Brown's Dining Room in the Bayview\"]‘No one wants to die from this coronavirus. But if I had waited on the city, people out here might’ve been dead.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Westbrook and other women from the Bayview took matters into their own hands. They walked over to what locals call MLK Park – which on city documentation is called Bay View Park – and measured out the distance between plots themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A renegade camping site was born, from the community, serving the community, with roughly 60 souls sleeping there in tents for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came in early, they were all piled up in the [shelter’s] doorway … that wasn’t working for us,” Westbrook told KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she set up the open-air encampment without city approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wants to die from this coronavirus,” Westbrook said. “But if I had waited on the city, people out here might’ve been dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddie Tillman, 65, slipped his N95 respirator mask over and under his 49ers hat while sitting inside his blue tent on Tuesday. Tillman told KQED News that he is only a few years out of prison, where he was for “decades” after stealing cars in his troubled youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Tillman stands outside his tent at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground - also known as MLK Park - on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Tillman stands outside his tent at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground – also known as MLK Park – on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillman was raised in the Bayview – it is his home – but his extended family is largely dead or gone. He also said he doesn’t want to “burden” his adult children with his own life choices. So Tillman has been living on the streets, slowly withering away, he said. Then he found the MLK Park encampment. It not only saved him from COVID-19, he said, but from his darkest thoughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t say I was going to kill myself. But I didn’t want to live,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he says he feels upbeat once again and is better prepared to find a job. Work is also a concern for Tasha Swift, 33, who is sleeping in a tent with her boyfriend on the other side of MLK Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift is an Oakland native who was living with her sister in San Francisco’s Sunnydale neighborhood so the pair could support each other financially. The two parted ways amid some acrimony, and Swift found herself living in her car while still working daily shifts at Split Bread, a San Francisco restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tasha Swift sits inside her tent at the Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tasha Swift sits inside her tent at the Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In early March, Swift was only one tantalizing paycheck away from saving enough money with her boyfriend to go apartment hunting. The cramped confines of her car would be a dreary distant memory, her locked-up knees could heal. They saved every penny, cut every expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know all the things ‘normal’ people do to make themselves happy? I couldn’t do them. I didn’t even get one soda. No eating out. I cut everything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then COVID-19 hit. The Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place order was instituted March 17, and Split Bread furloughed its workers, at least, Swift still hopes, temporarily. She and her boyfriend reached into their savings to weather the financial storm, their housing dream dashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living in her car was “really scary, I don’t like it. You never know when someone will come up to your window and rob you.” But at MLK Park she’s safer. Now she feels ready to get back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a whole home, but it feels like it,” Swift said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, more San Francisco neighborhoods could become homes for other folks who’ve been sheltering in cars, doorways and tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Citywide Sites in the Works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three sites across San Francisco are in the works to become safe sleeping sites like MLK Park. While not locked down as moving forward – various entities are still negotiating these safe sleep sites – KQED News has confirmed they are under consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the furthest along in planning stages is the former site of the Temporary Transbay Terminal. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6883382-Safe-Sleeping-Site-License-Agmt-Temp-Terminal-4.html\">agreement\u003c/a> between the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which holds the lease to that parcel, and the City and County of San Francisco outlines the city’s right to operate it as a safe sleeping site. The document is dated April 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a neighborhood group represented by lobbyist Chris Gruwell has not formally announced opposition, sources close to the matter say it spells a threat to the Temporary Transbay Terminal safe sleep site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sitting on an open space in the Temporary Transbay Center is basically the same thing as being in a shelter,” said Gloria Li, a neighbor in South of Market who sits on the citizen advisory committee of the TJPA, and wrote to the agency to voice her concerns. “They’re sharing common space. It will be a train wreck for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents the South of Market neighborhood where the former Temporary Transbay Terminal resides, does not support the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we should bring people into hotel rooms,” Haney said. “That’s safer, more cost-effective and better for public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everett Middle School is another site in the works. After a non-binding resolution authored by Supervisor Rafael Mandelman called for safe sleeping sites, Mandelman called for Everett Middle School’s parking lot to be open to homeless folks sleeping there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These makeshift encampments lack adequate social distancing as well as access to hygiene and sanitation, creating a public health hazard for encampment occupants and neighbors,” Mandelman said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RafaelMandelman/status/1254884450330001408?