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They’re spraying pepper spray into the cells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, she says, “They’re taking people out of the cells in handcuffs,” and then begins to shriek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic, the private prison operator that runs Otay Mesa under contract with ICE, denied that staff used force, and said in a statement, “regarding the pepper spray claim, those allegations are patently false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temporary removal of three detainees from one of the pods was in direct response to their being disruptive during the issuance of the face masks,” wrote Amanda Gilchrist, CoreCivic’s public affairs director. “At no time was any force used to remove these individuals, and they were returned to the pod a short while later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilchrist added that no signed waiver will be required to receive a mask, and that all detainees have been issued face masks. 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How will they ever get out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said her client has family in the U.S. with a home where he would be able to isolate himself upon his release. For now, she said, he is stuck in a unit with about 100 men sleeping in eight-person bunk rooms, eating together and sharing bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s afraid he’s going to die there,” said Garcia. “He’s desperate. He doesn’t know how to distance himself and he’s afraid everyone is going to give it to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic confirmed that housing pods at Otay Mesa with positive cases are under quarantine, and said “high-medical-risk detainees” are being separated. Gilchrist, the company spokeswoman, referred KQED to ICE for further comment, but they agency did not respond by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has reduced the number of people in custody nationally, from more than 38,000 three weeks ago to a total of just over 32,000 as of Saturday. 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Courts have made similar rulings in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, and other cases are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some elected officials — including Harris and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra — are \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/4.13.20%20-%20Letter%20to%20DHS%20Acting%20Secretary.pdf\">asking ICE\u003c/a> to go further and release detainees who pose no threat to public safety. And this week, Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Washington, \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/MDM20356.pdf\">introduced a bill \u003c/a>to move most inmates out of ICE detention and suspend most immigration enforcement during the current pandemic and future public health emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in ICE custody are not serving criminal sentences; they are being held in administrative detention while awaiting hearings in immigration court. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was Jamie Bagley’s first apartment without roommates: a newly refurbished one-bedroom in downtown Oakland with sunlight streaming into the living room and a patio for her collection of outdoor plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $2,195 per month, the veteran hairdresser felt like years of hard work were finally paying off. She moved in on February 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the coronavirus, and, one by one, clients canceled appointments. Her income dried up. Now, Bagley, 42, is worried she may have to leave the apartment she worked so hard to rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed like I had just landed, that I finally had just come to this point in life where I was starting to get ahead,” Bagley said. “Now when I look into the future, it looks like I might have some hard decisions to make.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bagley is one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809833/stressed-about-paying-your-april-rent-check-here-first\">thousands of Californians who didn’t pay rent this month\u003c/a> — a number that’s only expected to grow the longer workers are ordered to stay home. She and fellow renters are safe for now: On April 6, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811012/california-court-leaders-suspend-evictions-amid-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state Judicial Council suspended new eviction filings\u003c/a> for 90 days after the state of emergency is lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a decision that tipped the balance of power in favor of tenants, according to attorneys who represent both landlords and renters, and one that property law experts and activists say could have major ripple effects across California’s housing market for months, if not years, to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be a landlords’ market, but now it’s a renters’ market,” said Gustavo Lopez, a realtor and property manager for a dozen rentals in the San Francisco Bay Area. “Nobody saw this coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant rights attorney Joseph Tobener said he’s been getting about 100 calls a week from people who’ve lost their jobs and won’t be able to pay rent. [aside postID=\"news_11810140\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobener said the big shift came after the Judicial Council’s decision to halt eviction proceedings statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lightbulb went off,” Tobener said. “I was like, ‘are you kidding me? What are people supposed to do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Power to the Tenants\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tobener’s firm, Tobener Ravenscroft LLP, is recommending tenants negotiate a rent deferment plan — even rent forgiveness — during the health emergency. The firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.tobenerlaw.com/cant-afford-rent-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently published a legal toolkit\u003c/a> for tenants who have been financially burdened because of COVID-19, which also advises tenants with no other options to stop paying rent and refuse to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobener predicts tenants likely won’t see an eviction judgement until sometime in 2021, because even when the courts do open, there will be a huge backlog of cases and the potential limitations of holding jury trials.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joseph Tobener, Tenant rights attorney\"]‘It’s a real mess… It’s like the perfect shitstorm with the courts being closed.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a real mess,” Tobener said. “It’s like the perfect shitstorm with the courts being closed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Woo, a San Francisco-based property attorney who represents landlords with Cooper White & Cooper LLP, also sees a backlog of cases in the courts’ future, and said that means time is now on the tenants’ side. The Judicial Council’s decision was just one more in a bevy of tenant protections cities and counties had already approved, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this order has done is, it has shifted the whole timing to at least 120 days longer,” Woo said, “and that is to the advantage of the tenant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evictions were one way to get tenants to negotiate a payment plan if they were not making rent, Woo said. But rent will be due eventually, and Woo is advising clients to work out a deal with their tenants to pay some rent now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some property management companies, however, have tried more aggressive tactics to get their tenants to pay. Greg August, of San Francisco, was laid off in March from his job as a hotel convention waiter and bartender. He’s applied for unemployment but still hasn’t received a payment yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property managers for Normandy Apartments in San Francisco, where August lives, slipped a letter under the door asking for a phone number for tenants’ employers to verify they are unemployed. They also requested a statement, under penalty of perjury, declaring the tenant does not have sufficient savings to cover rent. Attorneys for tenants say that it’s illegal to request those items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August said the letter made him really nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like getting up in the morning,” he said. “I’m afraid there will be a knock on my door demanding I pay, and I’m worried about someone approaching me in the laundry room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Kimmel, one of the property managers for Normandy Apartments, said they’ve since agreed to only ask tenants for a letter from their employers stating their hours were reduced or that they were laid off. Then, like many other property managers, he’ll try to work out a payment plan when the tenants can go back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all in the same boat here,” Kimmel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Striking a Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/many-americans-couldnt-pay-april-rent/\">A recent survey by Apartment List\u003c/a> of nearly 1,000 California residents found nearly 11 percent of tenants were unable to pay any rent in April. Another 14 percent of renters could only make a partial payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s pretty consistent with what Bill Rosetti, the CEO of J & R Associates, an Oakland-based property management firm, said he’s seeing, with about 10 percent of the tenants in the 700 or 800 units his company owns unable to pay rent this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosetti is offering his tenants a 60-day deferral on rent and is using that time to figure out a payment plan. A five-decade veteran of the industry, Rosetti has seen recessions come and go. But he’s never experienced anything like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is way worse,” he said, “because in other cycles, it’s just a small percentage of people — 5 or 10 percent of tenants who can’t pay — but in this circumstance, every one of our tenants is impacted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He expects 30 percent of his tenants won’t be able to pay come June if the shelter in place continues, which will make it difficult to keep up with maintenance on the buildings and seismic retrofit work he had planned to do this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burden falls especially hard on small landlords who have just a few properties they rent out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Kim and his wife purchased a four-unit apartment building in Oakland’s Eastmont neighborhood last year. Most of the tenants use Section 8 vouchers to subsidize their rents, Kim said. And two of them couldn’t make payments this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim said he has no plans to evict his tenants. But he doesn’t know how long he can cover his mortgage without their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can do maybe six months, and then we’ll be forced to sell the building,” he said, adding that the time frame includes getting his bank to agree to a forbearance on the mortgage and taking out loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I don’t pay for April, May and June, my bank won’t charge interest, but come July, I have to pay in full,” he said. “And if I don’t pay anything until then, I will have a really big bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Ripple Effects\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If property owners can’t pay their mortgages or maintain their properties, a housing disaster could be looming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just renters that get hurt by this,” said Carol Galante, faculty director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and the former federal housing commissioner during the Obama