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"content": "\u003cp>California cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/amazon\">Amazon\u003c/a> $5.9 million for violating labor protections that aim to reduce worker injuries in the warehousing industry, state regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2024/2024-46.html\">announced\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The online retail giant failed to give thousands of employees at two Inland Empire fulfillment centers written descriptions of production quotas, as required by state law, according to citations issued by the California Labor Commissioner’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uncertainty among workers about how fast they are expected to complete tasks fuels a competitive and hurried environment that increases the risk of repetitive motion and other injuries, according to safety advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower said the citations resulted from an industry-wide operation in which her agency communicated with more than 1,000 employers and gave those out of compliance with the quota law an opportunity to correct their practices. But Amazon “declined to engage,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not playing a game of ‘gotcha’ here,” García-Brower said during a press conference where she stood alongside Amazon warehouse workers who aided the investigation. “Workers have unfortunately been exposed to unsafe working conditions in the violations of [the law], which only reiterates the importance for workers to understand you’re not alone.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2022, California has \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB701\">required\u003c/a> large warehouse employers to provide workers with information about quotas and the potential consequences if they fail to meet them. Under the regulation, work speeds must not be dangerous or prevent employees from using the bathroom or taking meal and rest breaks.[aside postID=news_11989975 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TacoBellWalkOutSanJose01-1020x765.jpg']New York, Oregon and Washington are among the states that have since adopted similar regulations. A federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4260/text?s=1&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Warehouse+Worker+protection+Act%22%7D\">bill\u003c/a> introduced in Congress last month would extend the protections to warehouse workers nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators with the California Labor Commissioner found violations at the Amazon.com Services LLC facilities in Moreno Valley and Redlands, impacting nearly 3,000 workers between October 2023 and March 2024. The agency assessed penalties against the company in May for $4.7 million and $1.2 million for the two warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon has appealed the proposed penalties and is awaiting a hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is, we don’t have fixed quotas. At Amazon, individual performance is evaluated over a long period of time in relation to how the entire site’s team is performing,” Amazon spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel said in a statement. “Employees can — and are encouraged to — review their performance whenever they wish. They can always talk to a manager if they’re having trouble finding the information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García-Brower countered that Amazon’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/amazon-fulfillment-centers-employee-safety-well-being\">peer-to-peer evaluation\u003c/a> system is “exactly the kind of system that the warehouse quotas law was put in place to prevent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, then-CEO Jeff Bezos announced Amazon would try to become the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/update-on-our-vision-to-be-earths-best-employer-and-earths-safest-place-to-work\">Earth’s Safest Place to Work\u003c/a>.” The latest California citations, however, signal the company is falling short of its goal, Mindy Acevedo, an attorney with the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They keep pushing for faster and faster delivery windows, and they have not actually addressed what’s causing such high injury rates,” said Acevedo, who helped workers alert state authorities about quota concerns. “If they’re not complying with just the notices, then what does that say about their compliance with the rest of the law? Like, can we really trust that their quotas are safe enough?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown that workers at Amazon, the largest warehouse employer nationwide, face more dangerous conditions than other companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Amazon employed 35% of all U.S. warehouse workers but was responsible for 53% of all serious injuries in the industry, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://thesoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SOC_Same-Day-Injury-Report-May-2024.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a> by the Strategic Organizing Center. The union-backed center found that injury levels spiked during the company’s busiest periods, such as Prime Day and the holiday shopping season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the press conference on Tuesday, Amazon employees said they worked in fear of losing their jobs if they didn’t move fast enough but were often unaware of what production targets they were expected to meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are humans. Our safety is important to us. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>New York, Oregon and Washington are among the states that have since adopted similar regulations. A federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4260/text?s=1&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Warehouse+Worker+protection+Act%22%7D\">bill\u003c/a> introduced in Congress last month would extend the protections to warehouse workers nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators with the California Labor Commissioner found violations at the Amazon.com Services LLC facilities in Moreno Valley and Redlands, impacting nearly 3,000 workers between October 2023 and March 2024. The agency assessed penalties against the company in May for $4.7 million and $1.2 million for the two warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon has appealed the proposed penalties and is awaiting a hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is, we don’t have fixed quotas. At Amazon, individual performance is evaluated over a long period of time in relation to how the entire site’s team is performing,” Amazon spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel said in a statement. “Employees can — and are encouraged to — review their performance whenever they wish. They can always talk to a manager if they’re having trouble finding the information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García-Brower countered that Amazon’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/amazon-fulfillment-centers-employee-safety-well-being\">peer-to-peer evaluation\u003c/a> system is “exactly the kind of system that the warehouse quotas law was put in place to prevent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, then-CEO Jeff Bezos announced Amazon would try to become the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/update-on-our-vision-to-be-earths-best-employer-and-earths-safest-place-to-work\">Earth’s Safest Place to Work\u003c/a>.” The latest California citations, however, signal the company is falling short of its goal, Mindy Acevedo, an attorney with the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They keep pushing for faster and faster delivery windows, and they have not actually addressed what’s causing such high injury rates,” said Acevedo, who helped workers alert state authorities about quota concerns. “If they’re not complying with just the notices, then what does that say about their compliance with the rest of the law? Like, can we really trust that their quotas are safe enough?