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However, I carry in my heart the many gifts she left me, including her positive outlook on aging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AARP published two studies in the research journal, The Gerontologist, regarding race, culture and aging. One study in \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/57/suppl_2/S138/3913399?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and another in \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/suppl_2/S178/3913377?searchresult=1\">Baltimore\u003c/a> evaluated participants’ aging expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The African-American participants in both studies were mostly women over the age of 60. Both African-American groups ranked high in optimism about aging. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/wp-content/uploads/8-3-12-US-of-Aging-Survey-Fact-Sheet-African-American-Findings-FINAL.pdf\">Other studies\u003c/a> have similar findings. According to the L.A. study, “African-American participants had the highest overall age-expectations followed in descending order by Latinos, Koreans and Chinese-Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What My Grandmother Taught Me About Aging\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reading these studies, I reflected on what I learned about aging from my grandmother. She was a Mississippi farm girl who moved to Oakland in the 1950s for better opportunities. A retired beautician and Avon representative, my grandmother went to the hair and nail salons regularly. She loved to laugh and could talk on the phone for hours. Sure she complained about occasional aches and stiffness. But for the most part, my grandmother was in good spirits about aging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never got this feeling from her that growing old meant life was over. If anything, she celebrated herself more as she aged. Some of us nicknamed her “The Princess” behind her back. The AARP studies left me with one question. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">M\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>y family packed into the black stretch limousine leaving CSU East Bay. We were heading to a restaurant after attending my mother’s college graduation. We turned on the music and popped the cheap bottle of complimentary champagne. My grandmother took two sips, then pumped her hands in the air like she was “raising the roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone is trying to get my grandma drunk!” I joked. “Give her the sparkling cider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her sassy Southern drawl, my grandmother responded, “Now look, I’m a grown woman.” She resumed enjoying the music, then diluted her champagne with cider. We all laughed. My grandmother, Angie Kesee, was near 80 and could still party in a limo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That moment from five years ago was one of my favorite memories of my grandmother. She died last summer from complications related to dementia. I just went through my first holiday season without her. I miss her deeply. However, I carry in my heart the many gifts she left me, including her positive outlook on aging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AARP published two studies in the research journal, The Gerontologist, regarding race, culture and aging. One study in \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/57/suppl_2/S138/3913399?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and another in \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/suppl_2/S178/3913377?searchresult=1\">Baltimore\u003c/a> evaluated participants’ aging expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The African-American participants in both studies were mostly women over the age of 60. Both African-American groups ranked high in optimism about aging. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/wp-content/uploads/8-3-12-US-of-Aging-Survey-Fact-Sheet-African-American-Findings-FINAL.pdf\">Other studies\u003c/a> have similar findings. According to the L.A. study, “African-American participants had the highest overall age-expectations followed in descending order by Latinos, Koreans and Chinese-Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What My Grandmother Taught Me About Aging\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reading these studies, I reflected on what I learned about aging from my grandmother. She was a Mississippi farm girl who moved to Oakland in the 1950s for better opportunities. A retired beautician and Avon representative, my grandmother went to the hair and nail salons regularly. She loved to laugh and could talk on the phone for hours. Sure she complained about occasional aches and stiffness. But for the most part, my grandmother was in good spirits about aging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never got this feeling from her that growing old meant life was over. If anything, she celebrated herself more as she aged. Some of us nicknamed her “The Princess” behind her back. The AARP studies left me with one question. Why are African Americans more optimistic about aging?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we age, we’re dealing less and less with racism in the world,” says Dr. Cheryl Johnson, a psychologist who has counseled and studied African-American seniors in the Bay Area. “When we retire we’re able to be more in our community and with our families, and less in the dominant culture’s work world. It’s emotionally and mentally taxing to navigate the white work environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young black men and women deal with racist stereotypes that label us as deviant or violent. Dr. Johnson says that African-Americans are perceived as less physically intimidating in their senior years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On each end of our life span is when we’re not a threat,” she adds. “We’re a cute little baby and when we’re old, we’re the sweet grandma that’s loving and caretaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another perk to aging for African Americans is our dark skin. As we say in the black community, “Black don’t crack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We visibly age more slowly because \u003ca href=\"https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mgmzva/a-dermatologist-explains-the-science-behind-the-black-dont-crack-stereotype\">melanin\u003c/a> acts like a sunscreen and protects us from UV rays. Dr. Johnson told me when her father passed away at 84, attendees at his funeral were shocked to learn his age. “They thought he was in his 70s,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Always Golden Years\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The golden years aren’t always golden. And not all African-Americans enjoy aging. Black seniors still face social hardships, including ageism, racism, health problems, poverty and hunger. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/news/resources-for-reporters/get-the-facts/senior-hunger-facts/\">National Council on Aging\u003c/a> reports that African-American seniors are more likely to be food insecure or lacking financial access to healthy, adequate food. About 17 percent of African-American seniors fall into this category. This correlates with a 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/research/public_policy_institute/econ_sec/2013/income-and-poverty-of-older-americans-AARP-ppi-econ-sec.pdf\">AARP study\u003c/a> that found 17 percent of African-Americans 65 years and over live in poverty compared to 6.8 percent of whites in the same age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28669_35420_1545254071050_5684642_n-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11638126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28669_35420_1545254071050_5684642_n-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28669_35420_1545254071050_5684642_n-qut.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28669_35420_1545254071050_5684642_n-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28669_35420_1545254071050_5684642_n-qut-240x360.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writer Brenda Usher-Carpino says African-American elders are elevated in the community. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brenda Usher-Carpino)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Writer and artist Brenda Usher-Carpino, 71, says there are highs and lows to aging. Growing up, she wanted gray hair because she found it “striking.” She remembers how black people in her family looked at aging favorably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You become an elder and elevated in the community,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she hopes she inherited her family’s longevity genes. She has a maternal aunt who is 105 and a paternal aunt still going at 94.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usher-Carpino says she has accepted not having the muscular and athletic body from her youth. She is happy to be in good health. But in the queer journal \u003ca href=\"http://www.foglifterjournal.com/issue-three\">Foglifter\u003c/a>, she wrote that a downside to aging is difficulty in finding love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that makes me sad is that the older I get, the more I feel like I’m never going to be in a relationship with somebody else again,” she says. “When you get old, you don’t stop needing to be loved. You don’t stop needing to have sex. That’s the lonely aspect to aging. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandmother decided not to seek another relationship after losing my grandfather. Dementia robbed her of remembering days of the week, but she never forgot she had it going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I can still get a boyfriend,” my grandmother occasionally reminded me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passing of my grandmother and other loved ones last year taught me that loss is a downside to aging. Yet, the elders in my family and community exemplify how resiliency is ageless. So I’ll go on, hopeful. As my grandmother would say, “Keep living baby. Keep living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>This post was written with the support of a journalism fellowship from New America Media, the Gerontological Society of America and the Commonwealth Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Rebeca Gonzalez grew up eating artichokes from her grandmother’s farm in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala. But for years after emigrating to the U.S., she did not feed them to her own kids because the spiky, fibrous vegetables were too expensive on this side of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she prepared meals at her family’s home in Garden Grove, Gonzalez would also omit avocados, a staple of Mexican cuisine that are often costly here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the prices and I said, ‘No, never mind,’ ” says Gonzalez, a 47-year-old child care worker who receives about $500 a month in food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those items are no longer out of reach for her family. Since enrolling last year in a program that rewards food stamp beneficiaries for buying more fresh produce, Gonzalez has regularly filled her shopping cart with the fruits and vegetables of her childhood — not only avocados and artichokes, but pomegranates, various types of squash and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participation in the program, called “Más Fresco” — “More Fresh” in English — gives Gonzalez an additional $40 a month to spend on produce, allowing her to broaden the palates of her three children, who were born in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The good thing is my family likes to try the new vegetables,” she says. “Now I can buy them because I have the extra money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California, San Diego is administering Más Fresco and studying its results with a $3.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has funded \u003ca href=\"https://nifa.usda.gov/resource/usda-awards-31-million-grants-help-snap-participants-afford-healthy-foods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar efforts\u003c/a> in other states, including Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and New Mexico. The dollars invested in those states have been aimed at inducing food stamp recipients to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/10/04/353522055/two-for-one-subsidies-help-food-stamp-recipients-buy-fresh-food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buy more produce at farmers markets\u003c/a> or at mobile markets that visit low-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Más Fresco is open to Southern Californians in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties who are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — the official name for food stamp benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the four-year program, like that of its counterparts in other states, is to improve diets and overall health by making fresh produce more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know