administration. “I think people really don’t understand how much of the rent goes to covering the basics of owning and running a building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a worst case scenario, Galante said that if landlords start missing their payments, we could see an extended drop in rents and home values. On top of that, a spike in unemployment and an uncertain economic forecast could spell bad news for the housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want to see a dramatic distressed market,” Galante said. “That’s not good for anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as landlords are feeling uncertain about being able to pay their mortgages, electricity bills and maintenance, tenants are uncertain when they will go back to work — or even if they will go back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Bagley always thought hairdressing was a recession-proof profession. Even during the Great Depression, some people were getting their hair done, she said. Now, she’s not sure when she’ll be allowed to go back to work or what the economy will look like when she does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she doesn’t want to use the little savings she has on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel better hanging on to what I have,” Bagley said, acknowledging that landlords are in a tough spot, too. “I feel like there has to be some sort of debt forgiveness here, otherwise everyone is going to end up in a really bad place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources for Tenants\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>KQED’s collection of resources for renters, with a breakdown by county are available \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809833/stressed-about-paying-your-april-rent-check-here-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For additional assistance with bills see KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812172/how-to-navigate-bills-right-now-from-student-loans-to-phone-plans#4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Navigate Bills Right Now, From Student Loans to Phone Plans. \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.mynd.co/situation-room/tenant/coronavirus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collection of resources\u003c/a> on COVID-19 for renters and residents compiled by Mynd Property Management.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R9y8KLbU-oZTJheoqobmqg6TJxkwSjTkJvm6WywHURk/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area Mass Resource List\u003c/a> is a continuously updated document with additional housing and health information.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was Jamie Bagley’s first apartment without roommates: a newly refurbished one-bedroom in downtown Oakland with sunlight streaming into the living room and a patio for her collection of outdoor plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $2,195 per month, the veteran hairdresser felt like years of hard work were finally paying off. She moved in on February 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the coronavirus, and, one by one, clients canceled appointments. Her income dried up. Now, Bagley, 42, is worried she may have to leave the apartment she worked so hard to rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed like I had just landed, that I finally had just come to this point in life where I was starting to get ahead,” Bagley said. “Now when I look into the future, it looks like I might have some hard decisions to make.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bagley is one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809833/stressed-about-paying-your-april-rent-check-here-first\">thousands of Californians who didn’t pay rent this month\u003c/a> — a number that’s only expected to grow the longer workers are ordered to stay home. She and fellow renters are safe for now: On April 6, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811012/california-court-leaders-suspend-evictions-amid-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state Judicial Council suspended new eviction filings\u003c/a> for 90 days after the state of emergency is lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But rent will be due eventually, and Woo is advising clients to work out a deal with their tenants to pay some rent now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some property management companies, however, have tried more aggressive tactics to get their tenants to pay. Greg August, of San Francisco, was laid off in March from his job as a hotel convention waiter and bartender. He’s applied for unemployment but still hasn’t received a payment yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property managers for Normandy Apartments in San Francisco, where August lives, slipped a letter under the door asking for a phone number for tenants’ employers to verify they are unemployed. They also requested a statement, under penalty of perjury, declaring the tenant does not have sufficient savings to cover rent. Attorneys for tenants say that it’s illegal to request those items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August said the letter made him really nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like getting up in the morning,” he said. “I’m afraid there will be a knock on my door demanding I pay, and I’m worried about someone approaching me in the laundry room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Kimmel, one of the property managers for Normandy Apartments, said they’ve since agreed to only ask tenants for a letter from their employers stating their hours were reduced or that they were laid off. Then, like many other property managers, he’ll try to work out a payment plan when the tenants can go back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all in the same boat here,” Kimmel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Striking a Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/many-americans-couldnt-pay-april-rent/\">A recent survey by Apartment List\u003c/a> of nearly 1,000 California residents found nearly 11 percent of tenants were unable to pay any rent in April. Another 14 percent of renters could only make a partial payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s pretty consistent with what Bill Rosetti, the CEO of J & R Associates, an Oakland-based property management firm, said he’s seeing, with about 10 percent of the tenants in the 700 or 800 units his company owns unable to pay rent this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosetti is offering his tenants a 60-day deferral on rent and is using that time to figure out a payment plan. A five-decade veteran of the industry, Rosetti has seen recessions come and go. But he’s never experienced anything like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is way worse,” he said, “because in other cycles, it’s just a small percentage of people — 5 or 10 percent of tenants who can’t pay — but in this circumstance, every one of our tenants is impacted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He expects 30 percent of his tenants won’t be able to pay come June if the shelter in place continues, which will make it difficult to keep up with maintenance on the buildings and seismic retrofit work he had planned to do this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burden falls especially hard on small landlords who have just a few properties they rent out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Kim and his wife purchased a four-unit apartment building in Oakland’s Eastmont neighborhood last year. Most of the tenants use Section 8 vouchers to subsidize their rents, Kim said. And two of them couldn’t make payments this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim said he has no plans to evict his tenants. But he doesn’t know how long he can cover his mortgage without their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can do maybe six months, and then we’ll be forced to sell the building,” he said, adding that the time frame includes getting his bank to agree to a forbearance on the mortgage and taking out loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I don’t pay for April, May and June, my bank won’t charge interest, but come July, I have to pay in full,” he said. “And if I don’t pay anything until then, I will have a really big bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Ripple Effects\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If property owners can’t pay their mortgages or maintain their properties, a housing disaster could be looming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just renters that get hurt by this,” said Carol Galante, faculty director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and the former federal housing commissioner during the Obama administration. “I think people really don’t understand how much of the rent goes to covering the basics of owning and running a building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a worst case scenario, Galante said that if landlords start missing their payments, we could see an extended drop in rents and home values. On top of that, a spike in unemployment and an uncertain economic forecast could spell bad news for the housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want to see a dramatic distressed market,” Galante said. “That’s not good for anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as landlords are feeling uncertain about being able to pay their mortgages, electricity bills and maintenance, tenants are uncertain when they will go back to work — or even if they will go back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Bagley always thought hairdressing was a recession-proof profession. Even during the Great Depression, some people were getting their hair done, she said. Now, she’s not sure when she’ll be allowed to go back to work or what the economy will look like when she does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she doesn’t want to use the little savings she has on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 40% of California's workforce — many of whom were already in precarious financial positions — are at high risk of unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's according to a \u003ca href=\"https://economicrt.org/publication/in-harms-way/\">new report\u003c/a> from the Economic Roundtable, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit group that profiled the state's workforce using federal census and economic data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report underscores that the burden of unemployment is \"unequally distributed,\" resting most heavily on \"young adults, Latinos and workers in restaurant, hotel, personal care and janitorial jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11812651 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42789_Screen_Shot_2020-04-16_at_12.08.10_PM_1920x-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1329\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42789_Screen_Shot_2020-04-16_at_12.08.10_PM_1920x-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42789_Screen_Shot_2020-04-16_at_12.08.10_PM_1920x-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42789_Screen_Shot_2020-04-16_at_12.08.10_PM_1920x-qut-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42789_Screen_Shot_2020-04-16_at_12.08.10_PM_1920x-qut-1020x706.