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown that workers at Amazon, the largest warehouse employer nationwide, face more dangerous conditions than other companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Amazon employed 35% of all U.S. warehouse workers but was responsible for 53% of all serious injuries in the industry, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://thesoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SOC_Same-Day-Injury-Report-May-2024.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a> by the Strategic Organizing Center. The union-backed center found that injury levels spiked during the company’s busiest periods, such as Prime Day and the holiday shopping season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the press conference on Tuesday, Amazon employees said they worked in fear of losing their jobs if they didn’t move fast enough but were often unaware of what production targets they were expected to meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are humans. Our safety is important to us. But they treat us like one of their robots,” said Nannette Plascencia, 46, who works at the Moreno Valley facility moving large amounts of freight. “These citations give me hope that it is possible to hold Amazon accountable to the people who make their corporation so successful.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Employees at a Taco Bell and KFC location in San José walked off the job Wednesday afternoon, protesting high kitchen temperatures and other unsafe working conditions ahead of a vote by state regulators on indoor heat protections for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff members at the joint franchise allege that they have been forced to work in unsafe conditions, including 90-degree kitchen temperatures and a potential gas leak, and faced shift reductions since California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985277/impact-of-california-fast-food-worker-wage-increase-still-too-early-to-gauge\">increased fast-food workers’ minimum wage\u003c/a> to $20 an hour in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees Marcelo Tagle and Daisy Arrano alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, that the kitchen temperature reached 90 degrees this month. This is the third complaint the workers have lodged with Cal/OSHA over excessive heat since last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kitchen can get so hot that [Tagle] feels suffocated like he cannot get enough air, and [Arrano] feels like it is often hotter inside than it is outside,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It alleges that management told employees the air conditioner in KFC and Taco Bell’s shared kitchen was repaired following the initial complaints, but temperatures remain high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Taco Bell told KQED that “the safety and well-being of team members is our top priority at Taco Bell. The franchise owner and operator of this location is currently looking into and working to address any team member concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989997\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989997\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/tacobell2.png\" alt='Two workers at a Taco Bell-KFC stand outside the location protesting unsafe working conditions. They hold signs that read, \"Huelga, Huelga, Huela\" and \"On Strike.\"' width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/tacobell2.png 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/tacobell2-160x213.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcelo Tagle (left) and Daisy Arrano (right) stand outside of a Taco Bell-KFC location in San José on June 12. The workers allege that unsafe heat conditions have made them feel suffocated and resulted in visibly red and clammy skin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the California Fast Food Workers Union)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The franchise owners, Harman Management Corp. and KFC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout comes as a California safety board is \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/documents/agendaJun2024.pdf\">set to vote\u003c/a> next week on new indoor heat illness prevention rules. The standards from the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board would prohibit workplaces from having indoor temperatures exceeding 87 degrees Fahrenheit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These standards have been expected since 2019, when state workplace safety regulators were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983396/prison-workers-excluded-from-indoor-heat-protections-by-california-regulators\">supposed\u003c/a> to propose a set of rules to protect tens of thousands of workers at risk of heat hazards at warehouses, restaurants, packing houses and other indoor workplaces. They missed that deadline, and the debate surrounding the rules has continued for five years since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the board was expected to finally vote on protections, but it delayed a decision due to last-minute cost estimates. If the standards pass on June 20, workplaces will be required to maintain lower indoor temperatures and provide cooling zones when temperatures are over 82 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ask those officials to vote in support of those rules because they’re very important for us workers,” Tagle told KQED. “A lot of people think working in a restaurant is easy, but it’s a job that’s difficult, and you often have to deal with uncomfortable temperatures because owners don’t put enough attention into the problems in their companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat illness, when the body struggles to cope with high temperatures, can lead to cramps, exhaustion, dizziness, stroke and even death. In California, at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">seven workers died\u003c/a> from causes related to indoor heat exposure between 2010 and 2017.