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"content": "\u003cp>Unlike workers in a lot of other states, many Californians have access to a state-run paid family leave program. Participation in the program is growing. But some lawmakers and others are concerned about who’s benefiting the most from paid leave — and who can’t afford to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa union pipe-fitter apprentice Blake Richardson was able to take a bit of paid leave after both of his sons were born. But it didn’t work out quite the way he planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the first one, I remember applying for it, and I think we didn’t really see a payment from it until about two and a half, three weeks in,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the payment arrived, Richardson soon realized it was too small to support his family and he quickly returned to work. His problem was common. In California paid leave is funded through a one percent tax on wages. It covers between 60 and 70 percent of salary. UC Berkeley Education and Public Policy Professor Bruce Fuller said that means people who make more, benefit more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s primarily upper middle class dads that are showing the steepest gain and interest in the program,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuller recently co-wrote \u003ca href=\"https://gse.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/paid_family_leave_in_california_-_march_2019_-_land_fuller.pdf\">a report on the state’s paid leave program\u003c/a>. The way the tax is structured, wages are only taxed up to about $118,000 a year. That means high wage earners end up effectively paying a lower tax rate while getting a bigger payout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Governor Gavin Newsom’s Chief of Staff Ann O’Leary has researched paid leave programs and says they need to be more fair to people who don’t make as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We literally have made no progress for low wage workers in terms of paid family leave and paid parental leave,” she said. “Too many women have been left out and low wage men as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration has proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/BudgetSummary/EarlyChildhood.pdf\">eventually expanding paid leave\u003c/a> to six months per new baby. It will also evaluate whether recent increases in how much workers receive on leave have helped low-income families use the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that same vein, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) is authoring a bill, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB196\">AB 196\u003c/a>, that would provide full wage replacement for eligible workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pass all these laws on accommodations for breastfeeding and child care,” she said. “But we know the best thing for a child and that mother is to stay home with the baby.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of Gonzalez’s bill is not yet know. Increases in the wage replacement could be paid for in a variety of ways, including lowering the reserve requirement for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/Quick_Statistics.htm\">Disability Insurance Fund\u003c/a> which currently contains \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/pdf/qsdi-Fund_Balance.pdf\">more than $3 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure from Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB135\">SB 135\u003c/a>, would expand the number of companies required to allow unpaid, job-protected leave.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jeanny Morris had a 1-year-old baby and a resume of dead-end retail jobs when she enrolled in the Marinello Schools of Beauty cosmetology program in 2012. She used her welfare benefits to pay for transportation to and from school where, she says, staff pressured her to take out student loans to pay for supplies they had previously promised to provide, such as books, drapes and combs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11729667' label='More Coverage of For-Profit Colleges']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes intended to prepare students to pass the state’s licensing exam were chaotic, Morris said, neglecting basic skills such as giving perms. Teachers often left students alone to watch YouTube videos. Fights broke out in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like [the movie] ‘Dangerous Minds,’ minus the good teacher,” the El Dorado Hills resident said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morris graduated from the 10-month program with more than $22,000 in student debt, but today is unemployed, saying she’s been unable to find work that pays more than minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made more money without my cosmetology license than I do with it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal regulation called the gainful employment rule aims to protect students like Morris from incurring large debts for career education that doesn’t pay off. But with the Trump administration vowing to repeal the Obama-era rule, California could soon put in place its own law requiring vocational programs to demonstrate that they can place students in jobs that pay well enough to cover their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco']‘The Trump administration has fueled the growth of predatory schools and abandoned safeguards. We have to protect our students by whatever means we can.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives of for-profit colleges, which would likely be most impacted by the first-of-its-kind legislation, decry it as impractical and say it would punish schools for results that are beyond their control. They’re fighting it and a related proposal to bar private colleges from deriving more than 85 percent of their tuition revenue from government financial aid programs. Both bills passed in the Assembly’s higher education committee Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gainful employment has been a failure,” said Robert Johnson, executive director of the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools. “It assumes everyone goes to work 40 hours a week, they don’t get into a car crash, they don’t go to jail. That’s crazy to put that [responsibility] back on the school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocates, however, see the proposals as necessary restraints on a for-profit career training industry that relies heavily on public money but has been plagued by poor outcomes and, in some cases, outright fraud. Students at for-profit colleges, which often focus on vocational training, are nearly four times as likely to default on a student loan as their counterparts at community colleges, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/a-crisis-in-student-loans-how-changes-in-the-characteristics-of-borrowers-and-in-the-institutions-they-attended-contributed-to-rising-loan-defaults/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brookings Institution analysis\u003c/a> of Department of Education data found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-gainful-employment-for-profit-colleges-veterans/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gainful employment rule\u003c/a> proposed by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, career education programs in which graduates spend more than 8 percent of their total earnings on student loans would not be able to increase the number of new California residents they enroll from year to year. If average student loan payments exceed 12 percent of graduates’ incomes, the program would be banned from enrolling Californians at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standards mirror those set by the Obama administration in 2014, when it threatened to withhold federal financial aid dollars from poor-performing programs. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/us/politics/betsy-devos-for-profit-colleges.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has said\u003c/a> she plans to scrap the rule and has stopped publishing schools’ debt-to-earnings data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration has fueled the growth of predatory schools and abandoned safeguards,” Chiu said. “We have to protect our students by whatever means we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Scandal-Plagued Schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While it’s unclear how many schools would be affected by Chiu’s bill, at least 266 California programs failed to pass the federal debt-to-earnings test in 2015, the last year for which data were released. All but four of the programs were at for-profit schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11739070\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/2018.08.06_Legislature_Robbie-Short_041-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11739070\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/2018.08.06_Legislature_Robbie-Short_041-600x400.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/2018.08.06_Legislature_Robbie-Short_041-600x400-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bills by Assemblyman David Chiu, seated, and Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, center, would tighten state regulations on for-profit colleges as the Trump administration rolls back Obama-era rules. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Marinello’s Moreno Valley campus, cosmetology graduates were earning an average of just under $11,000 per year and paying more than $1,300 of that in student loans. The school’s 56 campuses shut down in 2016 after federal regulators cut them off from receiving financial aid, finding the school had mismanaged the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of failing and near-failing programs also included criminal justice and medical assistant programs at Brightwood College, which abruptly closed its doors last year, displacing thousands of students nationwide. Argosy University, which shuttered last month amid revelations that it had withheld millions in students’ financial aid refunds to pay its expenses, had 24 programs on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presence of scandal-plagued schools on the list shows that gainful employment data is an early indicator for programs that may be at risk of imploding, said Debbie Cochrane, vice president of The Institute for College Access and Success, a bill sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have rules in place that would shut the bad actors down or force them to improve, there will be nothing to stop them from proliferating,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reputable schools had already begun using the federal gainful employment data to make improvements that would bring them into compliance, Cochrane said. “They were investing in career services, lowering tuition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='left' align='right' citation='Scott Govenar, lobbyist for the for-profit University of Phoenix, in a letter to state lawmakers']‘California’s gainful employment proposal “sets a dangerous precedent that could lead to a patchwork of state-based bills.”’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes, California could prove a test case for other states that want to develop their own gainful employment rules — a ripple effect that a lobbyist for the national, for-profit University of Phoenix described as a bureaucratic nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill “sets a dangerous precedent that could lead to a patchwork of state-based bills with different debt to earnings as well as different state data sources that will likely … create inconsistent results,” the lobbyist, Scott Govenar, wrote in a letter to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already collects information on the percentage of students in vocational programs who take out federal student loans. Under the proposed gainful employment rule, California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education would need to find out how much debt those students take on, then compare it with wage data from the state’s Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the bureau itself has struggled to enforce existing state laws, a recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-for-profit-colleges-investigation/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">investigation by CALmatters and the Sacramento Bee found\u003c/a>, and is not inspecting schools as often as it is legally required to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Veterans Call for Reform\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The gainful employment bill is one of seven introduced by Democratic lawmakers last month in a bid to tighten oversight of for-profit colleges. Veterans groups are lining up in support of another proposal that would limit the schools’ ability to rely on public funding, including students’ GI Bill benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law currently bars for-profit colleges from receiving more than 90 percent of their revenue in public financial aid. But that doesn’t include the generous benefits veteran students receive under the GI bill, which can include tuition, a housing allowance and money for books. Veteran and consumer advocates say the loophole gives for-profit colleges an incentive to target veterans with aggressive and sometimes misleading recruiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a cash cow,” said Ramond Curtis, state policy manager for Veterans Education Success, which is supporting similar bills in Oregon and Maine. “They’ve got a business model around recruiting and defrauding veterans. It has nothing to do with education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Ramond Curtis, state policy manager for Veterans Education Success']‘It’s a cash cow. They’ve got a business model around recruiting and defrauding veterans. It has nothing to do with education.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-16-00862-179.