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using these three predictive factors, researchers determined that 43% of California's workforce do not have any of these protections, and are at risk of losing — or in some cases have already lost — their jobs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Economic Roundtable)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While these findings may come as little surprise given the staggering surge of new statewide \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-02/california-unemployment-claims-surge\">unemployment claims\u003c/a> in the last month, the report is intended to serve as a kind of atlas to highlight where workers currently stand and help the state determine where to allocate resources, said Daniel Flaming, president of the Economic Roundtable and one of the report's authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The economic downturn has been so sudden that there's a lot of chaos. There's truly high levels of uncertainty of where it's all going to lead and when it's going to end and how far down the floor is,\" Flaming explained. \"So we're not trying to make a prediction of how many jobs will be lost. But we think it's important to understand who is most vulnerable and where we can find them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flaming said there is a \"real risk\" of many workers and communities being overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report relies on three predictive factors established by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org\">Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis\u003c/a> to determine the risk faced by different types of workers in California. It suggests that those least likely to lose work during the state's ongoing shelter-in-place restrictions have groups that are either essential to public health and safety, can be conducted remotely or are typically salaried positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers determined that 43% of California's workforce do not fit within any of these categories and are at risk of losing — or in some cases have already lost — their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also notes that certain groups of typically low-wage workers — including those \"who prepare and serve food, do janitorial work, [and] provide personal care such as child care\" — are at extremely high risk of losing their jobs, with little likely savings to fall back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-16-at-12.09.14-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-11812645\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-16-at-12.09.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-16-at-12.09.14-PM.png 676w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-16-at-12.09.14-PM-160x317.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And things could get worse, the report's authors caution, emphasizing that as \"many more workers in high-risk jobs will become unemployed in the coming months as demand for goods and services by both businesses and workers continues to shrink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Flaming says prospects for those entering the job market are also grim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's one thing that should be on our radar screen — is the needs of young people and, conceivably, the need to create programs that can employ them and use their talents and give them a chance to earn a livelihood,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unemployment threat is also highly concentrated in certain geographic areas, according to the report, which identifies Stockton, Bakersfield, the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the Inland Empire as the highest risk areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report includes a list of recommendations of resources that federal, state and local leaders will need to provide to support the communities hardest hit during this prolonged period of crisis. For example, it stresses the importance of ensuring food banks have \"adequate food inventories and staffing in communities where there is a high need\" and providing legal aid and outreach staff who can help residents take advantage of full economic relief benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flaming said providing that financial support now could help mitigate some of the economic impact to the state down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of families don't have a financial cushion. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flaming said there is a \"real risk\" of many workers and communities being overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report relies on three predictive factors established by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org\">Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis\u003c/a> to determine the risk faced by different types of workers in California. It suggests that those least likely to lose work during the state's ongoing shelter-in-place restrictions have groups that are either essential to public health and safety, can be conducted remotely or are typically salaried positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers determined that 43% of California's workforce do not fit within any of these categories and are at risk of losing — or in some cases have already lost — their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also notes that certain groups of typically low-wage workers — including those \"who prepare and serve food, do janitorial work, [and] provide personal care such as child care\" — are at extremely high risk of losing their jobs, with little likely savings to fall back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-16-at-12.09.14-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-11812645\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-16-at-12.09.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-16-at-12.09.14-PM.png 676w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-16-at-12.09.14-PM-160x317.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And things could get worse, the report's authors caution, emphasizing that as \"many more workers in high-risk jobs will become unemployed in the coming months as demand for goods and services by both businesses and workers continues to shrink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Flaming says prospects for those entering the job market are also grim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's one thing that should be on our radar screen — is the needs of young people and, conceivably, the need to create programs that can employ them and use their talents and give them a chance to earn a livelihood,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unemployment threat is also highly concentrated in certain geographic areas, according to the report, which identifies Stockton, Bakersfield, the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the Inland Empire as the highest risk areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report includes a list of recommendations of resources that federal, state and local leaders will need to provide to support the communities hardest hit during this prolonged period of crisis. For example, it stresses the importance of ensuring food banks have \"adequate food inventories and staffing in communities where there is a high need\" and providing legal aid and outreach staff who can help residents take advantage of full economic relief benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flaming said providing that financial support now could help mitigate some of the economic impact to the state down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of families don't have a financial cushion. And with sudden unemployment, families really can't put food on the table,\" he said. \"Food banks and community outreach and education and legal assistance services are a lot cheaper than income maintenance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's a list of KQED resource guides for workers impacted by the coronavirus:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806938/how-to-file-for-unemployment-in-california-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\">How to File for Unemployment in California During the Coronavirus Pandemic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812172/how-to-navigate-bills-right-now-from-student-loans-to-phone-plans\">How to Navigate Bills Right Now, From Student Loans to Phone Plans\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810146/need-money-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-how-to-avoid-loan-sharks-and-debt-traps\">Need Money During the Coronavirus Pandemic? How to Avoid Loan Sharks and Debt Traps\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809833/stressed-about-paying-your-april-rent-check-here-first\">Stressed About Paying Rent? Check Here First\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just a month ago, picket lines surrounded the base of the UC Santa Cruz campus, the halls of buildings filled with chants like “My neck, my back, the UC is whack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The graduate student strike calling for a cost of living adjustment (COLA) started in Santa Cruz but quickly sparked solidarity actions at University of California campuses across the state, garnering \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/us/ucsc-strike.html\">national attention\u003c/a>. It was a wildcat strike, meaning not officially endorsed by the students’ union. Teaching assistants argued they weren’t earning enough to afford California’s pricey rents. The university said they should wait until their union contract expired to negotiate — and sent police armed with riot gear to confront them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the coronavirus emptying campuses and rallies impractical due to social distancing, graduate students are figuring out how to take their movement online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of March, strikers launched \u003ca href=\"https://strikeuniversity.org\">Strike University\u003c/a>, a series of online classes for activists covering subjects like “Graphic Design for Social Justice” and “Rethinking the Benevolent University.” The teach-ins aim to promote “free and accessible” public education, along with “critical thinking and skills not bound to the imperatives of the market,” the Strike University website reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers are also holding epic Zoom calls in which hundreds of strikers across the state discuss strategy and tactics. [aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate students had tried to gain leverage with the university by refusing to submit students’ grades, but that became harder during a pandemic, said Yulia Gilich, a cinema & digital media Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because everything is digital now, we cannot physically withhold blue books and everyone has access,” they said. “If the faculty wants to do the extra labor, they can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 80 graduate students at UC San Diego who were withholding winter quarter grades recently voted to submit them, saying they didn’t want to cause undergraduates additional stress during a pandemic — though other campuses remain on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union that represents more than 19,000 UC graduate student workers, United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865, reached agreement on two points with the university in March: Eighty-two graduate students fired from UC Santa Cruz in February for participating in the strike will have their health coverage reinstated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fired students were told in their dismissal letter that they would not be considered for a spring appointment, UC Santa Cruz allowed them to apply if they submitted last quarter’s grades and agreed not to strike again unless the union authorizes it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the context of a global pandemic and mass joblessness, we felt it was crucial to do everything we could to preserve these jobs,” Kavitha Iyengar, the union’s president, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strikers, however, said that the agreement didn’t go far enough, as it didn’t ensure compensation for those who could no longer find spring appointments. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other things have changed, too. UC Santa Cruz had been spending heavily to police the picket line, where 17 students were arrested in February. Not anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilich and a dozen other UC Santa Cruz graduate students started their campaign nearly a year ago, after failed efforts to pass a rent control measure in the city of Santa Cruz and set up a safe overnight parking program for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was just a feeling of defeat with every campaign that we ended up working on that failed,” Gilich said. “Our situations continue to get more and more dire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC graduate students make $22,000 a year before taxes, on average, according to the university; the \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=median%20rent%20santa%20cruz,%20california&hidePreview=false&tid=ACSDT1Y2018.B25064&vintage=2018&layer=county&cid=DP04_0001E&g=0500000US06065&y=2018\">average monthly rent\u003c/a> in Santa Cruz County is $1,685.