food insecurity and, unfortunately, chronic disease go hand in hand,” says \u003ca href=\"https://ucsdcommunityhealth.org/about/team/joe-prickitt-ms-rd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Prickitt\u003c/a>, a UCSD dietitian who is senior director of Más Fresco. “For SNAP participants, there’s a real cost barrier to buying fruits and vegetables. They say they’re just too expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Más Fresco began in February 2017, it has enrolled 1,153 participants, who receive an average of $329 a month in food stamps and typically live in households of five or six people. Ninety percent of them are Latino, but adults from any ethnic background can join, provided they are willing to shop at a participating Northgate González Market — an Anaheim-based Latino grocery chain that is Más Fresco’s retail partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For every dollar’s worth of food stamps enrollees spend on fresh produce in a given month, they receive a one-to-one match — up to $10, $20 or $40 — that they can spend only on more fruits and vegetables. The UC-San Diego researchers who are studying the program varied the maximum reward amounts and assigned them randomly to participants to help determine the optimal dollar level that changes people’s dietary habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six participating Northgate stores — two in each of the three participating counties — use loyalty cards to tally produce purchases and distribute the credits. The amount of credit participants have earned and redeemed is itemized at the bottom of their receipts, and the credit carries over from month to month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research has shown that affordability is an obstacle to healthier eating for people of modest means. A \u003ca href=\"http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/12/e004277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013 study\u003c/a> by researchers at Harvard and Brown universities estimated that a healthful diet costs about $550 a year more per person than an unhealthy one. “For many low-income families, this additional cost represents a genuine barrier to healthier eating,” the authors concluded. “Yet, this daily price difference is trivial in comparison with the lifetime personal and societal financial burdens of diet-related chronic diseases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/SNAPFoodsTypicallyPurchased-Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that food stamp recipients spend a smaller percentage of their grocery budgets on fruits and vegetables than other Americans do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial incentives like the ones being tested in California can help narrow that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/HIP-Final-Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> of an incentive program in Massachusetts found that people on food stamps who got an extra 30 cents for every dollar they spent on fruits and vegetables consumed nearly a quarter-cup, or 26 percent, more fresh produce per day than recipients who did not get such an incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Más Fresco began to enroll a second round of up to 2,000 people, who will receive the incentive for one year. The current participants will continue in the program through June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prickitt says he hopes that even after their financial incentives end, participants will retain what they have learned about healthy eating and continue buying produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food policy experts note that many other factors can influence a family’s food choices, including lack of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If parents are working more than one job or children are in more than one school or activity, how do you teach the skills of how you can prepare food, even on a busy weeknight?” says Dr. Dean Sidelinger, a pediatrician and child-health medical officer for San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates for healthful diets have argued that the government should not only encourage people to buy healthier food, but also \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/advocacy-group-pushes-for-changes-in-u-s-food-assistance-program/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discourage unhealthful habits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2014 Health Affairs \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/06/forbidding-use-of-food-stamps-for-sweetened-drinks-could-reduce-obesity-diabetes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by Stanford University researchers showed that banning the purchase of soda with food stamps would reduce rates of obesity and diabetes, while a credit of 30 cents on the dollar for buying fresh produce alone would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, more than a dozen researchers from different universities urged SNAP to \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/advocacy-group-pushes-for-changes-in-u-s-food-assistance-program/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eliminate diet-related health disparities\u003c/a> among programs for low-income people. They noted, for example, that the federal food assistance program known as Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, excluded soda and candy, but that people could still buy those products with food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are generations of unhealthy people who are overweight with diabetes and hypertension,” says \u003ca href=\"https://sandiegofoodbank.org/persons/james-a-floros/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Floros\u003c/a>, president and CEO of the San Diego Food Bank, which has advertised the Más Fresco program to its clients. “That’s completely linked back to a poor diet, which is linked back to poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebeca Gonzalez, who moved to the U.S. at age 18, decided to overhaul her family’s eating habits after her husband, Javier Landeros, was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago. Instead of buying cookies, she now keeps chopped fruits and veggies in the fridge for snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she wants to instill the same healthy habits her grandmother passed on to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know she gave us good food,” Gonzalez says, “because she lived 105 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Kaiser Health News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, which publishes \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>California Healthline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation. KHN is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 Kaiser Health News. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Food+Stamp+Program+Makes+Fresh+Produce+More+Affordable&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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The dollars invested in those states have been aimed at inducing food stamp recipients to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/10/04/353522055/two-for-one-subsidies-help-food-stamp-recipients-buy-fresh-food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buy more produce at farmers markets\u003c/a> or at mobile markets that visit low-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Más Fresco is open to Southern Californians in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties who are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — the official name for food stamp benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the four-year program, like that of its counterparts in other states, is to improve diets and overall health by making fresh produce more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know food insecurity and, unfortunately, chronic disease go hand in hand,” says \u003ca href=\"https://ucsdcommunityhealth.org/about/team/joe-prickitt-ms-rd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Prickitt\u003c/a>, a UCSD dietitian who is senior director of Más Fresco. “For SNAP participants, there’s a real cost barrier to buying fruits and vegetables. They say they’re just too expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Más Fresco began in February 2017, it has enrolled 1,153 participants, who receive an average of $329 a month in food stamps and typically live in households of five or six people. Ninety percent of them are Latino, but adults from any ethnic background can join, provided they are willing to shop at a participating Northgate González Market — an Anaheim-based Latino grocery chain that is Más Fresco’s retail partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For every dollar’s worth of food stamps enrollees spend on fresh produce in a given month, they receive a one-to-one match — up to $10, $20 or $40 — that they can spend only on more fruits and vegetables. The UC-San Diego researchers who are studying the program varied the maximum reward amounts and assigned them randomly to participants to help determine the optimal dollar level that changes people’s dietary habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six participating Northgate stores — two in each of the three participating counties — use loyalty cards to tally produce purchases and distribute the credits. The amount of credit participants have earned and redeemed is itemized at the bottom of their receipts, and the credit carries over from month to month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research has shown that affordability is an obstacle to healthier eating for people of modest means. A \u003ca href=\"http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/12/e004277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013 study\u003c/a> by researchers at Harvard and Brown universities estimated that a healthful diet costs about $550 a year more per person than an unhealthy one. “For many low-income families, this additional cost represents a genuine barrier to healthier eating,” the authors concluded. “Yet, this daily price difference is trivial in comparison with the lifetime personal and societal financial burdens of diet-related chronic diseases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/SNAPFoodsTypicallyPurchased-Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that food stamp recipients spend a smaller percentage of their grocery budgets on fruits and vegetables than other Americans do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial incentives like the ones being tested in California can help narrow that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/HIP-Final-Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> of an incentive program in Massachusetts found that people on food stamps who got an extra 30 cents for every dollar they spent on fruits and vegetables consumed nearly a quarter-cup, or 26 percent, more fresh produce per day than recipients who did not get such an incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Más Fresco began to enroll a second round of up to 2,000 people, who will receive the incentive for one year. The current participants will continue in the program through June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prickitt says he hopes that even after their financial incentives end, participants will retain what they have learned about healthy eating and continue buying produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food policy experts note that many other factors can influence a family’s food choices, including lack of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If parents are working more than one job or children are in more than one school or activity, how do you teach the skills of how you can prepare food, even on a busy weeknight?” says Dr. Dean Sidelinger, a pediatrician and child-health medical officer for San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates for healthful diets have argued that the government should not only encourage people to buy healthier food, but also \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/advocacy-group-pushes-for-changes-in-u-s-food-assistance-program/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discourage unhealthful habits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2014 Health Affairs \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/06/forbidding-use-of-food-stamps-for-sweetened-drinks-could-reduce-obesity-diabetes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by Stanford University researchers showed that banning the purchase of soda with food stamps would reduce rates of obesity and diabetes, while a credit of 30 cents on the dollar for buying fresh produce alone would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, more than a dozen researchers from different universities urged SNAP to \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/advocacy-group-pushes-for-changes-in-u-s-food-assistance-program/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eliminate diet-related health disparities\u003c/a> among programs for low-income people. They noted, for example, that the federal food assistance program known as Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, excluded soda and candy, but that people could still buy those products with food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are generations of unhealthy people who are overweight with diabetes and hypertension,” says \u003ca href=\"https://sandiegofoodbank.org/persons/james-a-floros/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Floros\u003c/a>, president and CEO of the San Diego Food Bank, which has advertised the Más Fresco program to its clients. “That’s completely linked back to a poor diet, which is linked back to poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebeca Gonzalez, who moved to the U.S. at age 18, decided to overhaul her family’s eating habits after her husband, Javier Landeros, was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago. Instead of buying cookies, she now keeps chopped fruits and veggies in the fridge for snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she wants to instill the same healthy habits her grandmother passed on to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know she gave us good food,” Gonzalez says, “because she lived 105 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The United States appears to be in the midst of an unusually severe flu season, officials at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flu season started early, which is never a good sign, and the flu is already widespread throughout the country, the CDC’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm\">report\u003c/a> shows. Half of states are reporting especially intense flu activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are currently in the midst of a very active flu season with much of the nation experiencing widespread and intense activity,” CDC Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership.htm\">Brenda Fitzgerald\u003c/a> told reporters during a briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the latest available data, the United States could be experiencing one of the most severe flu seasons in years, possibly similar to the severe 2014-2015 flu season, officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flu is everywhere in the U.S. right now. There’s lots of flu in lots of places,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/resource-center/partners/flu-fighter-dan-jernigan.htm\">Dan Jernigan\u003c/a>, director of CDC’s influenza division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/map-influenza-season_custom-d71493400b36a6dd55decd73fe55e4e62260d8e2-s800-c85-800x444.png\" alt=\"Activity levels are based on the percent of outpatient visits in a state due to influenza-like illness (ILI) and are compared with the average percent of ILI visits that occur during weeks with little or no influenza virus circulation.\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641899\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/map-influenza-season_custom-d71493400b36a6dd55decd73fe55e4e62260d8e2-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/map-influenza-season_custom-d71493400b36a6dd55decd73fe55e4e62260d8e2-s800-c85-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/map-influenza-season_custom-d71493400b36a6dd55decd73fe55e4e62260d8e2-s800-c85-672x372.png 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/map-influenza-season_custom-d71493400b36a6dd55decd73fe55e4e62260d8e2-s800-c85-240x133.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/map-influenza-season_custom-d71493400b36a6dd55decd73fe55e4e62260d8e2-s800-c85-375x208.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/map-influenza-season_custom-d71493400b36a6dd55decd73fe55e4e62260d8e2-s800-c85-520x289.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activity levels are based on the percent of outpatient visits in a state due to influenza-like illness (ILI) and are compared with the average percent of ILI visits that occur during weeks with little or no influenza virus circulation. \u003ccite>(CDC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials cautioned, however, that the flu is very unpredictable. So there’s a chance the season could slow down quickly or end early, making it a more normal flu season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most recent data show that the proportion of people rushing to their doctors to get treated for the flu has already hit 5.8 percent, which is as high as that number gets during the peak of a really bad flu season, the CDC says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the rate at which Americans are being hospitalized for the flu almost doubled in the last week, to 22.7 for every 100,000 hospitalizations, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are two of the key ways the CDC monitors the severity of a flu season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, 20 children have died from the flu, compared with a total of 101 last season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2014-2015 flu season, 40 million Americans got the flu, 19 million people went to the doctor to get treated for the flu, and 970,000 people were hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials, cautioned, however, that the hospitalization rate for the flu so far this year is slightly below the 2014-2015 rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason the flu appears to be so severe is that it’s a strain known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/swineflu/h3n2v-cases.htm\">H3N2\u003c/a>. That strain tends to make more people sick, and the people who get the flu tend to get sicker. It’s especially dangerous for children and the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When H3N2 is prominent, we tend to have a season with far more hospitalizations and deaths,” Fitzgerald says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, the vaccine may only be about 30 percent effective against that strain. That is better than the 10 percent effectiveness reported in Australia, which has its flu season before the United States does and often predicts what will happen in this country.[contextly_sidebar id=”4MZOLJhzksjVcDA9mhei7F3omWh17aQ9″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, health officials are urging people to get vaccinated. Any protection is better than none. And the vaccine may end up being more effective, especially if other strains of the flu become more common. The vaccine is more effective against those other strains. 