[aside postID=news_11989885 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240322-INDOOR-HEAT-GETTY-02-KQED-1020x623.jpg']The Taco Bell employees are requesting repairs to the store’s air conditioner, cooling and water breaks, and training to prevent, identify, and respond to heat-related illnesses. Their complaint also calls on Cal/OSHA to investigate a potential gas leak the employees have detected, citing a smell of gas near the kitchen’s water heater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also calling for their work hours to be restored. A second complaint against the same location was filed Monday with San José’s Office of Equality Assurance, accusing KFC of reducing employees’ hours while hiring four new workers. Tagle and Luis Mendez allege that their hours have been cut since shortly after California raised the statewide \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1228\">minimum wage\u003c/a> for fast-food workers to $20 an hour in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected our incomes would go up,” the complaint states. “Management cut our schedules and illegally gave our hours to newly-hired workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tagle said that his schedule has been gradually reduced from 25 hours a week to just one day a week since April, while four new employees have recently been hired at the location. 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"content": "\u003cp>Families of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities say Gov. Gavin Newsom is reneging on a scheduled raise for the workers who care for their loved ones, and advocates warn of potential lawsuits if disability services become harder to get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing California’s budget deficit, the Democratic governor wants to save around \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-02/asm-budget-sub-2-agenda-feb-28-2024-dds-and-dor.pdf#page=20\">$613 million\u003c/a> in state funds by delaying pay increases for a year for about 150,000 disability care workers. The state will forgo an additional $408 million in Medicaid reimbursements, reducing funding by over $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers say this decision will increase staff turnover and vacancies, leaving thousands of children and adults with disabilities without critical services at home and in residential facilities. Disability advocates warn it could violate the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/transparency/laws-regulations/lanterman-act-and-related-laws/\">Lanterman Act\u003c/a>, California’s landmark law that says the state must provide services and resources to people with disabilities and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is “breaking a promise,” says Felisa Strickland, 60, who has been searching for more than a year for a day program for her 23-year-old daughter, Lily, who has autism and cerebral palsy. “It’s creating a lot of physical and mental health problems for people, and it’s a lot of undue stress on aging parent caregivers like myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disability care workers, known as direct support professionals, provide daily, hands-on caregiving to help children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as autism, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy, remain independent and integrated into their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/03/01/governor-newsom-proclaims-developmental-disabilities-awareness-month/\">more than 400,000 people\u003c/a> with disabilities need accommodation, and this population, along with seniors, is increasing. It’s unclear how big the worker shortage is because the state hasn’t released workforce data. As the demand for these workers grows generally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CaliforniaDirectCareWorkforce.pdf\">experts predict\u003c/a> a shortage of between 600,000 and 3.2 million direct care workers by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say California pays most providers from \u003ca href=\"https://thearcca.org/direct-support-professionals-overlooked-for-wage-increases-by-governor-and-legislature/#:~:text=Meanwhile%2C%20California's%20100%2C000%20direct%20support,without%20any%20guarantee%20of%20increases\">$16 to $20 an hour\u003c/a>, which meets the state’s minimum wage but falls short of what some economists consider a \u003ca href=\"https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/06\">living wage\u003c/a>. In 2021, the state committed to raising wages after identifying a \u003ca href=\"https://www.burnshealthpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DDS-Vendor-Rate-Study-Report.pdf#=page8\">$1.8 billion gap\u003c/a> between the rates received by nonprofits that contract with the state to provide care and the rates deemed adequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11980719,news_11984163\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Thus far, the state has provided around half that total, most of which has gone to raising wages and benefits. Workers had been expecting one more increase of $2–$4 an hour in July until Newsom proposed a delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, nonprofits say California has made it harder to compete for workers after raising wages in other service and health industries. Newsom approved a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Fast-Food-Minimum-Wage-FAQ.htm\">$20 minimum wage for fast-food workers\u003c/a> that went into effect in April, and he struck a deal last year with unions and hospitals to begin raising health care workers’ wages to a minimum of \u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/california-lawmakers-approve-nation-leading-25-minimum-wage-for-health-workers/\">$25 an hour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Zegri says Taco Bell would pay him more than the $19 an hour he makes as a disability care worker in a supervisory position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every paycheck, it’s a discussion at home about what bills we need to prioritize and whether it’s time to start looking for work that pays more,” says Zegri, who works a second job as a musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2083px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984827\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-scaled.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a hat, glasses and a pink shirt holds a sign in from of her that reads \"Reject the Guts\" with a stop sign at the bottom.' width=\"2083\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-scaled.jpg 2083w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-800x983.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-1020x1254.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-160x197.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-1250x1536.jpg 1250w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-1666x2048.jpg 1666w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-1920x2360.