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since coming to UC Santa Cruz from Russia four years ago, Gilich says they have consistently spent more than half of their paycheck on rent each month, though they live with multiple housemates. Because Gilich is in the United States on an international student visa, they can’t legally pick up additional jobs beyond their teaching appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like research,” Gilich said. “UCSC was my first choice for my Ph.D. I like teaching. I really enjoy the work that I do. But I can’t live here and do it on the salary I’m being paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11812659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster supporting graduate student workers seeking higher wages is seen from a window near UC Berkeley campus on March 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the COLA campaign began refusing to submit grades in December, \u003ca href=\"https://payusmoreucsc.com/grade-request-flowchart/\">except in certain cases\u003c/a>, then stopped teaching and research in February. The strike was unsanctioned by their union because it came in the middle of a contract with a no-strike clause. But strikers’ demand for a $1,412 per month pay increase to cover the rising cost of living resonated with other UC graduate students. Some teaching assistants at UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine are now also on full strike, withholding all labor. Others at UC Davis and UC Berkeley are withholding grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COLA movement harnessed graduate students’ structural power, said Veena Dubal, an associate professor of law at UC Hastings with expertise in labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Graduate students carry much of the teaching load across the campuses, and yet, their work to this end is often seen as peripheral to their role as academic apprentices,” Dubal said in an email. “The labor is central — not just to them but also to the universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW 2865 has also taken up the cause, filing two unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board after the graduate student firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC has declined to bargain with the union over a cost of living adjustment, though UC Santa Cruz now offers graduate students a $2,500 need-based housing grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Striking while a collective bargaining agreement is in place undermines the collective bargaining process and erodes the ability of UC and its unions to enter into good-faith labor agreements,” the university said \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/graduate-student-protests\">in an online statement\u003c/a>. “This strike also hurts our undergraduates by disrupting their educational activities and preventing them from advancing to the next course level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the coronavirus pandemic, graduate student life was stressful. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/survey-documents-graduate/graduate_well_being_survey_report.pdf\">UC Graduate Well-Being Survey\u003c/a> from 2017 found that over one-third of respondents reported symptoms indicating clinical depression. Two-thirds said they worried about money, with those who were confident about their finances more likely to be on track to complete their programs. [aside tag=\"graduate-student-strike\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has exacerbated that stress, as campuses finish the academic year remotely and living conditions become working conditions. Graduate students say they are taking on additional work to help professors move classes online, while their educational and research experience has been upended by campus closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Merced, teaching assistants have been helping science and math professors convert their courses into “flipped” classes, in which prerecorded lectures are given to students as homework and lecture time is used for students to split up into small groups facilitated by TAs, said Anh Diep, a graduate student and union representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re becoming curriculum developers on top of being teaching assistants,” Diep said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diep added that those who left campus to live with their families now help run households, especially first-generation college students and those from immigrant backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those students are caretakers — they’re helpers with siblings’ homework, elderly parents, relatives’ children, and they now have to do their homework and job while helping out the family,” they said. “I’ve seen [for those students] that the moment you come home, you become the point person to disseminate information to your family. You carry the mental burden of keeping up with the news, especially in this global pandemic, and needing to understand it and explain it to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COLA organizers are trying to build bridges with undergraduates also affected by the pandemic. Some undergraduates have attended past COLA rallies, but others have expressed concerns about the movement affecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faoh6o/the_cola_campaigns_response_to_the_cse102_midterm/fizkbp0/\">undergraduate allies\u003c/a> of the UC Santa Cruz COLA organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faoh6o/the_cola_campaigns_response_to_the_cse102_midterm/fizkbp0/\">disrupted\u003c/a> a computer science midterm in late February, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faj0nd/disrupting_a_midterm_is_absolutely_crossing_the/\">drew the ire\u003c/a> of several students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just appears to me that you’re having a [expletive] party complete with a live band every day on the lawn at the base of campus whilst I’m beating my brain against the wall through sleepless night after sleepless night to get a [expletive] undergrad degree at age 40, which feels humiliating enough when all my classmates are 20 years younger than me,” one commenter \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faj0nd/disrupting_a_midterm_is_absolutely_crossing_the/fizm44r/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf\">wrote on Reddit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A subreddit dedicated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/ucscstac/\">UC Santa Cruz students against COLA\u003c/a> is filled with stories detailing students’ frustration with the protests’ effect on classes and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To strengthen ties with undergraduates, some graduate students at UC Irvine decided to hold a “social welfare” strike: Instead of teaching or grading, they’re compiling \u003ca href=\"https://uci4cola.com/?page_id=28\">resource lists\u003c/a> for students who need help with food, housing, child care or immigration cases. And they’re setting up mutual aid networks to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRM2CrWuhqDRrmqPxjkDbjo6ukeKuG_JIwpMLWffYU9eSLFw/viewform\">connect\u003c/a> those who need support to those who can provide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The COLA campaign is […] a matter of public health, as people living in cramped or inadequate housing conditions due to low wages and high rent costs do not have the privilege of implementing ‘social distancing,’ ” reads a press release from the UC Irvine strikers. “Many students are living paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford rent, medicine or even food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the movement has become less visible in the wake of the pandemic, UAW plans to hold a vote this month on whether to authorize an official statewide strike linked to the unfair labor practice charges. (Two-thirds of members would have to sign off.) Union officials say they’ll ask UC to bargain over a cost of living adjustment that varies by campus depending on rents in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not they succeed, Gilich said the COLA movement has already drawn attention to structural barriers to higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not independently wealthy or willing to go into debt to go to grad school, you cannot survive here,” Gilich said. “A fight for COLA is a fight for the future of higher education and who will have access to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Janelle Salanga is a fellow with CalMatters’ \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/corona-on-campus/\">College Journalism Network\u003c/a>, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists across California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other things have changed, too. UC Santa Cruz had been spending heavily to police the picket line, where 17 students were arrested in February. Not anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilich and a dozen other UC Santa Cruz graduate students started their campaign nearly a year ago, after failed efforts to pass a rent control measure in the city of Santa Cruz and set up a safe overnight parking program for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was just a feeling of defeat with every campaign that we ended up working on that failed,” Gilich said. “Our situations continue to get more and more dire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC graduate students make $22,000 a year before taxes, on average, according to the university; the \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=median%20rent%20santa%20cruz,%20california&hidePreview=false&tid=ACSDT1Y2018.B25064&vintage=2018&layer=county&cid=DP04_0001E&g=0500000US06065&y=2018\">average monthly rent\u003c/a> in Santa Cruz County is $1,685.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since coming to UC Santa Cruz from Russia four years ago, Gilich says they have consistently spent more than half of their paycheck on rent each month, though they live with multiple housemates. Because Gilich is in the United States on an international student visa, they can’t legally pick up additional jobs beyond their teaching appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like research,” Gilich said. “UCSC was my first choice for my Ph.D. I like teaching. I really enjoy the work that I do. But I can’t live here and do it on the salary I’m being paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11812659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster supporting graduate student workers seeking higher wages is seen from a window near UC Berkeley campus on March 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the COLA campaign began refusing to submit grades in December, \u003ca href=\"https://payusmoreucsc.com/grade-request-flowchart/\">except in certain cases\u003c/a>, then stopped teaching and research in February. The strike was unsanctioned by their union because it came in the middle of a contract with a no-strike clause. But strikers’ demand for a $1,412 per month pay increase to cover the rising cost of living resonated with other UC graduate students. Some teaching assistants at UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine are now also on full strike, withholding all labor. Others at UC Davis and UC Berkeley are withholding grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COLA movement harnessed graduate students’ structural power, said Veena Dubal, an associate professor of law at UC Hastings with expertise in labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Graduate students carry much of the teaching load across the campuses, and yet, their work to this end is often seen as peripheral to their role as academic apprentices,” Dubal said in an email. “The labor is central — not just to them but also to the universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW 2865 has also taken up the cause, filing two unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board after the graduate student firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC has declined to bargain with the union over a cost of living adjustment, though UC Santa Cruz now offers graduate students a $2,500 need-based housing grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Striking while a collective bargaining agreement is in place undermines the collective bargaining process and erodes the ability of UC and its unions to enter into good-faith labor agreements,” the university said \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/graduate-student-protests\">in an online statement\u003c/a>. “This strike also hurts our undergraduates by disrupting their educational activities and preventing them from advancing to the next course level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the coronavirus pandemic, graduate student life was stressful. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/survey-documents-graduate/graduate_well_being_survey_report.pdf\">UC Graduate Well-Being Survey\u003c/a> from 2017 found that over one-third of respondents reported symptoms indicating clinical depression. Two-thirds said they worried about money, with those who were confident about their finances more likely to be on track to complete their programs. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has exacerbated that stress, as campuses finish the academic year remotely and living conditions become working conditions. Graduate students say they are taking on additional work to help professors move classes online, while their educational and research experience has been upended by campus closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Merced, teaching assistants have been helping science and math professors convert their courses into “flipped” classes, in which prerecorded lectures are given to students as homework and lecture time is used for students to split up into small groups facilitated by TAs, said Anh Diep, a graduate student and union representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re becoming curriculum developers on top of being teaching assistants,” Diep said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diep added that those who left campus to live with their families now help run households, especially first-generation college students and those from immigrant backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those students are caretakers — they’re helpers with siblings’ homework, elderly parents, relatives’ children, and they now have to do their homework and job while helping out the family,” they said. “I’ve seen [for those students] that the moment you come home, you become the point person to disseminate information to your family. You carry the mental burden of keeping up with the news, especially in this global pandemic, and needing to understand it and explain it to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COLA organizers are trying to build bridges with undergraduates also affected by the pandemic. Some undergraduates have attended past COLA rallies, but others have expressed concerns about the movement affecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faoh6o/the_cola_campaigns_response_to_the_cse102_midterm/fizkbp0/\">undergraduate allies\u003c/a> of the UC Santa Cruz COLA organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faoh6o/the_cola_campaigns_response_to_the_cse102_midterm/fizkbp0/\">disrupted\u003c/a> a computer science midterm in late February, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faj0nd/disrupting_a_midterm_is_absolutely_crossing_the/\">drew the ire\u003c/a> of several students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just appears to me that you’re having a [expletive] party complete with a live band every day on the lawn at the base of campus whilst I’m beating my brain against the wall through sleepless night after sleepless night to get a [expletive] undergrad degree at age 40, which feels humiliating enough when all my classmates are 20 years younger than me,” one commenter \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faj0nd/disrupting_a_midterm_is_absolutely_crossing_the/fizm44r/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf\">wrote on Reddit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A subreddit dedicated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/ucscstac/\">UC Santa Cruz students against COLA\u003c/a> is filled with stories detailing students’ frustration with the protests’ effect on classes and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To strengthen ties with undergraduates, some graduate students at UC Irvine decided to hold a “social welfare” strike: Instead of teaching or grading, they’re compiling \u003ca href=\"https://uci4cola.com/?page_id=28\">resource lists\u003c/a> for students who need help with food, housing, child care or immigration cases. And they’re setting up mutual aid networks to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRM2CrWuhqDRrmqPxjkDbjo6ukeKuG_JIwpMLWffYU9eSLFw/viewform\">connect\u003c/a> those who need support to those who can provide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The COLA campaign is […] a matter of public health, as people living in cramped or inadequate housing conditions due to low wages and high rent costs do not have the privilege of implementing ‘social distancing,’ ” reads a press release from the UC Irvine strikers. “Many students are living paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford rent, medicine or even food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the movement has become less visible in the wake of the pandemic, UAW plans to hold a vote this month on whether to authorize an official statewide strike linked to the unfair labor practice charges. (Two-thirds of members would have to sign off.) Union officials say they’ll ask UC to bargain over a cost of living adjustment that varies by campus depending on rents in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not they succeed, Gilich said the COLA movement has already drawn attention to structural barriers to higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not independently wealthy or willing to go into debt to go to grad school, you cannot survive here,” Gilich said. “A fight for COLA is a fight for the future of higher education and who will have access to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Janelle Salanga is a fellow with CalMatters’ \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/corona-on-campus/\">College Journalism Network\u003c/a>, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists across California. 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"content": "\u003cp>They come once a week to haul away your trash, scoop up your recyclables and in many locations, pick up your compost. But as the coronavirus pandemic and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806988/sheltering-in-place-what-you-need-to-know\">statewide shelter-in-place orders\u003c/a> have shut down businesses and caused millions of layoffs, garbage collectors are worried about their ability to keep the trucks rolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://d12v9rtnomnebu.cloudfront.net/diveimages/2020.04.03_CA_SOLID_WASTE_AND_RECYCLING_INDUSTRY_LETTER-FINAL.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom in early April, 40 industry stakeholders, including large waste haulers and the Teamsters union, warned that they will soon need support from the state to continue providing solid waste collection services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because garbage companies are losing significant revenue from the sudden drop in business activity — revenue they rely on to fund their operations, from fueling and fixing trucks to keeping employees paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=”medium” align= “right” citation=\"Eric Potashner, Recology vice president\"]\"Basically everybody still needs their waste and recycling service, whether or not they can pay the bill.” [/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the state, 10-20% of commercial accounts have been canceled or significantly reduced, said Eric Potashner, vice president at Recology, which serves areas from Sacramento to Monterey and which co-signed the letter to the governor. And while weekly garbage collection is mandated by state law, garbage companies are expected to figure out how to stay profitable and in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potashner warned that at the current rate “the industry will start to get challenged in terms of being able to continue to provide the service at the level they're doing right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, everybody still needs their waste and recycling service, whether or not they can pay the bill,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812524\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11812524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42741_049_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Recology employees separate garbage from recyclables at a processing facility at Pier 96 in San Francisco on April 9, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42741_049_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42741_049_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42741_049_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42741_049_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recology employees separate garbage from recyclables at a processing facility at Pier 96 in San Francisco on April 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ymaws.com/wasterecycling.org/resource/resmgr/hwi_minutes/HWI_COVID-2019_FAQs.pdf\">guidance from public health officials\u003c/a> suggests that collecting garbage doesn’t pose a major risk to workers as long as they follow social distancing and hygiene guidelines, including frequent hand washing and disinfecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keeping our workforce healthy through this pandemic is most important because if we had an outbreak ... among our employee base, it would significantly impact our ability to serve the city,” Potashner said. “That would create a whole other set of public health issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While garbage collection is included on the state’s list of \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/img/EssentialCriticalInfrastructureWorkers.pdf\">Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers\u003c/a>, there have been some layoffs, said John Bouchard, a representative for Teamsters Local 350, which represents workers at almost every garbage collection company in the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drop in garbage coming from businesses has meant that jobs for those who work at transfer stations — where garbage is amassed before being trucked to landfills — and transfer truck drivers have also been reduced, Bouchard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we're trying to do is secure funding from the state to help support the employers, because in turn, that supports our members,” Bouchard said. “These companies are losing money and we need to do something about that, to make sure they can continue to operate and function and keep everybody working and provide the service that's required to keep the garbage off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recyclers Take Extra Precautions During Coronavirus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812525\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11812525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42738_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Recology employee and union shop steward Ayanna Banks puts on three layers of gloves before going to work on a sorting line at Recology's processing facility in San Francisco on April 9, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42738_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42738_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42738_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42738_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recology employee and union shop steward Ayanna Banks puts on three layers of gloves before going to work on a sorting line at Recology's processing facility in San Francisco on April 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there’s recycling, which is a large part of the waste stream in California. Even with the latest in high-tech machinery, recycling operations require a crew of workers to help sort a wide stream of glass, paper, plastic and metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Recology’s San Francisco sorting facility, which occupies a sprawling 200,000 square feet on Pier 96, workers are being spaced farther apart, while some production lines have been slowed, said Robert Reed, Recology public relations manager. Vending machines that dispense gloves and other safety gear have been available for several years, and during the current public health crisis, workers are taking extra precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=”medium” align= “right” citation=\"Ayanna Banks, sorter and shop steward at Recology\"]\"The virus, we don't know what it's on — cardboard or metal or anything. So we're risking ourselves every day.