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A 2018 audit\u003c/a> by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of the Inspector General found that nearly $474 million was improperly awarded in a single year to for-profit colleges that either didn’t pass program reviews or had used deceptive advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By reducing the amount of financial aid colleges can receive to 85 percent of revenue and including state and GI Bill funds, the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1343\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legislation by Assemblywoman Susan Eggman\u003c/a>, D-Stockton, could force some schools to close. How many is in dispute: Johnson said about two-thirds of his organization’s membership could shut down if the legislation passes. A spokesperson for the University of Phoenix said it would likely close its brick-and-mortar California campuses, which enroll about 12,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank that supports the bill, estimates 90 percent of for-profit colleges either already comply with the requirements or come close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash shows how heavily some for-profit colleges depend on public funds. Lobbyists for the colleges argue that the low-income students they serve simply have no other way to pay tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apparently, our grave sin is that we enroll people who aren’t rich,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But proponents of the crackdown say schools that offer effective training would attract at least some investment from individuals and employers. 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That’s crazy to put that [responsibility] back on the school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocates, however, see the proposals as necessary restraints on a for-profit career training industry that relies heavily on public money but has been plagued by poor outcomes and, in some cases, outright fraud. Students at for-profit colleges, which often focus on vocational training, are nearly four times as likely to default on a student loan as their counterparts at community colleges, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/a-crisis-in-student-loans-how-changes-in-the-characteristics-of-borrowers-and-in-the-institutions-they-attended-contributed-to-rising-loan-defaults/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brookings Institution analysis\u003c/a> of Department of Education data found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-gainful-employment-for-profit-colleges-veterans/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gainful employment rule\u003c/a> proposed by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, career education programs in which graduates spend more than 8 percent of their total earnings on student loans would not be able to increase the number of new California residents they enroll from year to year. If average student loan payments exceed 12 percent of graduates’ incomes, the program would be banned from enrolling Californians at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standards mirror those set by the Obama administration in 2014, when it threatened to withhold federal financial aid dollars from poor-performing programs. 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The school’s 56 campuses shut down in 2016 after federal regulators cut them off from receiving financial aid, finding the school had mismanaged the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of failing and near-failing programs also included criminal justice and medical assistant programs at Brightwood College, which abruptly closed its doors last year, displacing thousands of students nationwide. 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In a novel use of California’s charter school rules, the district approved the elementary school’s charter and agreed to oversee it, even though the school was located about 20 miles west of Acton-Agua Dulce’s geographical boundary, within another district that had previously rejected the charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In return, Acton-Agua Dulce collected oversight fees of 3.5 percent of the school’s revenue, a formula that officials quickly replicated with more charter authorizations. By the 2015-16 school year, the district had approved and was collecting fees from a growing stable of charters, netting an additional $1.9 million in revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Albert Einstein elementary school program was ultimately shut down in 2018 because of concerns with its financial model and sustainability, \u003ca href=\"https://signalscv.com/2019/03/former-newhall-superintendent-seeks-charter-school-reform-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Santa Clarita Valley Signal reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this creative arrangement between district and charter became the kindling for a prolonged legislative and legal battle over reforms to California’s system for authorizing charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing claims that the district and the charter network improperly gamed the system, Democratic lawmakers are now redoubling efforts to tighten the rules and better prevent small, financially-strapped districts like Acton-Agua Dulce \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/audit-school-districts-reap-millions-oking-far-flung-charters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from boosting their budgets\u003c/a> by offering authorization and oversight to charter schools dozens, or even hundreds of miles from their supposed minders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue strikes close to home for the legislator behind this year’s proposal to clamp down on so-called “far-flung charters.” Democratic Assemblywoman Christy Smith of Santa Clarita sat on the board of the Newhall School District, where the Einstein charter school her district had rejected was located. Adding insult to injury, the school sat directly across from the district’s administration building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is the sponsor of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1507,\u003c/a> which would prevent charters from being located outside the jurisdiction of the district granting the charter. It’s one of several regulation proposals being \u003ca href=\"https://aedn.assembly.ca.gov/hearings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considered on Wednesday\u003c/a> by the state Assembly Education Committee that form the battle lines of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/charter-schools-california-legislation-politics-newsom-teachers-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this year’s faceoff\u003c/a> between charter advocates and teachers’ unions. Other measures would cap the total number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide and limit the ability of charters to appeal district petition denials to county and state authorizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In past sessions, the longstanding rivalry between those two politically powerful forces has typically ended more or less in a draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, the political calculus has shifted. Both the governor and the state’s top school administrator were elected with strong backing from teachers’ unions, which blame declining enrollment and funding, in part, on competition from the publicly funded, independently operated charters that are mostly staffed by non-union teachers. Already, Gov. 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One district, Saugus Union, denied four separate petitions from the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their rejections, the districts and counties raised similar concerns over the school’s financial viability and lack of specifics on how it planned to educate specific student groups, such as special needs students and English language learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We took a look at the finances — again, four different times — and nothing added up,” said Joan Lucid, a retired superintendent of the Saugus Union School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kept being told, ‘Well, we’re going to have a grant from someone. Someone’s going to give us some money. We’re thinking we’ll have this or we’ll have that.’ And when we actually did an analysis of the figures that were there, nothing added up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rabbi Mark Blazer, the founder of the Einstein charter network, downplayed the financial concerns raised by school districts in their charter application denials, and said he felt school districts in the Santa Clarita Valley were innately hostile toward charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tension, he said, is why he believes charter authorizations should be handled primarily at the state level, not through local school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we had one authorization, if there was a statewide authorization, we would’ve been fine,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2013, the Albert Einstein charter school network discovered Acton-Agua Dulce, a district where enrollment had been declining so inexorably for so long that, in one five-year stretch after the 2008 recession, one elementary school had lost more than half its student body. In a decade, overall enrollment had fallen by more than 40 percent, from 1,849 to 1,080 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blazer said he saw “a cooperative district” that “was willing to work with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-superintendent Brent Woodard had proposed a plan that called for Acton to “approve approximately 24 high quality, diverse charter schools” by summer 2016 as a way to bring in more students, according to a presentation to the school board. The district expected to earn more than $1.2 million in revenue as part of its multiyear plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Charter Schools Act of 1992, a governing school board can approve a location in another district if no suitable site is available in the chartering district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the new Einstein school opened, the Newhall school district \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1353279-first-amended-petition-for-writ-of-mandate-and.html\">sued\u003c/a> the Acton-Agua Dulce district and the charter school they oversaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, the role of charter school authorizer was fairly new territory for Acton-Agua Dulce. Up until 2012, the district had never authorized a charter school. But within three years, it had about twice as many students in charter schools than it did in non-charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Explosive Charter Growth in Acton-Agua Dulce\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MWIMp\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MWIMp/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" height=\"386\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’re doing it for the money!’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School boards and district officials pushing for tighter restrictions on charter locations contend that they have the responsibility for — and thus should have the ultimate authority over — the learning programs offered by public schools within their boundaries. Newhall alleged that Acton’s authorization had usurped its local control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have locally elected school board members who were supposedly making the determination for educational programs inside their district, and then some other district decides what’s best for that district,” said Marc Winger, a former Newhall superintendent who served when Smith sat on the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re 20 miles away, they know nothing about it, and on top of that, we have proof that they’re doing it for money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outrage mounted as more and more Acton charters popped up in communities outside its boundaries. Santa Clarita Valley school officials went to Sacramento and began lobbying. Meanwhile, other school districts also went to court over other far-flung charters: Suits were filed by Pasadena Unified and Los Angeles Unified, where Acton approved another charter school in the San Fernando Valley. And San Diego Unified sued the tiny, rural Alpine Union School District for authorizing another Albert Einstein charter within its boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commenting in a \u003ca href=\"https://scvnews.com/2014/05/19/albert-einstein-academy-refuses-saugus-districts-space-offer/\">May 2014 Santa Clarita Valley Signal article\u003c/a> about Albert Einstein Academy, Assemblywoman Smith, then a Newhall trustee, accused Acton of “engaging in pay-to-play practices,” called the Einstein authorization a “rubber stamp” and called on the state “to put an end to these abusive practices and waste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Am I opposed to this type of bad actor in the charter business? Absolutely!” Smith wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newhall eventually won its suit, and\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1263\"> Senate Bill 1263,\u003c/a> which would have required permission from the host districts for a remote authorization, passed both the state Senate and Assembly, but was vetoed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who had been a strong proponent of charter schools while he was mayor of Oakland, and helped start two in the city, expressed concerns that the bill’s language might uproot existing charters. Yet in his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1263\">veto message\u003c/a>, he acknowledged that “some districts and charter schools have gone against the spirit of the law and the exemption has instead become the rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early 2017, Brent Woodard, the superintendent who oversaw Acton’s rapid charter growth, had left the district, citing “\u003ca href=\"https://signalscv.com/2016/12/acton-agua-dulce-unified-superintendent-announces-resignation/\">multifarious reasons\u003c/a>,” the Santa Clarita Valley Signal reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in November 2017, the California State Auditor released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2016-141.pdf\">yearlong report,\u003c/a> at the request of the Legislature, that detailed school districts’ financial incentive to approve charter schools outside of their boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the audit noted that the district approved charter applications — including one for the Einstein school in Agua Dulce — that did not have the required number of signatures from prospective parents and teachers meant to gauge community support and demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s audit also found that the Einstein school “consistently failed to meet the district’s minimum (financial) reserve requirement,” putting it at risk for closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, Action had authorized some 15 charter schools, including three other Albert Einstein Academy schools — one based in Agua Dulce, and two others in Valencia and Beverly Hills, 50 miles southwest of the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, more than 14,000 charter school students are enrolled in the district, many of them in non-classroom based programs. Less than one-tenth of Acton’s total enrollment is in its traditional public school classrooms, and its charter enrollment total trails only San Diego and Los Angeles, the state’s two largest school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s directory of public schools shows that Acton has approved 27 separate charter schools since 2012, including some that appeared never to have actually operated before they closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State or local control?