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2083px) 100vw, 2083px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed delaying pay increases for disability care workers, but advocates warn it would increase turnover and vacancies, leaving thousands of people with disabilities without critical services at home and in residential facilities. \u003ccite>(Vanessa G. Sánchez/KFF Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom wants \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\">to preserve key health initiatives\u003c/a>, including the state expansion of Medi-Cal to low-income immigrants regardless of legal status, and CalAIM, an ambitious $12 billion experiment to transform Medi-Cal into both a health insurer and a social services provider. However, the rate delay for providing disability care is the largest savings in the Health and Human Services budget as Newsom and legislative leaders look to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-04/newsom-and-democratic-lawmakers-release-17b-plan-to-cut-budget\">cuts, delays, and shifts in funding\u003c/a> to close a deficit estimated between \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-21/newsom-and-lawmakers-announce-plan-to-cut-at-least-12-billion-off-deficit-with-no-details\">$38 billion\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4850?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email\">$73 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of legislators from both parties are asking Newsom and legislative leaders to preserve the increase. Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen, a Democrat from Elk Grove, signed a \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/04/Disability-Service-Provider-Rate-Budget-Request-Letter.pdf\">letter supporting the raise\u003c/a>. Although lawmakers are negotiating with the administration, she says reversing the decision to delay the pay boost is unlikely. Everybody “has to take a hit somewhere,” Nguyen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krystyne McComb, a spokesperson for the Department of Developmental Services, says that even though the state would lose federal matching funds this year, it would resume drawing funds when it reinstates the plan in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department did not respond to questions about how it plans to retain workers and fill vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal risks a collapse of the disability service system, which would violate the Lanterman Act and make the state vulnerable to lawsuits, says Jordan Lindsey, executive director of the Arc of California, a statewide disability rights advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families say the state has already fallen short of the services they need. Strickland quit her job to care for Lily, the Santa Barbara mother, says. “It’s not reasonable to expect someone to care for somebody else 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily graduated from high school and, in 2022, completed a program that prepares youth with disabilities to transition into adult life. She had been looking forward to joining a day program to make new friends but has yet to find a spot. And due to a shortage of workers, Lily receives only four hours a week at home with a provider, who is paid around $16 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lily hangs out with the provider, her demeanor changes to the happy person she used to be, Strickland says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system is already in crisis,” she says. “There are tons and tons of people that are sitting at home because there’s nowhere for them to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us\">KFF Health News\u003c/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/about-us\">KFF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Thus far, the state has provided around half that total, most of which has gone to raising wages and benefits. Workers had been expecting one more increase of $2–$4 an hour in July until Newsom proposed a delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, nonprofits say California has made it harder to compete for workers after raising wages in other service and health industries. Newsom approved a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Fast-Food-Minimum-Wage-FAQ.htm\">$20 minimum wage for fast-food workers\u003c/a> that went into effect in April, and he struck a deal last year with unions and hospitals to begin raising health care workers’ wages to a minimum of \u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/california-lawmakers-approve-nation-leading-25-minimum-wage-for-health-workers/\">$25 an hour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Zegri says Taco Bell would pay him more than the $19 an hour he makes as a disability care worker in a supervisory position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every paycheck, it’s a discussion at home about what bills we need to prioritize and whether it’s time to start looking for work that pays more,” says Zegri, who works a second job as a musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2083px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984827\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-scaled.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a hat, glasses and a pink shirt holds a sign in from of her that reads \"Reject the Guts\" with a stop sign at the bottom.' width=\"2083\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-scaled.jpg 2083w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-800x983.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-1020x1254.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-160x197.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-1250x1536.jpg 1250w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-1666x2048.jpg 1666w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Sign_01-1920x2360.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2083px) 100vw, 2083px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed delaying pay increases for disability care workers, but advocates warn it would increase turnover and vacancies, leaving thousands of people with disabilities without critical services at home and in residential facilities. \u003ccite>(Vanessa G. Sánchez/KFF Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom wants \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\">to preserve key health initiatives\u003c/a>, including the state expansion of Medi-Cal to low-income immigrants regardless of legal status, and CalAIM, an ambitious $12 billion experiment to transform Medi-Cal into both a health insurer and a social services provider. However, the rate delay for providing disability care is the largest savings in the Health and Human Services budget as Newsom and legislative leaders look to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-04/newsom-and-democratic-lawmakers-release-17b-plan-to-cut-budget\">cuts, delays, and shifts in funding\u003c/a> to close a deficit estimated between \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-21/newsom-and-lawmakers-announce-plan-to-cut-at-least-12-billion-off-deficit-with-no-details\">$38 billion\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4850?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email\">$73 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of legislators from both parties are asking Newsom and legislative leaders to preserve the increase. Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen, a Democrat from Elk Grove, signed a \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/04/Disability-Service-Provider-Rate-Budget-Request-Letter.pdf\">letter supporting the raise\u003c/a>. Although lawmakers are negotiating with the administration, she says reversing the decision to delay the pay boost is unlikely. Everybody “has to take a hit somewhere,” Nguyen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krystyne McComb, a spokesperson for the Department of Developmental Services, says that even though the state would lose federal matching funds this year, it would resume drawing funds when it reinstates the plan in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department did not respond to questions about how it plans to retain workers and fill vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal risks a collapse of the disability service system, which would violate the Lanterman Act and make the state vulnerable to lawsuits, says Jordan Lindsey, executive director of the Arc of California, a statewide disability rights advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families say the state has already fallen short of the services they need. Strickland quit her job to care for Lily, the Santa Barbara mother, says. “It’s not reasonable to expect someone to care for somebody else 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily graduated from high school and, in 2022, completed a program that prepares youth with disabilities to transition into adult life. She had been looking forward to joining a day program to make new friends but has yet to find a spot. 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But it just feels like this strike is the only option that we have left.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives said noncompetitive compensation and lack of career growth opportunities contribute to the recruitment of new talent and retention problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, at UCSF Health, one of the nation’s top-ranked ophthalmology hospitals, some patients wait six to eight months for an appointment, said Dr. Nicole Mercho, 29, who works at the hospital’s Glaucoma Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF optometrists, who see about 12 to 14 patients daily on a regular schedule, manage a variety of ocular diseases and eye infections in patients often referred to the hospital from as far away as Eureka, Modesto and Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love our patients. But it just feels like this strike is the only option that we have left,” Mercho said. “It’s very frustrating that UC has not really bargained in good faith. They’re kind of dragging their feet. They are not taking it seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for UC told KQED that each location would handle notifications for impacted patients by the work stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January 2023, the union and UC representatives have met nearly a dozen times to work through issues to integrate the newly represented optometrists into an existing contract agreement that covers 6,500 \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-units/hx/index.html\">health care professional unit members\u003c/a>. But that process has come to a standstill, according to union representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the union took its case to the California Public Employment Relations Board, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L11KqGzxt-O3EyMGns9lsuOCYjhqiPB5/view\">accusing\u003c/a> the university of violations that include refusing to disclose “essential” data for bargaining on wages and withholding contact information for new unit members for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior shot of the UCSF Health building in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of UCSF Health, one of the nation’s top-ranked ophthalmology hospitals. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matias Campos, executive vice president at UPTE CWA Local 9119, said UC’s conduct undermines collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have an interest in making sure that large public employers like the University of California are conducting themselves in an appropriate manner under labor law,” Campos told KQED. “And if a public institution like the university, that is subject to oversight, [and a] recipient of a tremendous amount of public resources, thinks that they can get away with committing unfair labor practices at the bargaining table, that should be alarming to every worker in California and every taxpayer in California.”[aside tag=\"uc-strike,union\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC responded by filing its own unfair labor practice \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24409156/2024-02-02-uc-v-upte-perb.pdf\">charges\u003c/a> against UPTE CWA Local 9119 last week, rejecting the union’s accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university argued that it is simply insisting that the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that already applies to healthcare professionals in the unit also apply to optometrists and that this week’s work stoppage represented an “unlawful pre-impasse strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California respects the rights of employees to organize and is committed to good-faith bargaining across our system with unions, including the University Professional and Technical Employees Union (UPTE),” said a UC spokesperson in a statement. “The University believes the planned UPTE action related to this limited group of employees is an unlawful exercise by the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson added that the two parties had reached tentative agreements on incentive compensation and other issues during the bargaining process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6503388&GUID=DC407C91-30E9-4BAA-A937-277B932BD49A\">a resolution\u003c/a>, sponsored by six members, supporting UPTE-CWA Local 9119 optometrists and urging UC’s administration to swiftly reach an agreement that recognizes the issues raised by the employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Optometrists plan to hold a picket line outside UC medical centers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Davis. 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They want better wages and benefits, and to push for better working conditions without fear of retaliation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Over the past year, staff across every department have gathered to discuss what we love about our work and how our current workplace conditions negatively impact our ability to carry out Compass’ mission,” a letter signed by dozens of staff and sent to Erica Kisch, chief executive officer at Compass, on Friday reads. \u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Juliana Dunn, bilingual after-school program and after-care case manager, Compass Clara House\"]‘Most of us can’t afford to live in the city where we help people find housing.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Employees said management declined to voluntarily recognize their membership in the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 29 during a tense town hall on Friday. According to workers who spoke with KQED, Kisch told staff that a letter with a list of names was not sufficient to show unionizing was not an “actual, uncoerced decision on the part of each employee listed.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even without that recognition, workers will soon move forward with a ballot election. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Most of us can’t afford to live in the city where we help people find housing,” said Juliana Dunn, who works with kids at Compass Clara House, a transitional housing program. “And we want to have a voice in that. We want to have a seat at the negotiation table. 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They were worried at the time that hybrid work options were ending, and staff would need to return to work in person five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jobs at Compass can be both fast-paced and high stress, with workers having difficult conversations over the phone, sometimes in multiple languages at once. That can make working in the office uncomfortable, and can place an unnecessary burden on Compass staff already struggling to balance child care on top of the secondary trauma of working with families experiencing homelessness. Staff at Compass are also overwhelmingly people of color. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dunn said that when staff attempted to share their concerns about equity, workers felt dismissed. They said the work environment became even more uncomfortable because of microaggressions, like glares on the job or suggestions that they were replaceable. 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Staff at Hotel Whitcomb, one of the city’s hotels housing vulnerable residents under the state’s Project Roomkey program, have described the mental health toll on the job of\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910405/staff-at-a-san-francisco-hotel-battle-an-overdose-crisis\">regularly\u003c/a> responding to drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melani Gomez is currently a case manager at Compass. She previously was a client for about seven years. She relied on services through SF HOME, a program with Compass that provides rental subsidies and case management. Gomez said she went through about seven case managers during the years she used their services. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You have to tell your story again and again and again. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Rosalba Contreras delivered her second baby, she had a C-section, a surgical procedure where an incision is made in the abdomen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contreras developed a serious infection from the procedure, which required a second surgery and kept her hospitalized for about six weeks. She was unable to see her baby for most of that time, she said. \u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rosalba Contreras\"]‘I wish I would have been able to afford to stay home longer and bond with my baby, because bonding with her for only two weeks was really nothing.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, after being released from the hospital, Contreras made the heart-wrenching decision to spend just two weeks at home with her daughter before going back to work as an administrative assistant. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She remembers crying almost daily at the office.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was very, very traumatic. I was really heartbroken,” said Contreras, 37, who lives in San Bernardino County. “I wish I would have been able to afford to stay home longer and bond with my baby, because bonding with her for only two weeks was really nothing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11918459 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940-e1656626199105-800x722.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a baby while sitting on a couch in front of a cake with a lit candle on top.\" width=\"800\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940-e1656626199105-800x722.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940-e1656626199105-1020x921.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940-e1656626199105-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940-e1656626199105.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosalba Contreras celebrates the first birthday of her daughter Jayleen at home in Fontana, on Dec. 27, 2018. 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Her leave benefits offered less than $1,500 per month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The people who make less money get less pay from the benefits because it’s based on a percentage of what you make,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A bid by lawmakers to significantly increase the California State Disability Insurance and Paid Family Leave wage replacement benefits, especially for lower-income Californians, was left out of the \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/Floor%20Report%20of%20the%202022-23%20Budget%20%28Updated%20June%2027%2C%202022%29.pdf\">$300 billion state \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spending plan\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders unveiled Sunday.\u003c/span>[aside postID=\"news_11914051,news_11913643\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The budget item would have boosted benefits to between 70% and 90% of a person’s wages, offering the higher rate to employees making under $57,000 per year. The plan could still be implemented as part of trailer bills, according to legislative staffers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An alternative path for the proposal to reach the governor’s desk is a bill that would raise the programs’ wage replacement rates starting in 2025\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB951\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 951\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, by State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles), is advancing in the Legislature.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Without any budgetary or legislative action, hundreds of thousands of Californians each year are set to see their \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/Disability/Disability_Insurance\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">disability\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/disability/paid-family-leave/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">family leave\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> payments shrink to just 55% of their wages in 2023, due to the sunset of a bill that raised the rates to current levels. That will make the critical benefits even less affordable for lower-income workers, according to Kristin Schumacher, a policy analyst with the California Budget and Policy Center, a nonpartisan research nonprofit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Gov. Newsom has pitched himself as a champion of paid family leave, but he has ignored the largest barrier California workers face in taking time off — the benefit levels,” said Schumacher. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Newsom could still opt to do the right thing and increase the payment rates for paid family leave and the disability insurance program.