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Sanchez, president of the San Francisco Board of Education, agrees. He crafted a resolution for the school board allowing the San Francisco Unified School District to enter into an agreement with the city to allow school property to be used for safe sleeping sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he emphasized that Everett was not yet a done deal, he did say the district is looking at only “one site” – Everett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does look like it will be a good site because of the growing number of people on the streets in that area,” he said, adding that ultimately it will need more outreach to neighbors and a vote by the Board of Education to enact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last site in the works is probably the least far along: a former McDonald’s site in the Haight neighborhood, near Golden Gate Park, on Haight and Stanyan streets. Supervisor Dean Preston has publicly touted the site, but did not respond to KQED News to speak about the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Camp Breed’ Echoes Loma Prieta Past\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At City Hall’s front door, just past its grand lawn, lies a homeless encampment of roughly 90 tents sitting nearly on top of one another, bunched together in a nearly textbook example of how not to socially distance safely amid a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That worries Kelley Cutler, a human rights organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness. San Francisco police have parked at the encampment, and barricades have gone up, keeping people sleeping in tents penned into a tight area next to the Asian Art Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re still being contained in these small areas so they can’t socially distance,” Cutler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A woman named Stephanie, who declined to give her last name, is from Daly City but went to high school in San Francisco. She had an apartment in San Francisco before falling into a drug habit and becoming homeless. She lives in the encampment near the Asian Art Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie wishes San Francisco would bring more services into the encampment. She spent time in a local hospital for a newly discovered diabetes diagnosis, and said navigating city services to get shelter is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had highs and lows. I’ve had five years of sobriety,” Stephanie said. Now, though, she wishes she could have “harm reduction services, support services, just easy access to vocational training,” so she can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Conrad, 29, from Pacifica, also struggles with a drug problem. His mother thinks he has housing, and he doesn’t want to tell her he’s homeless. He’s trying to help himself, but wishes the city could give him a leg up to stay safe from COVID-19 during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They won’t give the shelter. They won’t give us no hotel vouchers because not everybody here has a so-called chronic diagnosis,” he said. “You know, we’re just kind of stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Conrad at a tent encampment where he currently lives on Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Conrad at a tent encampment where he currently lives on Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without adequate staffing, Conrad said, the encampment is “dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps its most disturbing feature is a single bathroom for its 200 homeless dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred tents and just one porta-potty in it? The bathrooms are all the way filled up with, you know, remains. It’s just disgusting. Absolutely disgusting,” Conrad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the homeless community talking to Cutler have come up with a new name for the encampment Stephanie and Conrad live in, due to its proximity to City Hall: “Camp Breed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camp Breed is making it even more challenging to provide needed resources for people,” Cutler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That nickname is derived from “Camp Agnos,” the name given to a homeless encampment in front of City Hall that arose in 1989 after the Loma Prieta earthquake made San Francisco homeless shelters unlivable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11765010 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/homeless-1020x663.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing homeless camps also torpedoed Mayor Art Agnos’ second mayoral run, as his political opponents laid the burgeoning homeless problem at his feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Yogi Berra said famously, it’s deja vu all over again!” Agnos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnos likened the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on homeless people to what happened during his tenure, post-earthquake. Shelters were unavailable then, much as they are now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is struggling with a much bigger number of people than I had to deal with,” he added. So will “Camp Breed” also torpedo Breed’s political future? Agnos didn’t think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And touching on the fight between the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed – the former who wants the homeless to be housed in hotels, and the latter who is enacting safe sleeping sites while calling hotels for homeless unreasonable – Agnos was magnanimous to all involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are nuances between all their strategies, but they’re all working their asses off,” Agnos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco is set to enact a homelessness solution it once thought unthinkable: city-sanctioned open-air encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, San Francisco police have ordered tents removed from city streets, even at times \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/shotwell-tents-destroyed-as-friends-mourn-homeless-man-shot-by-sfpd/\">slashing