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By June 2018, all charter schools in California affiliated with Einstein charter school network \u003ca href=\"https://signalscv.com/2018/04/einstein-academy-announces-its-relinquishing-charter/\">had closed\u003c/a> as the district “began to question publicly in discussions with the board their financial status,” said Lawrence King, Acton’s new superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, as Winger, the former Newhall superintendent put it, “The financial problems that we predicted (in 2010) came true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, King describes the district’s approach to charters as “the farthest thing from a rubber stamp or a financial motivation.” Though he acknowledges that the district oversees a large number of charter schools, he points out that the district has not authorized a new charter since October 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Districts abused this loophole’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It is unknown exactly how many of the state’s 1,300-plus charter schools are based outside of their authorizing district’s boundaries. State auditors in a 2017 report that investigated the Acton-Agua Dulce district noted it was next to impossible to tally a count of far-flung charter schools, in part because the state does not require charter schools to list all of the locations of their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, state auditors identified at least 165 charter schools across California that appeared to be operating outside their authorizing district in 2016-17. Many are in small school districts. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Albert Einstein Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences charter school, part of a larger charter network of the same name, and the Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District at the northern edge of Los Angeles County answered each other’s prayers in 2013 when they partnered. In a novel use of California’s charter school rules, the district approved the elementary school’s charter and agreed to oversee it, even though the school was located about 20 miles west of Acton-Agua Dulce’s geographical boundary, within another district that had previously rejected the charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In return, Acton-Agua Dulce collected oversight fees of 3.5 percent of the school’s revenue, a formula that officials quickly replicated with more charter authorizations. By the 2015-16 school year, the district had approved and was collecting fees from a growing stable of charters, netting an additional $1.9 million in revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Albert Einstein elementary school program was ultimately shut down in 2018 because of concerns with its financial model and sustainability, \u003ca href=\"https://signalscv.com/2019/03/former-newhall-superintendent-seeks-charter-school-reform-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Santa Clarita Valley Signal reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this creative arrangement between district and charter became the kindling for a prolonged legislative and legal battle over reforms to California’s system for authorizing charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing claims that the district and the charter network improperly gamed the system, Democratic lawmakers are now redoubling efforts to tighten the rules and better prevent small, financially-strapped districts like Acton-Agua Dulce \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/audit-school-districts-reap-millions-oking-far-flung-charters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from boosting their budgets\u003c/a> by offering authorization and oversight to charter schools dozens, or even hundreds of miles from their supposed minders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue strikes close to home for the legislator behind this year’s proposal to clamp down on so-called “far-flung charters.” Democratic Assemblywoman Christy Smith of Santa Clarita sat on the board of the Newhall School District, where the Einstein charter school her district had rejected was located. Adding insult to injury, the school sat directly across from the district’s administration building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is the sponsor of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1507,\u003c/a> which would prevent charters from being located outside the jurisdiction of the district granting the charter. It’s one of several regulation proposals being \u003ca href=\"https://aedn.assembly.ca.gov/hearings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considered on Wednesday\u003c/a> by the state Assembly Education Committee that form the battle lines of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/charter-schools-california-legislation-politics-newsom-teachers-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this year’s faceoff\u003c/a> between charter advocates and teachers’ unions. Other measures would cap the total number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide and limit the ability of charters to appeal district petition denials to county and state authorizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In past sessions, the longstanding rivalry between those two politically powerful forces has typically ended more or less in a draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, the political calculus has shifted. Both the governor and the state’s top school administrator were elected with strong backing from teachers’ unions, which blame declining enrollment and funding, in part, on competition from the publicly funded, independently operated charters that are mostly staffed by non-union teachers. Already, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a fast-tracked law that requires charters to follow the same open meeting and conflict of interest laws as traditional schools in the public school system.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Nothing added up’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Between 2010 and 2014, six school districts — Newhall, Saugus Union, Ventura Unified, Los Angeles Unified, Moorpark Unified and Conejo Valley Unified — and the Los Angeles and Ventura County education offices each denied Einstein’s charter petition appeals, according to a Los Angeles county report, legislative testimony and local media reports. One district, Saugus Union, denied four separate petitions from the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their rejections, the districts and counties raised similar concerns over the school’s financial viability and lack of specifics on how it planned to educate specific student groups, such as special needs students and English language learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We took a look at the finances — again, four different times — and nothing added up,” said Joan Lucid, a retired superintendent of the Saugus Union School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kept being told, ‘Well, we’re going to have a grant from someone. Someone’s going to give us some money. We’re thinking we’ll have this or we’ll have that.’ And when we actually did an analysis of the figures that were there, nothing added up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rabbi Mark Blazer, the founder of the Einstein charter network, downplayed the financial concerns raised by school districts in their charter application denials, and said he felt school districts in the Santa Clarita Valley were innately hostile toward charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tension, he said, is why he believes charter authorizations should be handled primarily at the state level, not through local school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we had one authorization, if there was a statewide authorization, we would’ve been fine,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2013, the Albert Einstein charter school network discovered Acton-Agua Dulce, a district where enrollment had been declining so inexorably for so long that, in one five-year stretch after the 2008 recession, one elementary school had lost more than half its student body. In a decade, overall enrollment had fallen by more than 40 percent, from 1,849 to 1,080 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blazer said he saw “a cooperative district” that “was willing to work with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-superintendent Brent Woodard had proposed a plan that called for Acton to “approve approximately 24 high quality, diverse charter schools” by summer 2016 as a way to bring in more students, according to a presentation to the school board. The district expected to earn more than $1.2 million in revenue as part of its multiyear plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Charter Schools Act of 1992, a governing school board can approve a location in another district if no suitable site is available in the chartering district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the new Einstein school opened, the Newhall school district \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1353279-first-amended-petition-for-writ-of-mandate-and.html\">sued\u003c/a> the Acton-Agua Dulce district and the charter school they oversaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, the role of charter school authorizer was fairly new territory for Acton-Agua Dulce. Up until 2012, the district had never authorized a charter school. But within three years, it had about twice as many students in charter schools than it did in non-charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Explosive Charter Growth in Acton-Agua Dulce\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MWIMp\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MWIMp/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" height=\"386\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’re doing it for the money!’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School boards and district officials pushing for tighter restrictions on charter locations contend that they have the responsibility for — and thus should have the ultimate authority over — the learning programs offered by public schools within their boundaries. Newhall alleged that Acton’s authorization had usurped its local control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have locally elected school board members who were supposedly making the determination for educational programs inside their district, and then some other district decides what’s best for that district,” said Marc Winger, a former Newhall superintendent who served when Smith sat on the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re 20 miles away, they know nothing about it, and on top of that, we have proof that they’re doing it for money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outrage mounted as more and more Acton charters popped up in communities outside its boundaries. Santa Clarita Valley school officials went to Sacramento and began lobbying. Meanwhile, other school districts also went to court over other far-flung charters: Suits were filed by Pasadena Unified and Los Angeles Unified, where Acton approved another charter school in the San Fernando Valley. And San Diego Unified sued the tiny, rural Alpine Union School District for authorizing another Albert Einstein charter within its boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commenting in a \u003ca href=\"https://scvnews.com/2014/05/19/albert-einstein-academy-refuses-saugus-districts-space-offer/\">May 2014 Santa Clarita Valley Signal article\u003c/a> about Albert Einstein Academy, Assemblywoman Smith, then a Newhall trustee, accused Acton of “engaging in pay-to-play practices,” called the Einstein authorization a “rubber stamp” and called on the state “to put an end to these abusive practices and waste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Am I opposed to this type of bad actor in the charter business? Absolutely!” Smith wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newhall eventually won its suit, and\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1263\"> Senate Bill 1263,\u003c/a> which would have required permission from the host districts for a remote authorization, passed both the state Senate and Assembly, but was vetoed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who had been a strong proponent of charter schools while he was mayor of Oakland, and helped start two in the city, expressed concerns that the bill’s language might uproot existing charters. Yet in his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1263\">veto message\u003c/a>, he acknowledged that “some districts and charter schools have gone against the spirit of the law and the exemption has instead become the rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early 2017, Brent Woodard, the superintendent who oversaw Acton’s rapid charter growth, had left the district, citing “\u003ca href=\"https://signalscv.com/2016/12/acton-agua-dulce-unified-superintendent-announces-resignation/\">multifarious reasons\u003c/a>,” the Santa Clarita Valley Signal reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in November 2017, the California State Auditor released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2016-141.pdf\">yearlong report,\u003c/a> at the request of the Legislature, that detailed school districts’ financial incentive to approve charter schools outside of their boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the audit noted that the district approved charter applications — including one for the Einstein school in Agua Dulce — that did not have the required number of signatures from prospective parents and teachers meant to gauge community support and demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s audit also found that the Einstein school “consistently failed to meet the district’s minimum (financial) reserve requirement,” putting it at risk for closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, Action had authorized some 15 charter schools, including three other Albert Einstein Academy schools — one based in Agua Dulce, and two others in Valencia and Beverly Hills, 50 miles southwest of the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, more than 14,000 charter school students are enrolled in the district, many of them in non-classroom based programs. Less than one-tenth of Acton’s total enrollment is in its traditional public school classrooms, and its charter enrollment total trails only San Diego and Los Angeles, the state’s two largest school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s directory of public schools shows that Acton has approved 27 separate charter schools since 2012, including some that appeared never to have actually operated before they closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State or local control?