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"content": "\u003cp>For anyone who has taken a Lyft ride, the signature bell sound announcing the driver’s arrival might be the only sound they hear for the duration of the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ride-hailing can be a silent and somewhat awkward experience. But one Bay Area driver seeks to establish a human connection with everyone who steps into his white Prius, with some spontaneous entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-960x608.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-520x329.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashel Eldridge has a YouTube channel called the Legend of the Lyft Rapper. \u003ccite>(Ashel Eldridge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Ashel Eldridge calls himself The Lyft Rapper. He asks his passengers to come up with a topic and a style of music, and he makes up a song, on the spot, while driving to the destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riders often make goofy requests — asking for songs about deli sandwiches, pizza or popcorn — but Eldridge’s freestyle flows often gravitate into more complex commentary about social issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he loves it when riders request songs about immigration, gentrification or community health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDA1N2Y3gag\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elridge, who also goes by the emcee name Seasunz, says his mission is to elevate the consciousness of his community by helping people understand the forces that may be manipulating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His passengers say they’re startled at first when their Lyft driver begins rapping to them. But after the song, they admit the Lyft Rapper has turned a typically mundane trip into an unforgettable experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly I got to witness a very high level of creativity and being able to think on the spot,” said Tom Cheng, a UC Berkeley student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheng, who was on his way to take the GRE, asked Eldridge to rap about anxiety and uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Cheng was on his way to take the GRE when he met — and was sung to by — the Lyft Rapper. \u003ccite>(Allen Young/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think everyone has a very interesting life story, and [the Lyft Rapper] is definitely one that should be heard,” said Cheng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eldridge said he started rapping for his ride-hailing passengers a few years ago as a way to pass the time behind the wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he decided to turn it into a show for his YouTube channel called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDc1Jp-2EIDmYsA7q1r-9lQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Legend of the Lyft Rapper\u003c/a>. The beats are all copyright-free. After the song, passengers give their consent to be recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28833_12801194_10153934628935270_8627821588379718627_n-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eldridge grew up in Chicago, where his grandfather was a preacher. \u003ccite>(Ashel Eldridge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eldridge draws inspiration from his family, starting with his grandfather, who was a minister. As a boy growing up in Chicago, Eldridge would sit in church each week and listen to his grandfather preach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s poetry,” said Eldridge, describing his grandfather. “How he [starts] the sermon, how he ends it, what he says and doesn’t say, his pausing, how he raises his voice, all that I was attracted to. … It was the storytelling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eldridge said he hopes the stories he’s telling through his songs provide his passengers with a greater awareness of the forces that impact their stress and well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641441\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-800x373.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-800x373.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-160x75.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-1020x476.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-1180x551.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-960x448.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-240x112.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-375x175.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-520x243.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670.png 1665w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eldridge is part of a nonprofit called Hip Hop is Green, which uses live hip hop to raise awareness about community health. \u003ccite>(Ashel Eldridge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His activism extends beyond the driver’s seat: Eldridge is part of a nonprofit called Hip Hop is Green, which hosts dinners and uses live hip-hop to raise awareness about community health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he learned about the importance of healthy eating from his grandmother, who died of diabetes, and his aunt, Geraldine Eldridge, who was a former member of the Black Panther Party. The Panthers are known in part for creating an array of community social programs, including free breakfasts for school kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PJIt4vp1BU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eldridge believes that new forms of in-person performance art will naturally emerge as workers are replaced by machines, including drivers for ride-hailing companies as companies convert to driverless cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While machines can replace drivers, Eldridge argues that companies won’t be able to replace the human connection that people crave to avoid loneliness throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something inherently human to create art, which is based off the moment,” Eldridge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s based off of the bumps in the road, the left turn or right turn, what we ate today. What’s going in the news, what’s going on in people’s personal lives. All those things are playing into the music.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For anyone who has taken a Lyft ride, the signature bell sound announcing the driver’s arrival might be the only sound they hear for the duration of the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ride-hailing can be a silent and somewhat awkward experience. But one Bay Area driver seeks to establish a human connection with everyone who steps into his white Prius, with some spontaneous entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-960x608.