them with knives themselves\u003c/a>. Public Works employees have tossed the ever-ubiquitous nylon homes of desperate people into dump trucks on a weekly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, however, San Francisco will launch the first of five planned “Safe Sleeping Sites,” KQED News has confirmed, with the hope that unhoused people will be kept socially distant amid the COVID-19 pandemic in a controlled location, replete with services like showers and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tents, once an ultimate bogeyman of San Francisco’s government, will be revered as lifesaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first location was announced Wednesday by Mayor London Breed: an encampment of roughly 90 tents piled nearly on top of each other near the Asian Art Museum – on City Hall’s front doorstep – will be officially sanctioned and allowed to expand onto Fulton Street, between the museum and the Main Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe, healthy, social distance will finally come to Civic Center’s homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. 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Westbrook, the shelter’s proprietor, said homelessness has grown in the Bayview so precipitously that people sometimes sleep in Mother Brown’s dining room and hallways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the COVID-19 pandemic has required many San Francisco establishments to close, or maintain strict social distancing, and Mother Brown’s shelter was no different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Westbrook and other women from the Bayview took matters into their own hands. They walked over to what locals call MLK Park – which on city documentation is called Bay View Park – and measured out the distance between plots themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A renegade camping site was born, from the community, serving the community, with roughly 60 souls sleeping there in tents for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came in early, they were all piled up in the [shelter’s] doorway … that wasn’t working for us,” Westbrook told KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she set up the open-air encampment without city approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wants to die from this coronavirus,” Westbrook said. “But if I had waited on the city, people out here might’ve been dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddie Tillman, 65, slipped his N95 respirator mask over and under his 49ers hat while sitting inside his blue tent on Tuesday. Tillman told KQED News that he is only a few years out of prison, where he was for “decades” after stealing cars in his troubled youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Tillman stands outside his tent at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground - also known as MLK Park - on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Tillman stands outside his tent at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground – also known as MLK Park – on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillman was raised in the Bayview – it is his home – but his extended family is largely dead or gone. He also said he doesn’t want to “burden” his adult children with his own life choices. So Tillman has been living on the streets, slowly withering away, he said. Then he found the MLK Park encampment. It not only saved him from COVID-19, he said, but from his darkest thoughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t say I was going to kill myself. But I didn’t want to live,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he says he feels upbeat once again and is better prepared to find a job. Work is also a concern for Tasha Swift, 33, who is sleeping in a tent with her boyfriend on the other side of MLK Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift is an Oakland native who was living with her sister in San Francisco’s Sunnydale neighborhood so the pair could support each other financially. The two parted ways amid some acrimony, and Swift found herself living in her car while still working daily shifts at Split Bread, a San Francisco restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tasha Swift sits inside her tent at the Bay View Park K.C. 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Jones Playground on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In early March, Swift was only one tantalizing paycheck away from saving enough money with her boyfriend to go apartment hunting. The cramped confines of her car would be a dreary distant memory, her locked-up knees could heal. They saved every penny, cut every expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know all the things ‘normal’ people do to make themselves happy? I couldn’t do them. I didn’t even get one soda. No eating out. I cut everything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then COVID-19 hit. The Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place order was instituted March 17, and Split Bread furloughed its workers, at least, Swift still hopes, temporarily. She and her boyfriend reached into their savings to weather the financial storm, their housing dream dashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living in her car was “really scary, I don’t like it. You never know when someone will come up to your window and rob you.” But at MLK Park she’s safer. Now she feels ready to get back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a whole home, but it feels like it,” Swift said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, more San Francisco neighborhoods could become homes for other folks who’ve been sheltering in cars, doorways and tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Citywide Sites in the Works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three sites across San Francisco are in the works to become safe sleeping sites like MLK Park. While not locked down as moving forward – various entities are still negotiating these safe sleep sites – KQED News has confirmed they are under consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the furthest along in planning stages is the former site of the Temporary Transbay Terminal. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Mark Sanchez, president of the San Francisco Board of Education, agrees. He crafted a resolution for the school board allowing the San Francisco Unified School District to enter into an agreement with the city to allow school property to be used for safe sleeping sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he emphasized that Everett was not yet a done deal, he did say the district is looking at only “one site” – Everett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does look like it will be a good site because of the growing number of people on the streets in that area,” he said, adding that ultimately it will need more outreach to neighbors and a vote by the Board of Education to enact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last site in the works is probably the least far along: a former McDonald’s site in the Haight neighborhood, near Golden Gate Park, on Haight and Stanyan streets. Supervisor Dean Preston has publicly touted the site, but did not respond to KQED News to speak about the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Camp Breed’ Echoes Loma Prieta Past\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At City Hall’s front door, just past its grand lawn, lies a homeless encampment of roughly 90 tents sitting nearly on top of one another, bunched together in a nearly textbook example of how not to socially distance safely amid a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That worries Kelley Cutler, a human rights organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness. San Francisco police have parked at the encampment, and barricades have gone up, keeping people sleeping in tents penned into a tight area next to the Asian Art Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re still being contained in these small areas so they can’t socially distance,” Cutler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A woman named Stephanie, who declined to give her last name, is from Daly City but went to high school in San Francisco. She had an apartment in San Francisco before falling into a drug habit and becoming homeless. She lives in the encampment near the Asian Art Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie wishes San Francisco would bring more services into the encampment. She spent time in a local hospital for a newly discovered diabetes diagnosis, and said navigating city services to get shelter is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had highs and lows. I’ve had five years of sobriety,” Stephanie said. Now, though, she wishes she could have “harm reduction services, support services, just easy access to vocational training,” so she can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Conrad, 29, from Pacifica, also struggles with a drug problem. His mother thinks he has housing, and he doesn’t want to tell her he’s homeless. He’s trying to help himself, but wishes the city could give him a leg up to stay safe from COVID-19 during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They won’t give the shelter. They won’t give us no hotel vouchers because not everybody here has a so-called chronic diagnosis,” he said. “You know, we’re just kind of stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Conrad at a tent encampment where he currently lives on Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Conrad at a tent encampment where he currently lives on Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without adequate staffing, Conrad said, the encampment is “dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps its most disturbing feature is a single bathroom for its 200 homeless dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred tents and just one porta-potty in it? 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The coronavirus has posed unforeseen challenges — both for him and the many people he knows who are still behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been dealing with problems with getting my Social Security card, my California’s driver’s license and ID as well,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mostly, Puckett said he’s concerned for the safety of people who are still on the inside, including his son, who’s been quarantined in county jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeremy Puckett\"]‘I’d much rather be out here dealing with this situation than dealing with it in there.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quarantine was a precautionary measure after his son’s cellmate came down with a fever, but Puckett is worried because he hasn’t heard from him in more than a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puckett said he keeps in touch with friends still in prison, some of whom have shared a variety of concerns — from losing access to law libraries that are critical to incarcerated people fighting their own court cases, to seeing some guards not wearing masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re incarcerated, you’re basically sitting in a box,” Puckett said. “There’s only so much you can do, so you know, you’re more worried about what’s coming in than what’s going out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/03/19/this-chart-shows-why-the-prison-population-is-so-vulnerable-to-covid-19\">particularly vulnerable during this pandemic\u003c/a>, and new safety measures have also limited the support they’re able to receive. 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You can find identification information for an incarcerated person who needs money and \u003ca href=\"https://web.connectnetwork.com/deposit-money-inmate-commissary/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxtbIup-v6AIVjSCtBh1ecgDXEAAYASABEgLwj_D_BwE\">send it directly\u003c/a> to that person’s account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"3\">\u003c/a>Help People Post Bail\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Community bail funds allow people to pay their bail and await trial at home, thus reducing jail populations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory\">Here is a national directory\u003c/a> of bail funds within the criminal or immigration detention systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"4\">\u003c/a>Donate to Organizations Helping Incarcerated Individuals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some community organizations have created funds to provide personal protective equipment and hygiene supplies to incarcerated people in jails and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations that support incarcerated people continue to do critical work, even though many of their efforts are currently hindered by health and safety precautions. Here are some