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By June 2018, all charter schools in California affiliated with Einstein charter school network \u003ca href=\"https://signalscv.com/2018/04/einstein-academy-announces-its-relinquishing-charter/\">had closed\u003c/a> as the district “began to question publicly in discussions with the board their financial status,” said Lawrence King, Acton’s new superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, as Winger, the former Newhall superintendent put it, “The financial problems that we predicted (in 2010) came true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, King describes the district’s approach to charters as “the farthest thing from a rubber stamp or a financial motivation.” Though he acknowledges that the district oversees a large number of charter schools, he points out that the district has not authorized a new charter since October 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Districts abused this loophole’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It is unknown exactly how many of the state’s 1,300-plus charter schools are based outside of their authorizing district’s boundaries. State auditors in a 2017 report that investigated the Acton-Agua Dulce district noted it was next to impossible to tally a count of far-flung charter schools, in part because the state does not require charter schools to list all of the locations of their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, state auditors identified at least 165 charter schools across California that appeared to be operating outside their authorizing district in 2016-17. Many are in small school districts. 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"content": "\u003cp>To walk down Main Street in Merced is to see a revitalization boom: Historic theaters are getting facelifts, and new bars and restaurants are opening. Merced has experienced the top personal income growth of any metro area in the country for the past five years, mostly fueled by an expanding UC campus. This Central Valley city looks like a place of prosperity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, just a few blocks away are neighborhoods where families live doubled up, where stores with fresh produce are hard to find. For many Merced families it is tough to make ends meet. Forty-three percent of all babies and toddlers in this county live in poverty. Merced is booming, but it hasn’t reached everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Allison family: Bobbie Allison is raising her four young kids on her own. It’s a struggle, especially with her occasional job as a cashier at a 7-Eleven in Merced, where she makes about $11 an hour. They used to live in Merced but had to move to Atwater, a 30-minute drive north, to find an affordable rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Minimum wage just doesn’t cut it,” Allison said. “I just need something that pays more than minimum wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11738004 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-1200x720.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Bobbie Allison, balancing work and caring for her four children is a struggle, despite California’s safety net. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Allison’s efforts to find work to support her children, they are part of the more than one-thirds of all Merced youth who experience early childhood poverty. In the county, 43 percent of all children under the age of 3 — or nearly 4,800 youth — are impoverished, according to Kidsdata. Statewide, 285,000 families with children under 5 live in poverty, according to data from the Population Reference Bureau and Kidsdata that’s based on U.S. Census statistics for 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allison hates that her family is part of such statistics. She has been through the county’s welfare-to-work program twice. Now she’s tapped out. Allison said she has put in countless job applications and has heard back only from one employer, a large poultry plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest hope is Foster Farms, but that’s a very large commute,” Allison said. The pay would be $12 an hour, slightly more than 7-Eleven, and she would get more hours. Yet the commute to get to the plant and drop off her kids with a baby sitter would be about two hours each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the problem is that it is very difficult to get out of the poverty situation,” said Monika Grasley, director of a Merced nonprofit called Lifeline CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Grasley’s staff are welfare recipients, so she sees their daily life struggles up-close. She said many people are working hard in Merced to make sure the poorest kids and their families don’t fall into complete disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11738016\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-1200x738.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To find affordable Section 8 housing, Bobbie Allison moved 30 minutes outside Merced with her children. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Merced County has an amazing safety net for people that live in poverty,” Grasley said. Yet, she sometimes feels like those who care are so busy putting Band-Aids on the deep poverty problems that no one is thinking about helping families be self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being on the system and making a certain amount of resources — then to get beyond that, the jump is too big,” Grasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of living is too high, she said. With rent, child care and transportation costs consistently rising, Bobbie Allison needs a higher-paying job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major challenge with moving people out of poverty in Merced is that one-third of all the county’s adults do not have a high school diploma, which severely limits job options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasley said the system needs to focus on giving people practical skills training — not keeping them one step ahead of disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to create a transitional stepping system where folks can actually move forward and get the training that they need and have jobs available for folks,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get out of poverty, a family would need to be self-sustaining with an income that adequately covers housing, food, clothing and child care. Researchers at the California Budget and Policy Center estimate that would be between $45,000 and $50,000 a year for a family of four in Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison doesn’t think it’s possible for her, but the mayor of Merced, Mike Murphy, hopes it will be for her and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The factors that lead to childhood poverty are issues that a number of folks in Merced and in our state are working on,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows many of Merced’s residents don’t have the education or professional qualifications to get higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our economy is diversifying. Agriculture is a big part of our way of life and our economy but that’s changing, and the largest factor in that is the presence and the growth of the University of California, Merced,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='starting-blocks' label='The Starting Blocks Series']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus in Merced, which opened in 2005, is the newest expansion for the UC system, and many hope it will revitalize the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, as the campus expands, there will be construction jobs available, but Murphy’s vision is much bigger: The hope is that more kids will be inspired by the UC campus to go to college, and that would make them more employable, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction is going on everywhere in the city as UC Merced’s footprint expands. Opposite Murphy’s office in downtown Merced is a brand-new building. “This was a vacant lot for the longest time, and then the university bought this and constructed this building,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes the revitalization of downtown Merced — facelifts to historic buildings and theaters, new restaurants and bars — will bring in more students and tourists. The increased economic activity, he said, should trickle down to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One historic building in downtown Merced being renovated, The Tioga, was once a famous hotel that was later converted into apartments. Most recently, The Tioga offered 90 units of affordable housing, and the mayor confirmed the building was home to low-income residents — until the renovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was housing but it was not well-kept,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11738012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-1200x761.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Economic development like this site in Merced will eventually bring new, higher-paying jobs to the community. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The downside of UC Merced’s expansion has been displacement of the city’s poor, pushing them farther out of town. As students and university staff move in, housing is snapped up by those with higher incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison had to move from Merced to Atwater to find affordable housing and a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. With her job and child care still in Merced, life is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy is confident that his city will help lift up its poorest residents. He counts on the help of the state, too, which provides welfare benefits to Merced’s poorest families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and his administration have made ending poverty in California one of their priorities. “Child poverty is the overarching problem we’re trying to solve,” said Kris Perry, deputy assistant secretary in the state’s Health and Human Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry comes from the early childhood field and has seen the crisis up-close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Research has shown time and time again that it’s one thing to give parents services, it’s another thing to put cash in their pockets — that is one of the most important things you can do when you’re trying to figure out how to ameliorate poverty,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has proposed an increase to the cash aid that poor families get through the CalWORKS grant. But Perry said bringing down such high levels of poverty takes more: “This will take a really big push, not only from the state but also from the county of Merced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a blueprint for cutting child poverty in half in 10 years that involves new expenditures of close to $90 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group noted that the real cost of child poverty is around $1 trillion per year in lost revenues due to lower productivity in the workforce, poor health and higher crime. The plan lays out two possible plans that both involve increasing cash aid and bringing more people into the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unlikely that the Trump administration will move on these proposals, having already signaled cuts to domestic spending and anti-poverty programs in its next budget — which leaves the lot of California’s impoverished children squarely in the hands of state and local elected representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1200x819.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in mid-March 2019. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Bobbie Allison, she isn’t waiting for politicians to solve her problems. She heard back from Foster Farms and has gone through job orientation. Now she has to figure out how to manage her four young children, two of whom are still waitlisted for a preschool seat, so she can work the 9-5 shifts she has been offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will figure something out one way or the other. I always do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is an Early Childhood reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College. The fellowship is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>To walk down Main Street in Merced is to see a revitalization boom: Historic theaters are getting facelifts, and new bars and restaurants are opening. Merced has experienced the top personal income growth of any metro area in the country for the past five years, mostly fueled by an expanding UC campus. This Central Valley city looks like a place of prosperity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, just a few blocks away are neighborhoods where families live doubled up, where stores with fresh produce are hard to find. For many Merced families it is tough to make ends meet. Forty-three percent of all babies and toddlers in this county live in poverty. Merced is booming, but it hasn’t reached everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Allison family: Bobbie Allison is raising her four young kids on her own. It’s a struggle, especially with her occasional job as a cashier at a 7-Eleven in Merced, where she makes about $11 an hour. They used to live in Merced but had to move to Atwater, a 30-minute drive north, to find an affordable rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Minimum wage just doesn’t cut it,” Allison said. “I just need something that pays more than minimum wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11738004 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut-1200x720.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36408_Starting-Blocks-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Bobbie Allison, balancing work and caring for her four children is a struggle, despite California’s safety net. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Allison’s efforts to find work to support her children, they are part of the more than one-thirds of all Merced youth who experience early childhood poverty. In the county, 43 percent of all children under the age of 3 — or nearly 4,800 youth — are impoverished, according to Kidsdata. Statewide, 285,000 families with children under 5 live in poverty, according to data from the Population Reference Bureau and Kidsdata that’s based on U.S. Census statistics for 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allison hates that her family is part of such statistics. She has been through the county’s welfare-to-work program twice. Now she’s tapped out. Allison said she has put in countless job applications and has heard back only from one employer, a large poultry plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest hope is Foster Farms, but that’s a very large commute,” Allison said. The pay would be $12 an hour, slightly more than 7-Eleven, and she would get more hours. Yet the commute to get to the plant and drop off her kids with a baby sitter would be about two hours each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the problem is that it is very difficult to get out of the poverty situation,” said Monika Grasley, director of a Merced nonprofit called Lifeline CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Grasley’s staff are welfare recipients, so she sees their daily life struggles up-close. She said many people are working hard in Merced to make sure the poorest kids and their families don’t fall into complete disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11738016\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2-1200x738.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36313_Bobblie-Kids-Starting-Blocks-Housing-qut-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To find affordable Section 8 housing, Bobbie Allison moved 30 minutes outside Merced with her children. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Merced County has an amazing safety net for people that live in poverty,” Grasley said. Yet, she sometimes feels like those who care are so busy putting Band-Aids on the deep poverty problems that no one is thinking about helping families be self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being on the system and making a certain amount of resources — then to get beyond that, the jump is too big,” Grasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of living is too high, she said. With rent, child care and transportation costs consistently rising, Bobbie Allison needs a higher-paying job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major challenge with moving people out of poverty in Merced is that one-third of all the county’s adults do not have a high school diploma, which severely limits job options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasley said the system needs to focus on giving people practical skills training — not keeping them one step ahead of disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to create a transitional stepping system where folks can actually move forward and get the training that they need and have jobs available for folks,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get out of poverty, a family would need to be self-sustaining with an income that adequately covers housing, food, clothing and child care. Researchers at the California Budget and Policy Center estimate that would be between $45,000 and $50,000 a year for a family of four in Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison doesn’t think it’s possible for her, but the mayor of Merced, Mike Murphy, hopes it will be for her and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The factors that lead to childhood poverty are issues that a number of folks in Merced and in our state are working on,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows many of Merced’s residents don’t have the education or professional qualifications to get higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our economy is diversifying. Agriculture is a big part of our way of life and our economy but that’s changing, and the largest factor in that is the presence and the growth of the University of California, Merced,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The increased economic activity, he said, should trickle down to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One historic building in downtown Merced being renovated, The Tioga, was once a famous hotel that was later converted into apartments. Most recently, The Tioga offered 90 units of affordable housing, and the mayor confirmed the building was home to low-income residents — until the renovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was housing but it was not well-kept,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11738012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut-1200x761.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36312_UC-Merced-S-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Economic development like this site in Merced will eventually bring new, higher-paying jobs to the community. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The downside of UC Merced’s expansion has been displacement of the city’s poor, pushing them farther out of town. As students and university staff move in, housing is snapped up by those with higher incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison had to move from Merced to Atwater to find affordable housing and a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. With her job and child care still in Merced, life is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy is confident that his city will help lift up its poorest residents. He counts on the help of the state, too, which provides welfare benefits to Merced’s poorest families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and his administration have made ending poverty in California one of their priorities. “Child poverty is the overarching problem we’re trying to solve,” said Kris Perry, deputy assistant secretary in the state’s Health and Human Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry comes from the early childhood field and has seen the crisis up-close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Research has shown time and time again that it’s one thing to give parents services, it’s another thing to put cash in their pockets — that is one of the most important things you can do when you’re trying to figure out how to ameliorate poverty,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has proposed an increase to the cash aid that poor families get through the CalWORKS grant. But Perry said bringing down such high levels of poverty takes more: “This will take a really big push, not only from the state but also from the county of Merced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a blueprint for cutting child poverty in half in 10 years that involves new expenditures of close to $90 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group noted that the real cost of child poverty is around $1 trillion per year in lost revenues due to lower productivity in the workforce, poor health and higher crime. The plan lays out two possible plans that both involve increasing cash aid and bringing more people into the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unlikely that the Trump administration will move on these proposals, having already signaled cuts to domestic spending and anti-poverty programs in its next budget — which leaves the lot of California’s impoverished children squarely in the hands of state and local elected representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1200x819.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in mid-March 2019. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Bobbie Allison, she isn’t waiting for politicians to solve her problems. She heard back from Foster Farms and has gone through job orientation. Now she has to figure out how to manage her four young children, two of whom are still waitlisted for a preschool seat, so she can work the 9-5 shifts she has been offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will figure something out one way or the other. I always do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a community center in a low-income area of Merced, Monica Adrian of the county education office and a few teachers played games and held story time for parents and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='starting-blocks' label='The Starting Blocks Series']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they sang “The Wheels on the Bus,” they showed parents how to engage children beyond singing. “What color is the bus?” asked one teacher. “Yellow,” called out the chorus of kids. “And show me your hands, what do the tires do?” “They go round and round,” the children replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instantly, the kids made giant circles with their arms. Their faces shone with excitement as they looked around at peers and their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers were trying to model brain-building games and activities for parents since many of them are stuck at home with young children due to the drastic shortage of child care options for low-income families in the region. The playgroup is a gap filler of sorts, a once-a-week outing for children who cannot get a seat in preschool. Merced County in the Central Valley uses federal and state dollars to provide infant, toddler and preschool care, but the majority of children still miss out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of access to quality child care is felt hard in Merced County, where early childhood poverty is particularly acute. In the county, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">43 percent\u003c/a> of all children under the age of 3 — or nearly 4,800 youth — are impoverished, according to Kidsdata. Statewide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">285,000 families\u003c/a> with children under 5 live in poverty, according to data from the Population Reference Bureau and Kidsdata that’s based on U.S. Census statistics for 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11737744 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"Ayla, 9, Alorra, 3, Aden, 6, Alilith, 5, enjoy the trampoline their mother, Bobbie Allison, recently bought and assembled for them. Allison said she had to leave Merced to find a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. It's far from child care and work in Merced, but in Atwater her children have a backyard where the trampoline and several rescued factory chickens provide the main entertainment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-1200x762.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayla, 9, Alorra, 3, Aden, 6, and Alilith, 5, enjoy the trampoline their mother, Bobbie Allison, recently bought and assembled for them. Allison said she had to leave Merced for Atwater to find a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. Merced is where child care is, but in Atwater her children have a backyard where the trampoline and several rescued factory chickens provide the main entertainment. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Merced County, however, is booming: It is home to the newest UC school, it has experienced the top personal income growth of any region in the country over the last five years, and manufacturing is making a comeback, resulting in new jobs. What these economic indicators leave out is children like the ones attending the county-run playgroup. Merced is a place where prosperity sits alongside entrenched poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So officials like Adrian, of the Merced County Office of Education, are doing their best with limited resources. Adrian wants parents to know how easy it is to stimulate and engage their little ones and give them critical brain development skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that parents are getting support and education, so that they can be providing the same kinds of support and early experiences [as a preschool],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Bobbie Allison, a single mom, prepares dinner for her four children. Making her meager budget stretch to buy fresh food is a challenge. She relies on the milk and cheese the WIC program gives her for her youngest, Alorra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-1200x859.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bobbie Allison prepares dinner for her four children. Making her meager budget stretch to buy fresh food is a challenge. She relies on the milk and cheese the WIC program gives her for her youngest, Alorra. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limited Spots in Government-Subsidized Child Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are limited spots in government-subsidized child care programs in the county. In 2017, government-licensed child care slots were available for only 19 percent of children with working parents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alorra Allison, 3, and her sister, Alilith, 4, are on waiting lists for the highly coveted spots. “I’m hoping she’ll [Alorra] be able to get into a Head Start [program] next year,” said her mother, Bobbie Allison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Allison, a single mother raising four kids, solving the child care piece of her puzzle could dramatically alter her chances of finding better-paying work. Right now, the family lives in Atwater, a 30-minute drive from Merced in the Central Valley, because that’s where they can find an affordable rental — and a landlord who will accept their Section 8 housing voucher — amid the state’s housing crisis. But the child care is in Merced, as is Allison’s occasional work at 7-Eleven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so stressful as a parent, any parent, regardless of your economic situation, to balance child care and work,” said Adrian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737747\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-800x690.jpg\" alt=\"Aden, 6, with one of the family's several rescued factory chickens in Atwater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-800x690.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-160x138.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-1020x880.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-1200x1035.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aden, 6, with one of the family’s several rescued factory chickens in Atwater. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison feels lucky to have found a house with a yard in Atwater. And while they don’t have much else, her children have a trampoline and some chickens in the yard to provide some entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what they don’t always have is water and electricity. Those utility bills add up and no welfare program helps to cover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had to borrow money from family and friends about three times since we moved here to pay for [utilities] or to turn it back on,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allison can’t afford to buy any of her kids’ school photos, nor a new pair of shoes for 6-year-old Aden, who runs everywhere and wears out shoes constantly. Her children don’t do extracurricular activities since there is no money for dance classes or gymnastics. Allison doesn’t own a computer and can’t afford internet service, so when she applies for jobs she relies on the data plan that comes with her cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a computer, dance classes and new shoes are just nice frills. What Allison wants most is a stable job and quality child care for her two youngest children, both of whom are “ready for it,” she said. “They count, they (say) their colors, they know their ABCs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1200x819.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Mom Could Use a Break Every Now and Again’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality of being a single mom, holding down a job and looking after four kids with limited child care can be overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mom could use a break every now and again,” Allison told her kids with a chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents do need a break: Stress builds up and even a baby will absorb it, said David Lockridge, an expert in childhood trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nervous system is either set up to be soothed and to be calm or it is set up to be constantly on fight, flight or freeze,” said Lockridge, whose work is based on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/acestudy/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major study\u003c/a> done in the mid-1990s by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-800x632.jpg\" alt=\"Allison family in a group hug on a recent afternoon in the backyard of their rental home in Atwater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-800x632.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-1020x806.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-1200x948.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allison family in a group hug on a recent afternoon in the backyard of their rental home in Atwater. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The findings showed that childhood traumas lead to long-term and lingering bad health outcomes later in life. Lockridge’s organization in Merced, ACE Overcomers, works to educate people about childhood trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that poverty affects the stress level of the parents, that’s going to be felt by the children,” he said. “People are actually wearing out years earlier because their homeostasis, their thermometer, was ramped up too high because of early childhood adversity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem that babies and toddlers are too young and won’t remember their early impoverished years, but the impacts get stored in the body, Lockridge said. “Whether or not a child is cognitively aware of what is going on, their body keeps score.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison said she doesn’t feel good about the life that she is providing for her children, but she doesn’t know what more she can do. She hopes to figure out a job with Foster Farms in the area, get her children into Head Start, and begin to get ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is an Early Childhood reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College. The fellowship is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of access to quality child care is felt hard in Merced County, where early childhood poverty is particularly acute. In the county, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">43 percent\u003c/a> of all children under the age of 3 — or nearly 4,800 youth — are impoverished, according to Kidsdata. Statewide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">285,000 families\u003c/a> with children under 5 live in poverty, according to data from the Population Reference Bureau and Kidsdata that’s based on U.S. Census statistics for 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11737744 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"Ayla, 9, Alorra, 3, Aden, 6, Alilith, 5, enjoy the trampoline their mother, Bobbie Allison, recently bought and assembled for them. Allison said she had to leave Merced to find a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. It's far from child care and work in Merced, but in Atwater her children have a backyard where the trampoline and several rescued factory chickens provide the main entertainment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut-1200x762.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_trampoline-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayla, 9, Alorra, 3, Aden, 6, and Alilith, 5, enjoy the trampoline their mother, Bobbie Allison, recently bought and assembled for them. Allison said she had to leave Merced for Atwater to find a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 housing voucher. Merced is where child care is, but in Atwater her children have a backyard where the trampoline and several rescued factory chickens provide the main entertainment. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Merced County, however, is booming: It is home to the newest UC school, it has experienced the top personal income growth of any region in the country over the last five years, and manufacturing is making a comeback, resulting in new jobs. What these economic indicators leave out is children like the ones attending the county-run playgroup. Merced is a place where prosperity sits alongside entrenched poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So officials like Adrian, of the Merced County Office of Education, are doing their best with limited resources. Adrian wants parents to know how easy it is to stimulate and engage their little ones and give them critical brain development skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that parents are getting support and education, so that they can be providing the same kinds of support and early experiences [as a preschool],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Bobbie Allison, a single mom, prepares dinner for her four children. Making her meager budget stretch to buy fresh food is a challenge. She relies on the milk and cheese the WIC program gives her for her youngest, Alorra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut-1200x859.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_bobbie-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bobbie Allison prepares dinner for her four children. Making her meager budget stretch to buy fresh food is a challenge. She relies on the milk and cheese the WIC program gives her for her youngest, Alorra. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limited Spots in Government-Subsidized Child Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are limited spots in government-subsidized child care programs in the county. In 2017, government-licensed child care slots were available for only 19 percent of children with working parents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alorra Allison, 3, and her sister, Alilith, 4, are on waiting lists for the highly coveted spots. “I’m hoping she’ll [Alorra] be able to get into a Head Start [program] next year,” said her mother, Bobbie Allison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Allison, a single mother raising four kids, solving the child care piece of her puzzle could dramatically alter her chances of finding better-paying work. Right now, the family lives in Atwater, a 30-minute drive from Merced in the Central Valley, because that’s where they can find an affordable rental — and a landlord who will accept their Section 8 housing voucher — amid the state’s housing crisis. But the child care is in Merced, as is Allison’s occasional work at 7-Eleven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so stressful as a parent, any parent, regardless of your economic situation, to balance child care and work,” said Adrian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737747\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-800x690.jpg\" alt=\"Aden, 6, with one of the family's several rescued factory chickens in Atwater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-800x690.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-160x138.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-1020x880.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut-1200x1035.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_chicken-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aden, 6, with one of the family’s several rescued factory chickens in Atwater. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison feels lucky to have found a house with a yard in Atwater. And while they don’t have much else, her children have a trampoline and some chickens in the yard to provide some entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what they don’t always have is water and electricity. Those utility bills add up and no welfare program helps to cover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had to borrow money from family and friends about three times since we moved here to pay for [utilities] or to turn it back on,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allison can’t afford to buy any of her kids’ school photos, nor a new pair of shoes for 6-year-old Aden, who runs everywhere and wears out shoes constantly. Her children don’t do extracurricular activities since there is no money for dance classes or gymnastics. Allison doesn’t own a computer and can’t afford internet service, so when she applies for jobs she relies on the data plan that comes with her cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a computer, dance classes and new shoes are just nice frills. What Allison wants most is a stable job and quality child care for her two youngest children, both of whom are “ready for it,” she said. “They count, they (say) their colors, they know their ABCs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut-1200x819.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_Atwater-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Atwater in the Central Valley in early 2019. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Mom Could Use a Break Every Now and Again’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality of being a single mom, holding down a job and looking after four kids with limited child care can be overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mom could use a break every now and again,” Allison told her kids with a chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents do need a break: Stress builds up and even a baby will absorb it, said David Lockridge, an expert in childhood trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nervous system is either set up to be soothed and to be calm or it is set up to be constantly on fight, flight or freeze,” said Lockridge, whose work is based on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/acestudy/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major study\u003c/a> done in the mid-1990s by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-800x632.jpg\" alt=\"Allison family in a group hug on a recent afternoon in the backyard of their rental home in Atwater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-800x632.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-1020x806.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut-1200x948.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04042019_Without-Affordable-Child-Care-Escaping-Poverty-is-Tough_hug-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allison family in a group hug on a recent afternoon in the backyard of their rental home in Atwater. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The findings showed that childhood traumas lead to long-term and lingering bad health outcomes later in life. Lockridge’s organization in Merced, ACE Overcomers, works to educate people about childhood trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that poverty affects the stress level of the parents, that’s going to be felt by the children,” he said. “People are actually wearing out years earlier because their homeostasis, their thermometer, was ramped up too high because of early childhood adversity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem that babies and toddlers are too young and won’t remember their early impoverished years, but the impacts get stored in the body, Lockridge said. “Whether or not a child is cognitively aware of what is going on, their body keeps score.