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut-520x329.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28829_23120117_934141496736552_2567588069972442369_o28129-qut.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashel Eldridge has a YouTube channel called the Legend of the Lyft Rapper. \u003ccite>(Ashel Eldridge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Ashel Eldridge calls himself The Lyft Rapper. He asks his passengers to come up with a topic and a style of music, and he makes up a song, on the spot, while driving to the destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riders often make goofy requests — asking for songs about deli sandwiches, pizza or popcorn — but Eldridge’s freestyle flows often gravitate into more complex commentary about social issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he loves it when riders request songs about immigration, gentrification or community health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LDA1N2Y3gag'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LDA1N2Y3gag'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Elridge, who also goes by the emcee name Seasunz, says his mission is to elevate the consciousness of his community by helping people understand the forces that may be manipulating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His passengers say they’re startled at first when their Lyft driver begins rapping to them. But after the song, they admit the Lyft Rapper has turned a typically mundane trip into an unforgettable experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly I got to witness a very high level of creativity and being able to think on the spot,” said Tom Cheng, a UC Berkeley student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheng, who was on his way to take the GRE, asked Eldridge to rap about anxiety and uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28848_TomCheng2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Cheng was on his way to take the GRE when he met — and was sung to by — the Lyft Rapper. \u003ccite>(Allen Young/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think everyone has a very interesting life story, and [the Lyft Rapper] is definitely one that should be heard,” said Cheng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eldridge said he started rapping for his ride-hailing passengers a few years ago as a way to pass the time behind the wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he decided to turn it into a show for his YouTube channel called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDc1Jp-2EIDmYsA7q1r-9lQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Legend of the Lyft Rapper\u003c/a>. The beats are all copyright-free. 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As a boy growing up in Chicago, Eldridge would sit in church each week and listen to his grandfather preach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s poetry,” said Eldridge, describing his grandfather. “How he [starts] the sermon, how he ends it, what he says and doesn’t say, his pausing, how he raises his voice, all that I was attracted to. … It was the storytelling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eldridge said he hopes the stories he’s telling through his songs provide his passengers with a greater awareness of the forces that impact their stress and well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641441\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-800x373.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-800x373.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-160x75.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-1020x476.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-1180x551.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-960x448.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-240x112.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-375x175.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670-520x243.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28830_alt_670.png 1665w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eldridge is part of a nonprofit called Hip Hop is Green, which uses live hip hop to raise awareness about community health. \u003ccite>(Ashel Eldridge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His activism extends beyond the driver’s seat: Eldridge is part of a nonprofit called Hip Hop is Green, which hosts dinners and uses live hip-hop to raise awareness about community health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he learned about the importance of healthy eating from his grandmother, who died of diabetes, and his aunt, Geraldine Eldridge, who was a former member of the Black Panther Party. 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Another new law will prohibit university officials from cooperating with immigration officers. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An additional bill will bar law enforcement officials from detaining a crime victim or witness only because of an actual or suspected immigration violation, or turning them over to immigration authorities without a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CANNABIS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales of recreational marijuana will be legal under a 2016 voter initiative that created the nation’s biggest legal drug market.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it will be illegal to take and drive a under bill taking effect Jan. 1 that outlaws smoking and ingesting marijuana, just as it’s already unlawful for drivers or passengers to drink alcohol while driving. 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I can’t imagine that we would not make up the difference.’\u003ccite>Ed Hernandez, Calif. Senate Committee on Health chairman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California received $3.1 billion from the federal government for the program for the last federal fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. Those funds make up 88 percent of the costs, said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the Department of Finance. The state picks up the rest, about $734 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families in some other states have begun receiving notices that their insurance is going to end. But not in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California expanded Medi-Cal under the Affordable Care Act in 2014, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.medicaid.gov/CHIP/Downloads/CA/CACurrentStatePlan.pdf\">rolled\u003c/a> in nearly all CHIP recipients for administrative purposes. 