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Ayanna Banks prepared for her shift as a sorter. She donned a hard hat and a face mask and layered on three sets of protective gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even under normal circumstances, the work has its hazards — conveyor belts speed along, laden with recyclables mixed together with TV cables, bed sheets and syringes, to name a few of the items that don’t belong. Everywhere there are heavy machines, some with lightning-fast robotic arms, booming and humming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Banks says, going to work adds the additional risk of being exposed to the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The virus, we don't know what it's on — cardboard or metal or anything. So we're risking ourselves every day,” Banks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Banks, who has worked at Recology for 20 years and is a Teamsters shop steward, said the job of processing nearly 650 tons of recyclables daily is important for both public health and sanitation and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're out here making sure that the city of San Francisco, everything, is going as normal, even in this crisis right now,” she said. “We play a big role in the economy and in the atmosphere and the Earth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, recyclers around the state say the need for recyclables hasn’t gone away with coronavirus: Recycled paper is needed for things like toilet paper and cardboard shipping boxes — both of which have been in high demand as people shelter in place and do more online shopping.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Large Drop in Supply of Recyclables\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11812523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Conveyor belts speed along, laden with recyclables mixed together with TV cables, bed sheets, and syringes, to name a few of the items that don’t belong, at Recology's processing facility in San Francisco on April 9, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conveyor belts speed along, laden with recyclables mixed together with TV cables, bed sheets and syringes, to name a few of the items that don’t belong, at Recology's processing facility in San Francisco on April 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While recycling operations are still going strong at Recology, that’s not the case everywhere. Many buy-back centers — where anyone can redeem bottles and cans for cash — have been shut down around the state because they are high-touch and high-interaction points, said Rich Costa, director of procurement and sustainability for major plastics recycler CarbonLite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CarbonLite processes recycled plastic in Riverside and sells it to bottle manufacturers, including PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Niagara Bottling, and typically handles 8-9 million pounds of #1 plastic (or PET) bottles per month from buy-back centers, Costa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That supply has dropped by 60% since California's shelter-in-place order began, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most counties are continuing curbside recycling programs, a few counties in Southern California are collecting, \u003ca href=\"https://d12v9rtnomnebu.cloudfront.net/diveimages/COVID-19_Recycling_Suspensions_New.pdf\">but not processing\u003c/a> the recyclables, according to industry publication \u003ca href=\"https://www.wastedive.com/news/coronavirus-us-waste-recycling-disruption-tracker/574324/\">Waste Dive\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many recyclables are likely ending up in landfills, Costa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're gonna lose all those recyclables forever,” he said. “That's the last thing we want to have happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If CarbonLite and other recyclers can’t provide enough clean, recycled plastic, bottle manufacturers will only have less incentive to keep using recycled plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costa’s plea to California residents? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the county has housed about 170 homeless people overall, Kelly said, including some released from Santa Rita Jail. But he added that the initiatives faced staffing shortages. Plus, these efforts don’t apply to people who are under 65 with healthy immune systems who have not tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office has reduced the jail population by over 700 since March 1, trimming the number of people held by more than 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this week, Nunn said, his organization has housed 20 people released from Santa Rita Jail in hotel rooms and spent about $35,500. He estimates they’ve raised enough money to house 50 people for two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunn’s team members, many of whom are formerly incarcerated, have stood outside of Santa Rita, waiting to give gift cards and hotel vouchers to people released from the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunn plans on continuing this emergency work for as long as he has the funds — and said he hopes that the issues raised by the pandemic will resonate after the worst of the virus is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many of us who have been fighting this fight for [the] long term, this is an I told you so moment,” he said. “Cuz we’ve been saying for years, y’all have not actually planned for people returning.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Trump insists he took the pandemic seriously from the start, but that night he seemed to be sharing some wishful thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will significantly reduce the threat to our citizens, and we will ultimately expeditiously defeat this virus,\" Trump said with an oddly flat tone in his voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stock market crashed, and the president has been on the defensive for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a president used to bragging about his accomplishments and mocking his opponents, the coronavirus is a different kind of adversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the hardest parts about this is you're having to give people a lot of bad news, which is normally not what a politician wants to do,\" said Matt James, former communications director for the Kaiser Family Foundation. 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Like California, the coronavirus pandemic has upended how political campaigns — normally reliant on face-to-face contact — are doing business, says Phoenix-based political consultant Catherine Alonzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonzo, whose firm Javelina represents political campaigns as well as businesses and nonprofits, says that normally politics is considered recession-proof. But the current downturn is proving a bit different than the last bust in 2009, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With social distancing and the expected economic, really sort of devastating, impact on people, that it is hitting politics in two of its very fundamental areas, which is in-person outreach to start with, and then also, of course, fundraising,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonzo says she’s giving all of her clients a few key pieces of advice. One is to stay flexible because things are changing quickly. 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Radio reporters, for eons — well, at least since I started cutting tape in the late 1990s with razor blades — have despised \"phone tape.\" That is an interview with someone recorded over a telephone line, as opposed to in person. For one thing, it reveals that the reporter didn’t sit down and look the interviewee in their eyes when asking the questions. But it also sounds weaker and less clear than in-person audio recordings. And because of that, editors and radio newsroom leaders have always preached that reporters don’t just get phone tape\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, our reporters are expected to get phone tape. I do not believe our reporters should be going out into the field for interviews that they could be recording over a phone ... for their safety, for the safety of the person they are interviewing ... and for our collective public health. They could be the vector that spreads this thing, and so relying on phone tape is now a good thing. 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"content": "\u003cp>When officials began issuing local and statewide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806988/sheltering-in-place-what-you-need-to-know\">shelter-in-place orders \u003c/a>in March to stem the spread of the coronavirus, scores of businesses across the country were forced to shutter, leaving \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/09/830216099/6-6-million-more-file-for-unemployment-as-coronavirus-keeps-economy-shut\">a historic number\u003c/a> of Americans unemployed and grappling with overwhelming financial loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help soften the blow, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/821457551/whats-inside-the-senate-s-2-trillion-coronavirus-aid-package\">CARES Act\u003c/a>, a massive $2.2 trillion stimulus package. Among many other things, the bill includes one-time payments of up to $1,200 per person for millions of Americans with adjusted gross incomes of up to $75,000, plus $500 for each qualifying child. On April 11, the Internal Revenue Service \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/IRSnews/status/1249062356077944832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1249062356077944832&ref_url=about%3Asrcdoc\">announced\u003c/a> it had issued the first set of checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But $1,200 only goes so far — especially in the Bay Area — and if you find yourself still unable to pay your bills, there are other forms of financial assistance potentially available. But before contacting creditors and lenders, it's crucial to come up with a solid game plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the very first step that you need to take is to sit down and look at all of your financial resources and take into account everything that you have available to survive a reduction or loss of income,” said Bruce McClary, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfcc.org\">National Foundation for Credit Counseling\u003c/a>, a nationwide network of nonprofit financial counseling organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClary suggests that everyone — even those with substantial savings — implement an emergency budget and be aware of relief options. “Things are changing on this front, and there are more programs that are likely to be announced,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re experiencing financial hardship due to the pandemic, navigating available relief options can be a downright overwhelming process. So, here’s what you need to know about paying the bills that might be on your plate:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#1\">Calling About Payment Options? Read This First\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#2\">Banks and Credit Card Lenders\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#3\">Utilities\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#4\">Phone and WiFi\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#5\">Student Loans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#6\">Car Payments and Insurance\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#7\">Rent, Mortgage and Property Taxes\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a> Calling About Payment Options? Read This First\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before contacting your creditors or lenders, make sure you’re prepared and know what to say in order to access the full range of payment relief options available, whether it be loan deferments and fee waivers options or payment plans and continued service guarantees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11806938\" label=\"Guide: Filing for Unemployment\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42106_004_KQED_EDD_UnemploymentApplication_03162020_8407-qut-1-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be a lot of phone calls, but it's very important that you start the process and that you're the one who initiates these conversations,” McClary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/protect-yourself-financially-from-impact-of-coronavirus/\"> Consumer Protection Finance Bureau\u003c/a>, you should have the following information in hand before contacting lenders:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your financial and employment status\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How much you can afford to pay\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When you’re likely to be able to restart regular payments\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Detailed information about your income, expenses and assets\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It's always best to enter into the conversation with a broader question about what programs are available for people who are experiencing financial hardships that are related to COVID- 19,\" McClary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning the call with an open-ended question allows the lender or creditor the opportunity to tell you what kind of relief options are available. Explain your situation and be sure to explicitly say you’re experiencing financial hardship due to the coronavirus. Some lenders may have certain processes already in place for borrowers who are impacted by the crisis, but not necessarily for those experiencing unrelated financial hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If possible, make sure you request in writing any assistance options that are offered by your financial institution, and at the very least, take good notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could also be beneficial to consult a financial or housing counselor before reaching out to creditors to make sure you're prepared. You can access free or low-cost financial counseling through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfcc.org\">NFCC\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://fcaa.org\">Financial Counseling Association of America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've lost a significant chunk of your income, one commonly offered form of relief is known as a forbearance program. It allows you to skip one or more bill or loan payments, usually without penalties like late fees or having services turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If forbearance isn’t an option, other programs may also be available, like reduced payment plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone says 'We don't have forbearance programs,' don't hang up the phone and think that you're out of options,” said McClary. “Ask leading questions to identify what other options are available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you don't think you're getting the assistance you're entitled to, some experts suggest filing a complaint to federal and state consumer protection agencies (which you can do \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/\">here \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/financial-services\">here\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes that can make a difference,\" said Kevin Stein, deputy director of the \u003ca href=\"http://calreinvest.org\">California Reinvestment Coalition\u003c/a>. \"And there are people in the agency who are supposed to be looking for trends and bad actors, so maybe it's information they would act upon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a list of specific relief programs available if you're struggling to pay your bills. But remember, creditors and lenders may be able to provide relief on a case-by-case basis, even if certain options aren't listed on their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"2\">\u003c/a>Banks and Credit Card Lenders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many banks and credit card lenders are now offering forms of assistance to help borrowers impacted by the pandemic, including options like fee waivers and forbearance. Again, when speaking to a lender, make sure you explicitly explain you are suffering financial hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic and allow them to tell you what programs are available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Banker Association compiled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aba.com/about-us/press-room/industry-response-coronavirus\">directory of U.S. banks\u003c/a> and what they’re doing to assist customers who are financially impacted by the crisis. Even if a bank or credit card lender’s policy doesn’t explicitly outline the kind of assistance you’re looking for, relief may be available on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do receive forbearance or other forms of assistance from a lender, routinely \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/how-do-i-get-a-copy-of-my-credit-reports-en-5/\">check your credit report\u003c/a> to ensure no inaccuracies are being reported. You can access a free credit report once a year from each of the following companies: \u003ca href=\"https://www.equifax.com/personal/\">Equifax\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.experian.com\">Experian\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.transunion.com\">TransUnion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"3\">\u003c/a>Utilities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many of us are spending a lot more time at home these days and because of that, we're likely using more electricity than normal. Coupled with coronavirus-related financial pressure, you may find that you need assistance paying your monthly utility bill and making sure the lights stay on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11810146, science_1961210\" label=\"How to Avoid Getting Scammed\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_CheckCashing_03202020-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, many utility companies — including Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Sacramento Municipal Utility District — have all \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/03/utilities-wont-shut-off-power-coronavirus/\">promised they won't shut off \u003c/a>power to customers who can't pay their bills during the coronavirus crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, people who have lost their jobs due to COVID-19 may qualify for PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/care/care.page\">California Alternate Rates for Energy Program\u003c/a>, which provides a 20% to 35% discount on utility bills. Households with three or more people may also qualify for an 18% discount on electricity through the utility's Family Electric Rate Assistance Program. Text “CARE” to 20283 to find out if you’re eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"4\">\u003c/a>Phone and WiFi\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai asked telephone and broadband service providers to take the Keep Americans Connected Pledge, which ensures a continuation of service to customers during the coronavirus crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 700 companies have signed on to pledge so far. Here is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/keep-americans-connected\">list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means, for at least 60 days, those companies have promised to do the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Not terminate service to any residential or small business customers because of their inability to pay their bills due to disruptions caused by the coronavirus.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Waive any late fees that any residential or small business customers incur because of their economic circumstances related to the crisis\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Open Wi-Fi hotspots to anyone who needs them\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Below are some additional offerings available from the largest internet providers in the Bay Area for people who have been impacted by the coronavirus crisis. This list is not all-inclusive, so contact your WiFi provider to inquire about assistance available for your specific situation. All of the following companies are also promising no disconnects or late fees during this period:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/internet-essentials-low-income-broadband-coronavirus-pandemic\">Comcast\u003c/a>: Comcast is making 1.5 million of its\u003ca href=\"https://www.xfinity.com/prepare\"> Xfinity WiFi hotspots free\u003c/a> across the country during the pandemic. To locate a hotspot near you, search \u003ca href=\"https://www.xfinity.com/mobile/network/map\">this interactive map\u003c/a>. Qualified new low-income customers can also get 60 days of free internet. The company is also giving customers unlimited data for 60 days with no additional charges.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mobile.spectrum.com/support/article/360040980371/coronavirus-covid19-update\">Spectrum\u003c/a>: Spectrum is making its \u003ca href=\"https://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/spectrum-wifi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WiFi hotspots\u003c/a> available for public use. The company is also offering free internet access for 60 days to households with students and educators.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://about.att.com/pages/COVID-19.html\">AT&T\u003c/a>: AT&T is providing three months of free wireless service for frontline nurses and physicians nationwide.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.verizon.com/support/covid-19-faqs/\">Verizon\u003c/a>: Verizon is offering customers additional mobile hotspot data.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonic.com/cov19\">Sonic\u003c/a>: Sonic is offering three months of free internet access and unlimited nationwide home telephone service to households with students or residents 60 and older.