local organizations that are continuing to provide support and resources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support the \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org\">Northern California Innocence Project\u003c/a> by donating toward a variety of efforts that continue through the pandemic, including case work and client support, policy reform and virtual classroom and curriculum development. \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org/how-to-help-while-we-shelter-in-place/\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org\">Restore Justice\u003c/a> is accepting donations to purchase N95 masks for incarcerated people and staff at prisons. \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/donate-for-covid-19/\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Science Policy Group at UCSF is currently working \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813091/hand-sanitizer-for-the-people-the-allyship-of-an-actor-and-phd-student\">on a mutual aid project\u003c/a> to distribute hand sanitizer to vulnerable populations in the Bay Area, including people who are incarcerated. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/gqgve-hand-sanitizer-for-vulnerable-groups-amid-covid19?\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonlit.org\">Prisoners Literature Project\u003c/a> is currently unable to send books, for the most part, but you can still buy books through their Amazon wish list for when operations resume. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/PLPwishlist\">Find it here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.insightprisonproject.org\">Insight Prison Project\u003c/a>, based in San Rafael, offers programs for prisoners and parolees. \u003ca href=\"https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/insightprisonproject\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>Send a Message of Encouragement\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since health and safety precautions have limited the visitors who can come into prisons and jails, incarcerated people are now even further isolated from family, friends and volunteers. Puckett and Lori Stone, a spokesperson for the Northern California Innocence Project, said receiving mail can go a long way in helping to lift incarcerated people’s spirits, especially now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that writing is really awesome because, you know, everybody out here is in lockdown in the communities, but the prisons are in lockdown as well,” Stone said. “There are a lot of folks that are kind of on their own inside the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To send a letter, you have to know the name and ID number of an incarcerated person. 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In the California state prison system, for instance, all visitors, volunteers and rehabilitative program providers have been suspended since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Puckett, the timing of his release has been bittersweet, but he’s grateful to be able to spend extra time with his sister and daughter at their home in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s good and it’s bad, so I take it as it is,” he said. “But I’d much rather be out here dealing with this situation than dealing with it in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puckett said there are ways to make a positive impact in the lives of incarcerated people despite safety restrictions, such as writing to them or donating to organizations that are continuing to do critical work, like the\u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org\"> Innocence Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a list of ways you can help incarcerated people during the pandemic:\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#2\">Give Money Directly\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#3\">Help People Post Bail\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#4\">Donate to Organizations Helping Incarcerated Individuals\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#5\">Send a Message of Encouragement\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#6\">Support Those Coming Out of Jail or Prison\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/?ref=nav\">The Marshall Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit news organization focused on criminal justice, created \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/05/covid-19-a-survival-guide-for-incarcerated-people\">a survival guide for incarcerated people \u003c/a>that gives advice for how they can protect themselves while in jail or prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"2\">\u003c/a>Give Money Directly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/?fbclid=IwAR3jbwbIfcugrMIhkT_xMFaeupszlAlZVxbF75wIuugS6hNAPOHW4oOhHOA\">Restore Justice\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization for criminal justice reform, organized \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/823371021475580/about/\">a Facebook group\u003c/a> to help people find incarcerated individuals who need money for commissary items such as food, or hygiene products like soap and toothpaste. You can find identification information for an incarcerated person who needs money and \u003ca href=\"https://web.connectnetwork.com/deposit-money-inmate-commissary/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxtbIup-v6AIVjSCtBh1ecgDXEAAYASABEgLwj_D_BwE\">send it directly\u003c/a> to that person’s account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"3\">\u003c/a>Help People Post Bail\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Community bail funds allow people to pay their bail and await trial at home, thus reducing jail populations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory\">Here is a national directory\u003c/a> of bail funds within the criminal or immigration detention systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"4\">\u003c/a>Donate to Organizations Helping Incarcerated Individuals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some community organizations have created funds to provide personal protective equipment and hygiene supplies to incarcerated people in jails and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations that support incarcerated people continue to do critical work, even though many of their efforts are currently hindered by health and safety precautions. 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