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobbie Allison said she doesn’t feel good about the life that she is providing for her children, but she doesn’t know what more she can do. She hopes to figure out a job with Foster Farms in the area, get her children into Head Start, and begin to get ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Norma Sandoval of Merced looks at her baby son Alex, and really stares into his eyes, she sees a wise, old man. His eyebrows have this way of zigging and then zagging, he sucks his lips into his mouth as if he is pondering the universe. He makes Sandoval laugh, because really, what could a four-month old be contemplating? For Sandoval, Alex is the best thing in her life, which is otherwise full of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many first-time moms, Sandoval has been on a steep learning curve caring for Alex. She gets a lot of help from her own mother, who has eight other children, and from the child care workers who care for Alex while she finishes high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval’s mother was a teen when she had her, and despite swearing she wouldn’t do the same, here she is at 17 with a four-month old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would see all these mothers so young and I would be like, oh my god they’re so stupid, how did they get pregnant so early,” Sandoval said. She laughed and added, “and then I got pregnant and now I’m like them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval knows what everyone thinks of her being a teen mom, but she is resolute — she wants the best for her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom’s determination might mean Alex will have a very bright future ahead of him, but right now he is part of a statistic that doesn’t bode well for his life chances: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=8727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">43 percent of all children under three years-old in Merced county live in poverty\u003c/a>. Sandoval doesn’t know a single person her age who isn’t struggling to make ends meet. It’s just how life is, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poverty has long been a political football, and the current polarized climate lays bare the tussle. At one end, child poverty has been called a “moral outrage” by California’s progressive governor, Gavin Newsom, who has vowed to end it. At the other end of the political spectrum, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has said poverty is a “state of mind,” echoing the Trump administration position that government aid is not the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades ago, Norma Sandoval was herself born into an impoverished family. Her father, an immigrant from Mexico, went off daily to work the fields and her mother ran an ad-hoc childcare service out of their tiny apartment, mostly to help other families so parents could go work in the fields while she looked after the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Starting Blocks Series\" tag=\"starting-blocks\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite both her parents working full-time much of her life, in her 17 years, Sandoval nor her parents have been able to climb above their challenging economic circumstances. So, like her mother before her, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/PovertyDeeperLook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">285,162 parents statewide\u003c/a>, she too now raises her baby while living below the federal poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval has all the usual concerns and anxieties of a 17-year-old, but on a recent Wednesday morning she was particularly worried about how many times Alex had pooped. Her brow was deeply creased as she discussed what to do with Emily Maltva, the lead teacher at the child development center that sits on the campus of Yosemite High School where Sandoval is a junior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He pooped like twice,” Sandoval told Maltva. “I changed him and then like 10 minutes later he pooped again.” Maltva reassured her that this was completely normal for a baby. Then Sandoval confessed that it wasn’t really the pooping that worried her. Diapers are expensive. Sandoval’s brow furrowed further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have like that money or nothing,” she confessed. “But I don’t think money makes you a good mother or not,” she said, declaring that she was a very good mother for Alex. Not having money just makes things harder, Sandoval said as she prepared Alex for the half-hour trudge to her boyfriend’s parents’ apartment where they are currently living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Child poverty in California is definitely a serious problem,” said Sara Kimberlin, senior policy analyst with the California Budget and Policy Center (CBPC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a problem that has gotten steadily worse over the years as the numbers of babies and children living in poverty has increased. The numbers are stark. One in five babies and toddlers in California were born into poverty in the last few years. That’s down from five years ago when one quarter of all babies statewide lived below the federal poverty line. In some places it is much higher, like Alex’s home, in Merced County, and the counties of Glenn, Colusa, Trinity and Tehama, where almost half of all babies born start life in impoverished families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is California’s Housing Crisis to Blame?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The earliest data on early childhood poverty came soon after standards for measuring poverty were first developed in the 1960s. By 1970 — one of the first years this data for young children was collected — about 14 percent of kids under five were poor in California. That number climbed steadily over the years. In 2012 it was 26 percent of all children statewide, according to Census and American Community Survey data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recent studies, like one from the San Francisco-based Center for the Next Generation, highlight the long-term economic threat posed by California’s high rates of childhood poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did the baby poverty numbers get so high? The answer has little to do with babies themselves. While the cost of diapers and infant formula has risen, Kimberlin points to macro-economic factors that have seen more families fall below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CBPC’s Kimberlin said California’s rising housing costs have perhaps been the biggest factor in pushing more families out from self sufficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From 2006 to 2016, rents in California rose by about three times as much median annual earnings for a full-time worker,” said Kimberlin. “That just creates a long-term problem where more and more families find themselves squeezed trying to cover their basic costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis hit, the number of California children under two-years-old in poverty climbed steeply, Kimberlin said. “The great recession definitely made things worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Sandoval, age four months, begins his day at a child care center with his mom, Norma, playing with one of his favorite toys. Norma attends Yosemite High School while Alex attends the child care center attached to the school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-1200x816.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Sandoval, age four months, begins his day at a child care center with his mom, Norma, playing with one of his favorite toys. Norma attends Yosemite High School while Alex attends the child care center attached to the school. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kimberlin said the recession’s impact can be traced to the spike in impoverished babies and toddlers. One of the most decisive budget cuts in the years of the recession was to subsidized child care that the state of California provided for low-income families. So add to the stagnating wages and high housing costs the “shrinking availability of affordable childcare,” and Kimberlin said and you have “a perfect storm that really made it difficult for families with children to make ends meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet during the years of the recession, many Californians suffered, and the worsening situation for the state’s youngest residents didn’t sound alarm bells. Many children who are now in elementary school were babies and toddlers during the recession. They missed out on quality early education as preschool seats disappeared after 2008, and parents had to figure out babysitting or drop out of the workforce. With less family income the nutrition they received in their critical early development years was likely poorer, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Turk of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health (LPFCH) wonders why the moral outrage at the increasing child poverty numbers isn’t more widespread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One in five babies being born into poverty in California is just absolutely unforgivable,” Turk said. During the recession years, one quarter of all babies were born into poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the demographics of the impoverished babies and toddlers has something to do with the lack of attention and action. In California it’s disproportionately babies of color that are born into poverty, something Turk said has nothing to do with the babies themselves. “Really this is about historical discriminatory practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year Kidsdata, a project of LPFCH, releases a report documenting the number of children in poverty. Turk said the high numbers of children of color in poverty comes from the discrimination their parents have suffered over the years. “For housing, for employment, the parents may be treated differently,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been well documented that African-Americans, Latinos and other immigrant groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/28/redlining-was-banned-50-years-ago-its-still-hurting-minorities-today/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f359268f5cfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have encountered redlining in housing\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banks not lending to them\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2017/09/16/job-discrimination-against-blacks-and-latinos-has-changed-little-or-none-in-25-years/#8f4a5fc51e3e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outright discrimination in the job market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turk said if a parent deals with discrimination when they try to rent a home, or in the job market, “there’s a trickle down effect [to] their babies and their children.” Unstable employment and housing “means then their babies are directly impacted by this,” Turk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Social Safety Net Helps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, poor families are not completely on their own. Experts estimate that the child poverty numbers would be almost 15 percent higher — around one in three kids — if it wasn’t for the social safety net, a tapestry of local, state and federal programs that give help to impoverished families. From Section 8 housing vouchers, to food stamps, cash aid and subsidized preschool, the welfare benefits in California are robust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is funding for providing healthful food, milk or other dairy products. There’s subsidies for parent to make sure they’re in housing for their children. There are child care subsidies,” Turk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said these programs are clearly helping families from falling into complete disaster. Norma Sandoval agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom she works, my dad works, my boyfriend’s parents they work, so no one would be able to watch the baby,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She gets MediCal for her baby and food stamps, both state and federally funded programs. Her child care is also free, paid to her high school child care center by the state of California. But she’s one of the lucky ones. \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/1-2-million-california-children-eligible-subsidized-child-care-not-receive-services-state-programs-2015/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a 2016 report\u003c/a> from the California Budget and Policy Center, six out of seven parents eligible for child care subsidies did not get them, and the waiting list can be more than 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if I didn’t have child care I wouldn’t make it,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-800x668.jpg\" alt=\"Merced County resident Norma Sandoval holds her four-month-old son, Alex.\" width=\"800\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-800x668.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-1020x852.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-1200x1003.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merced County resident Norma Sandoval holds her four-month-old son, Alex. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the subsidies she gets, Sandoval still can’t buy all the basics for her baby. So she leans on her family, her unofficial safety net. She doesn’t pay rent to her boyfriend’s parents, and her own parents buy her extra food and the baby’s diapers, which add up to a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the safety net that holds parents like Sandoval is working, it’s also a byzantine system to navigate. It’s something that Monika Grasley, president of a nonprofit community organization in Merced called Lifeline CDC, sees parents struggle with every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t understand why we have food stamps that allow us to buy junk food but do not provide diapers, it makes no sense to me,” Grasley said. “So what it encourages parents to do is sell their food stamps so they can purchase diapers for their babies.” And with less resources, parents tend to choose the cheapest food option for their children, which oftentimes have little nutritional value, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasley said there are also many issues that impoverished families deal with for which government help is limited or nonexistent. Many that she works with don’t have transportation. They struggle to find child care, and some don’t even have a cell phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about how do I survive, not how do I thrive,” Grasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norma Sandoval herself grew up with very little. But she wants better for her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Slowly slowly we’re going to learn, slowly we’re going to get that help that we need to get a better life for us and our kids,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, on top of everything else she is juggling, Sandoval shows up to Yosemite High School which has a special program for teen moms like her. She’s got big dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plan is to finish high school, go to college and be a nurse,” Sandoval said. She admits before getting pregnant she hated school and used to ditch classes often. Now she wouldn’t do that, “because I have a baby and I want a better life for him and me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: This story is part of KQED’s series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/starting-blocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starting Blocks\u003c/a>, which is examining the hurdles faced by California’s kids, especially those in low income families.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is an Early Childhood reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College, which is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite both her parents working full-time much of her life, in her 17 years, Sandoval nor her parents have been able to climb above their challenging economic circumstances. So, like her mother before her, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/PovertyDeeperLook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">285,162 parents statewide\u003c/a>, she too now raises her baby while living below the federal poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval has all the usual concerns and anxieties of a 17-year-old, but on a recent Wednesday morning she was particularly worried about how many times Alex had pooped. Her brow was deeply creased as she discussed what to do with Emily Maltva, the lead teacher at the child development center that sits on the campus of Yosemite High School where Sandoval is a junior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He pooped like twice,” Sandoval told Maltva. “I changed him and then like 10 minutes later he pooped again.” Maltva reassured her that this was completely normal for a baby. Then Sandoval confessed that it wasn’t really the pooping that worried her. Diapers are expensive. Sandoval’s brow furrowed further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have like that money or nothing,” she confessed. “But I don’t think money makes you a good mother or not,” she said, declaring that she was a very good mother for Alex. Not having money just makes things harder, Sandoval said as she prepared Alex for the half-hour trudge to her boyfriend’s parents’ apartment where they are currently living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Child poverty in California is definitely a serious problem,” said Sara Kimberlin, senior policy analyst with the California Budget and Policy Center (CBPC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a problem that has gotten steadily worse over the years as the numbers of babies and children living in poverty has increased. The numbers are stark. One in five babies and toddlers in California were born into poverty in the last few years. That’s down from five years ago when one quarter of all babies statewide lived below the federal poverty line. In some places it is much higher, like Alex’s home, in Merced County, and the counties of Glenn, Colusa, Trinity and Tehama, where almost half of all babies born start life in impoverished families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is California’s Housing Crisis to Blame?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The earliest data on early childhood poverty came soon after standards for measuring poverty were first developed in the 1960s. By 1970 — one of the first years this data for young children was collected — about 14 percent of kids under five were poor in California. That number climbed steadily over the years. In 2012 it was 26 percent of all children statewide, according to Census and American Community Survey data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recent studies, like one from the San Francisco-based Center for the Next Generation, highlight the long-term economic threat posed by California’s high rates of childhood poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did the baby poverty numbers get so high? The answer has little to do with babies themselves. While the cost of diapers and infant formula has risen, Kimberlin points to macro-economic factors that have seen more families fall below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CBPC’s Kimberlin said California’s rising housing costs have perhaps been the biggest factor in pushing more families out from self sufficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From 2006 to 2016, rents in California rose by about three times as much median annual earnings for a full-time worker,” said Kimberlin. “That just creates a long-term problem where more and more families find themselves squeezed trying to cover their basic costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis hit, the number of California children under two-years-old in poverty climbed steeply, Kimberlin said. “The great recession definitely made things worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Sandoval, age four months, begins his day at a child care center with his mom, Norma, playing with one of his favorite toys. Norma attends Yosemite High School while Alex attends the child care center attached to the school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile-1200x816.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Alex-And-Mom-Mobile.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Sandoval, age four months, begins his day at a child care center with his mom, Norma, playing with one of his favorite toys. Norma attends Yosemite High School while Alex attends the child care center attached to the school. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kimberlin said the recession’s impact can be traced to the spike in impoverished babies and toddlers. One of the most decisive budget cuts in the years of the recession was to subsidized child care that the state of California provided for low-income families. So add to the stagnating wages and high housing costs the “shrinking availability of affordable childcare,” and Kimberlin said and you have “a perfect storm that really made it difficult for families with children to make ends meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet during the years of the recession, many Californians suffered, and the worsening situation for the state’s youngest residents didn’t sound alarm bells. Many children who are now in elementary school were babies and toddlers during the recession. They missed out on quality early education as preschool seats disappeared after 2008, and parents had to figure out babysitting or drop out of the workforce. With less family income the nutrition they received in their critical early development years was likely poorer, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Turk of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health (LPFCH) wonders why the moral outrage at the increasing child poverty numbers isn’t more widespread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One in five babies being born into poverty in California is just absolutely unforgivable,” Turk said. During the recession years, one quarter of all babies were born into poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the demographics of the impoverished babies and toddlers has something to do with the lack of attention and action. In California it’s disproportionately babies of color that are born into poverty, something Turk said has nothing to do with the babies themselves. “Really this is about historical discriminatory practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year Kidsdata, a project of LPFCH, releases a report documenting the number of children in poverty. Turk said the high numbers of children of color in poverty comes from the discrimination their parents have suffered over the years. “For housing, for employment, the parents may be treated differently,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been well documented that African-Americans, Latinos and other immigrant groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/28/redlining-was-banned-50-years-ago-its-still-hurting-minorities-today/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f359268f5cfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have encountered redlining in housing\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banks not lending to them\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2017/09/16/job-discrimination-against-blacks-and-latinos-has-changed-little-or-none-in-25-years/#8f4a5fc51e3e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outright discrimination in the job market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turk said if a parent deals with discrimination when they try to rent a home, or in the job market, “there’s a trickle down effect [to] their babies and their children.” Unstable employment and housing “means then their babies are directly impacted by this,” Turk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Social Safety Net Helps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, poor families are not completely on their own. Experts estimate that the child poverty numbers would be almost 15 percent higher — around one in three kids — if it wasn’t for the social safety net, a tapestry of local, state and federal programs that give help to impoverished families. From Section 8 housing vouchers, to food stamps, cash aid and subsidized preschool, the welfare benefits in California are robust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is funding for providing healthful food, milk or other dairy products. There’s subsidies for parent to make sure they’re in housing for their children. There are child care subsidies,” Turk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said these programs are clearly helping families from falling into complete disaster. Norma Sandoval agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom she works, my dad works, my boyfriend’s parents they work, so no one would be able to watch the baby,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She gets MediCal for her baby and food stamps, both state and federally funded programs. Her child care is also free, paid to her high school child care center by the state of California. But she’s one of the lucky ones. \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/1-2-million-california-children-eligible-subsidized-child-care-not-receive-services-state-programs-2015/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a 2016 report\u003c/a> from the California Budget and Policy Center, six out of seven parents eligible for child care subsidies did not get them, and the waiting list can be more than 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if I didn’t have child care I wouldn’t make it,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-800x668.jpg\" alt=\"Merced County resident Norma Sandoval holds her four-month-old son, Alex.\" width=\"800\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-800x668.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-1020x852.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror-1200x1003.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Baby-in-Mirror.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merced County resident Norma Sandoval holds her four-month-old son, Alex. \u003ccite>(Matt Rogers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the subsidies she gets, Sandoval still can’t buy all the basics for her baby. So she leans on her family, her unofficial safety net. She doesn’t pay rent to her boyfriend’s parents, and her own parents buy her extra food and the baby’s diapers, which add up to a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the safety net that holds parents like Sandoval is working, it’s also a byzantine system to navigate. It’s something that Monika Grasley, president of a nonprofit community organization in Merced called Lifeline CDC, sees parents struggle with every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t understand why we have food stamps that allow us to buy junk food but do not provide diapers, it makes no sense to me,” Grasley said. “So what it encourages parents to do is sell their food stamps so they can purchase diapers for their babies.” And with less resources, parents tend to choose the cheapest food option for their children, which oftentimes have little nutritional value, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasley said there are also many issues that impoverished families deal with for which government help is limited or nonexistent. Many that she works with don’t have transportation. They struggle to find child care, and some don’t even have a cell phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about how do I survive, not how do I thrive,” Grasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norma Sandoval herself grew up with very little. But she wants better for her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Slowly slowly we’re going to learn, slowly we’re going to get that help that we need to get a better life for us and our kids,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, on top of everything else she is juggling, Sandoval shows up to Yosemite High School which has a special program for teen moms like her. She’s got big dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plan is to finish high school, go to college and be a nurse,” Sandoval said. She admits before getting pregnant she hated school and used to ditch classes often. 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