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Palmer noted that the state could be on the hook for the entire $3.1 billion that Washington had been providing if California is required to maintain most of its current coverage, or the federal government could agree to pay half, as it does for regular Medi-Cal patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/f50abe23-4352-450a-84a0-68027585a343?src=embed\" title=\"Chidren's Health Insurance\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst-case scenario is that the kids still stay in Medi-Cal and we do the 50/50 match,” said Democratic state Sen. Ed Hernandez of Azusa, chairman of the Senate \u003ca href=\"http://shea.senate.ca.gov/\">Committee\u003c/a> on Health. “I believe we need to make sure these children are insured. 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"content": "\u003cp>Proponents of legal cannabis are definitely ready to celebrate this New Year’s. Starting Jan. 1, adult lovers of the plant will be able to start buying it in licensed retail outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can count among them Steve DeAngelo. He has long been a pioneer in the cannabis industry, though he couldn’t have guessed how things would turn out when he bought his first “nickel bag” of weed at age 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I rolled it into six joints. I sold each joint for a dollar,” he recalled. “I made $1 profit, a 20 percent margin on that transaction. I did it again until I could buy a whole ounce of cannabis. The ounces turned into pounds and the pounds turned into … well … lots bigger quantities than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/12/WattHarborside2way.mp3\" title=\"Harborside's Cannabis Pioneer Primed for New Customers\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS25526_GettyImages-542220918-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo is now the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shopharborside.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harborside\u003c/a> — one of the Bay Area’s largest medical cannabis dispensaries, with facilities in Oakland and San Jose. He’s also co-founder and president of \u003ca href=\"https://arcviewgroup.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The ArcView Group\u003c/a>, a cannabis investment network. A year ago, shortly after California voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana_Legalization_(2016)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> and legalized recreational marijuana use for adults, ArcView and \u003ca href=\"https://newfrontierdata.com/annualreport2017/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Frontier Data\u003c/a> estimated California’s legal marijuana market would reach $7.6 billion by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vibe at Harborside’s facility on Oakland’s Embarcadero is a cross between nature museum and Apple Store. Its storeroom is big and open, with lots of light, lots of wood and lots of plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his signature braided ponytails, DeAngelo chats up what he calls “my phenomenal, super knowledgeable, ultra-friendly, smiling staff,” as well as the security crew outside that makes sure nobody enters without a medical marijuana card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been open for 11 years and not one incident,” DeAngelo said. He explained that security has been important because marijuana has been a cash business. Cannabis is still illegal under federal law and there are restrictions on the use of credit cards. “We have a high-value product. We have a lot of people coming in and out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Come Jan. 1, that medical marijuana card won’t really be necessary for entry here. Only an ID proving you’re 21 years old will be required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a day of joy and celebration for millions and millions of people,” DeAngelo said. “Every single dispensary in the state of California that is able to serve adults is going to have lines around the block because there is a huge pent-up desire among people to be able to purchase cannabis legally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harborside is preparing for this significant change. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.shopharborside.com/adult-use-regs.html\">FAQ page\u003c/a> tells visitors to its site that on Jan. 1, the Oakland location will be open at 6 a.m., with the first 100 in line receiving gifts and prizes. DeAngelo talked about a “try-it-before-you-buy-it” offer he’s ready to make to “customers,” whom until now he has called “patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as an industry insider, DeAngelo knows of other oncoming changes he believes many people — and local governments — aren’t ready for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This change is going to be pretty traumatic and disruptive for the existing cannabis industry,” he warned. “There are a lot of new requirements that many people, especially small growers, aren’t really even aware of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/29/confusion-coming-with-state-marijuana-regulations/\">confusion\u003c/a> will surround licenses for growers, distributors and sellers, he said. DeAngelo pointed out that before sellers or dispensaries can apply for a state license to serve adult users, they must have a license issued from their local jurisdiction, and many local jurisdictions haven’t issued those licenses yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We estimate that only 30 percent of jurisdictions are going to be ready to allow adults to come into dispensaries legally on Jan. 1,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A significant change the cannabis consumer should brace for: taxes. Since California is legalizing marijuana, it’s natural the state will take its cut. The state levy will be 15 percent, but local governments are piling on, too. Medical cannabis patients will be able to get some \u003ca href=\"https://www.boe.ca.gov/news/2016/92-16-G.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exemptions\u003c/a> from sales taxes, but they will need a medical marijuana identification card issued by the California Department of Public Health, not just a doctor’s note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harborside is currently offering discounts on products and doesn’t fail to point this out. One of the first banners on its website admonishes customers to “STOCK UP BEFORE TAXES GO UP.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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