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>Student Loans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Under the CARES Act, you may be able to suspend student loan payments through Sept. 30, 2020, but only \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-student-loans-and-coronavirus-pandemic/\">if they’re federal loans\u003c/a>, not ones issued through private banks, credit unions, schools or other entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payments for student loans owned by the federal government will be suspended automatically, so you don’t need to worry about contacting your loan-service provider. The interest rate is set to 0% through Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many private lenders, however, are offering reduced payment plans or ways to postpone your payments. Contact your lender directly to find out about payment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t know who your loan servicer is, call the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/servicers\">Federal Student Aid Information Center\u003c/a> at 1-800-433-3243 to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should never be asked to pay a fee to suspend your federal student loans. If this occurs, report it to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1\">Federal Trade Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"6\">\u003c/a>Car payments and Insurance\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you can't pay your auto loan, your lender may be able to work with you to provide some relief. Several major lenders have offered options to help people paying off a car or buying a new one, such as waiving late fees or allowing deferred payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/worried-about-making-your-auto-loan-payments-your-lender-may-have-options-to-help/\">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recommends\u003c/a> following these steps:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ask to change the date your payment is due\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Request a payment plan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ask for a payment extension/deferral\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Consider refinancing your auto loan\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For your auto insurance, you're likely eligible to receive a rebate or payment deferrals. As shelter-in-place orders have reduced traffic on the road, California insurance commissioner \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2020/release038-2020.cfm\">Ricardo Lara ordered\u003c/a> insurance companies to return premiums to drivers and businesses during the coronavirus crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reach out to your insurance company to find out the full range of financial relief they may be offering during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"7\">\u003c/a>Rent, Mortgage and Property Taxes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For tenants: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809833/stressed-about-paying-your-april-rent-check-here-first\">KQED created a guide\u003c/a> outlining what to do and what protections are available if you can't pay rent during the coronavirus crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can’t pay your mortgage, or can only pay part of it, you should reach out to your mortgage servicer, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/guide-coronavirus-mortgage-relief-options/\">a guide on mortgage relief options\u003c/a>, including information about protections through the CARES Act for homeowners with federally backed mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most California counties, property taxes were due April 10, but nearly all counties in the state have agreed to waive penalties for late payments on a case-by-case basis if you can demonstrate that you've been financially impacted by the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo and San Francisco counties also both extended their property tax deadlines to May 4. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be a lot of phone calls, but it's very important that you start the process and that you're the one who initiates these conversations,” McClary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/protect-yourself-financially-from-impact-of-coronavirus/\"> Consumer Protection Finance Bureau\u003c/a>, you should have the following information in hand before contacting lenders:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your financial and employment status\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How much you can afford to pay\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When you’re likely to be able to restart regular payments\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Detailed information about your income, expenses and assets\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It's always best to enter into the conversation with a broader question about what programs are available for people who are experiencing financial hardships that are related to COVID- 19,\" McClary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning the call with an open-ended question allows the lender or creditor the opportunity to tell you what kind of relief options are available. Explain your situation and be sure to explicitly say you’re experiencing financial hardship due to the coronavirus. Some lenders may have certain processes already in place for borrowers who are impacted by the crisis, but not necessarily for those experiencing unrelated financial hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If possible, make sure you request in writing any assistance options that are offered by your financial institution, and at the very least, take good notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could also be beneficial to consult a financial or housing counselor before reaching out to creditors to make sure you're prepared. You can access free or low-cost financial counseling through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfcc.org\">NFCC\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://fcaa.org\">Financial Counseling Association of America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've lost a significant chunk of your income, one commonly offered form of relief is known as a forbearance program. It allows you to skip one or more bill or loan payments, usually without penalties like late fees or having services turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If forbearance isn’t an option, other programs may also be available, like reduced payment plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone says 'We don't have forbearance programs,' don't hang up the phone and think that you're out of options,” said McClary. “Ask leading questions to identify what other options are available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you don't think you're getting the assistance you're entitled to, some experts suggest filing a complaint to federal and state consumer protection agencies (which you can do \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/\">here \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/financial-services\">here\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes that can make a difference,\" said Kevin Stein, deputy director of the \u003ca href=\"http://calreinvest.org\">California Reinvestment Coalition\u003c/a>. \"And there are people in the agency who are supposed to be looking for trends and bad actors, so maybe it's information they would act upon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a list of specific relief programs available if you're struggling to pay your bills. But remember, creditors and lenders may be able to provide relief on a case-by-case basis, even if certain options aren't listed on their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Households with three or more people may also qualify for an 18% discount on electricity through the utility's Family Electric Rate Assistance Program. Text “CARE” to 20283 to find out if you’re eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"4\">\u003c/a>Phone and WiFi\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai asked telephone and broadband service providers to take the Keep Americans Connected Pledge, which ensures a continuation of service to customers during the coronavirus crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 700 companies have signed on to pledge so far. 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All of the following companies are also promising no disconnects or late fees during this period:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/internet-essentials-low-income-broadband-coronavirus-pandemic\">Comcast\u003c/a>: Comcast is making 1.5 million of its\u003ca href=\"https://www.xfinity.com/prepare\"> Xfinity WiFi hotspots free\u003c/a> across the country during the pandemic. To locate a hotspot near you, search \u003ca href=\"https://www.xfinity.com/mobile/network/map\">this interactive map\u003c/a>. Qualified new low-income customers can also get 60 days of free internet. The company is also giving customers unlimited data for 60 days with no additional charges.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mobile.spectrum.com/support/article/360040980371/coronavirus-covid19-update\">Spectrum\u003c/a>: Spectrum is making its \u003ca href=\"https://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/spectrum-wifi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WiFi hotspots\u003c/a> available for public use. The company is also offering free internet access for 60 days to households with students and educators.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://about.att.com/pages/COVID-19.html\">AT&T\u003c/a>: AT&T is providing three months of free wireless service for frontline nurses and physicians nationwide.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.verizon.com/support/covid-19-faqs/\">Verizon\u003c/a>: Verizon is offering customers additional mobile hotspot data.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonic.com/cov19\">Sonic\u003c/a>: Sonic is offering three months of free internet access and unlimited nationwide home telephone service to households with students or residents 60 and older.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>Student Loans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Under the CARES Act, you may be able to suspend student loan payments through Sept. 30, 2020, but only \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-student-loans-and-coronavirus-pandemic/\">if they’re federal loans\u003c/a>, not ones issued through private banks, credit unions, schools or other entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payments for student loans owned by the federal government will be suspended automatically, so you don’t need to worry about contacting your loan-service provider. The interest rate is set to 0% through Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many private lenders, however, are offering reduced payment plans or ways to postpone your payments. Contact your lender directly to find out about payment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t know who your loan servicer is, call the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/servicers\">Federal Student Aid Information Center\u003c/a> at 1-800-433-3243 to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should never be asked to pay a fee to suspend your federal student loans. If this occurs, report it to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1\">Federal Trade Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"6\">\u003c/a>Car payments and Insurance\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you can't pay your auto loan, your lender may be able to work with you to provide some relief. Several major lenders have offered options to help people paying off a car or buying a new one, such as waiving late fees or allowing deferred payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/worried-about-making-your-auto-loan-payments-your-lender-may-have-options-to-help/\">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recommends\u003c/a> following these steps:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ask to change the date your payment is due\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Request a payment plan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ask for a payment extension/deferral\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Consider refinancing your auto loan\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For your auto insurance, you're likely eligible to receive a rebate or payment deferrals. 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