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most California workers pay for these programs through a mandatory SDI payroll tax of 1.1%. The state uses those funds to provide workers partial wage replacement, which aims to ensure the SDI fund stays solvent. Workers are eligible to receive \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a maximum of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">52 weeks for disability insurance and up to eight weeks for paid family leave. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The SDI fund, which also pays family leave benefits, is forecasted to pay a total of \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/siteassets/files/about_edd/pdf/edddiforecastoct21.pdf\">$10.6 billion in claims by the end of the year while maintaining a healthy balance of $2.4 billion\u003c/a>, according to the most recent \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">estimates\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the Employment Development Department, which manages the programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lower-income employees, who are disproportionately women and people of color, are much less likely to take advantage of the critical benefits even though they are taxed for them, state data shows. Paid family leave is linked to lower infant care costs for parents and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newamerica.org/better-life-lab/reports/paid-family-leave-how-much-time-enough/maternal-health-and-wellbeing/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">better health for babies and mothers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know that it’s not humane or cost-efficient to force back to work new parents, folks who are sick or injured, or their family caregivers before they’re ready,” said Katie Wutchiett, a staff attorney with Legal Aid at Work. “But by having a state disability insurance and paid family leave system that doesn’t provide enough income for families to live on, that’s exactly what we’re doing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/paid-family-leave-program-is-out-of-reach-for-many-californians/\">Californians with less than $20,000 in annual wages represented 37% of the workers who paid into the fund in 2020, but only 14% of those who used paid family leave\u003c/a>, according to a California Budget and Policy Center \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">analysis\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The governor’s office declined to comment on the budget proposal or any negotiations. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AB-123-PDF.pdf\">Newsom vetoed a bill that would have raised benefit payment rates\u003c/a>, arguing it was too costly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, however, Durazo and other lawmakers offered a potential fix to raise more funds: eliminating \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a ceiling for taxable contributions that allows higher-income earners to stop paying the SDI tax on wages beyond $146,000. Under the new proposal, all eligible workers would keep paying the tax throughout the year, no matter how much they make. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An analysis \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by the Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the change would likely offset new costs from higher wage replacement levels, although it’s uncertain how many more people would seek the benefits.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Right now, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">low-wage workers are essentially financing the leaves of more highly paid workers,” Wutchiett said. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Requiring wealthy people to pay the same percentage as the lowest-income workers seems pretty reasonable.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s unclear whether Newsom agrees. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In May, Newsom offered to extend for a year the current benefit rates of 70% for very-low-income, part-time workers making under $27,000 annually, and 60% for all other employees. But that extension, which advocates like Wutchiett argue is insufficient, also was not included in the recent budget agreement with lawmakers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the consequences of not taking needed time off can be deadly, said Dr. Sharad Jain, a primary care doctor at the Sacramento County Health Center, which serves mostly lower-income patients. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jain remembers a Latino man, a construction worker in his 50s, who should have applied for disability insurance to make the time for a lung biopsy, a CAT scan and treatment, but the patient was deterred because he believed the wage replacement rate was too low. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When he spoke with our social worker, he said, ‘I have to go to work. Because if I don’t make my full salary, I’m not going to be able to support my family,’” Jain, a professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine, recalled.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That patient ended up receiving a cancer diagnosis too late, and he died prematurely, according to Jain, leaving his children and family without his support. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, after being released from the hospital, Contreras made the heart-wrenching decision to spend just two weeks at home with her daughter before going back to work as an administrative assistant. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She remembers crying almost daily at the office.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was very, very traumatic. I was really heartbroken,” said Contreras, 37, who lives in San Bernardino County. “I wish I would have been able to afford to stay home longer and bond with my baby, because bonding with her for only two weeks was really nothing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11918459 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940-e1656626199105-800x722.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a baby while sitting on a couch in front of a cake with a lit candle on top.\" width=\"800\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940-e1656626199105-800x722.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940-e1656626199105-1020x921.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940-e1656626199105-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_7940-e1656626199105.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosalba Contreras celebrates the first birthday of her daughter Jayleen at home in Fontana, on Dec. 27, 2018. Contreras, who worked as an administrative assistant when she had Jayleen, says wage replacement rates for disability insurance and paid family leave are too low. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rosalba Contreras)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contreras was eligible for at least eight more weeks of paid leave under state programs that support employees who lose income because they take time off to bond with a new child, to care for an ill relative or for personal health reasons. But the benefits offer just a fraction of a person’s wages, often 60%, and Contreras couldn’t subsist on just over half her salary for two more months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I had to borrow money from family and friends until I could go back” to work, said Contreras, whose medical bills skyrocketed to about $1,000 per month due to the second surgery and subsequent treatment. Her leave benefits offered less than $1,500 per month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The people who make less money get less pay from the benefits because it’s based on a percentage of what you make,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A bid by lawmakers to significantly increase the California State Disability Insurance and Paid Family Leave wage replacement benefits, especially for lower-income Californians, was left out of the \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/Floor%20Report%20of%20the%202022-23%20Budget%20%28Updated%20June%2027%2C%202022%29.pdf\">$300 billion state \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spending plan\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders unveiled Sunday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The budget item would have boosted benefits to between 70% and 90% of a person’s wages, offering the higher rate to employees making under $57,000 per year. The plan could still be implemented as part of trailer bills, according to legislative staffers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An alternative path for the proposal to reach the governor’s desk is a bill that would raise the programs’ wage replacement rates starting in 2025\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB951\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 951\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, by State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles), is advancing in the Legislature.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Without any budgetary or legislative action, hundreds of thousands of Californians each year are set to see their \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/Disability/Disability_Insurance\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">disability\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/disability/paid-family-leave/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">family leave\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> payments shrink to just 55% of their wages in 2023, due to the sunset of a bill that raised the rates to current levels. That will make the critical benefits even less affordable for lower-income workers, according to Kristin Schumacher, a policy analyst with the California Budget and Policy Center, a nonpartisan research nonprofit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Gov. Newsom has pitched himself as a champion of paid family leave, but he has ignored the largest barrier California workers face in taking time off — the benefit levels,” said Schumacher. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Newsom could still opt to do the right thing and increase the payment rates for paid family leave and the disability insurance program.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most California workers pay for these programs through a mandatory SDI payroll tax of 1.1%. The state uses those funds to provide workers partial wage replacement, which aims to ensure the SDI fund stays solvent. Workers are eligible to receive \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a maximum of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">52 weeks for disability insurance and up to eight weeks for paid family leave. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The SDI fund, which also pays family leave benefits, is forecasted to pay a total of \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/siteassets/files/about_edd/pdf/edddiforecastoct21.pdf\">$10.6 billion in claims by the end of the year while maintaining a healthy balance of $2.4 billion\u003c/a>, according to the most recent \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">estimates\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the Employment Development Department, which manages the programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lower-income employees, who are disproportionately women and people of color, are much less likely to take advantage of the critical benefits even though they are taxed for them, state data shows. Paid family leave is linked to lower infant care costs for parents and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newamerica.org/better-life-lab/reports/paid-family-leave-how-much-time-enough/maternal-health-and-wellbeing/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">better health for babies and mothers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know that it’s not humane or cost-efficient to force back to work new parents, folks who are sick or injured, or their family caregivers before they’re ready,” said Katie Wutchiett, a staff attorney with Legal Aid at Work. “But by having a state disability insurance and paid family leave system that doesn’t provide enough income for families to live on, that’s exactly what we’re doing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/paid-family-leave-program-is-out-of-reach-for-many-californians/\">Californians with less than $20,000 in annual wages represented 37% of the workers who paid into the fund in 2020, but only 14% of those who used paid family leave\u003c/a>, according to a California Budget and Policy Center \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">analysis\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The governor’s office declined to comment on the budget proposal or any negotiations. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AB-123-PDF.pdf\">Newsom vetoed a bill that would have raised benefit payment rates\u003c/a>, arguing it was too costly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, however, Durazo and other lawmakers offered a potential fix to raise more funds: eliminating \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a ceiling for taxable contributions that allows higher-income earners to stop paying the SDI tax on wages beyond $146,000. Under the new proposal, all eligible workers would keep paying the tax throughout the year, no matter how much they make. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An analysis \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by the Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the change would likely offset new costs from higher wage replacement levels, although it’s uncertain how many more people would seek the benefits.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Right now, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">low-wage workers are essentially financing the leaves of more highly paid workers,” Wutchiett said. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Requiring wealthy people to pay the same percentage as the lowest-income workers seems pretty reasonable.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s unclear whether Newsom agrees. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In May, Newsom offered to extend for a year the current benefit rates of 70% for very-low-income, part-time workers making under $27,000 annually, and 60% for all other employees. But that extension, which advocates like Wutchiett argue is insufficient, also was not included in the recent budget agreement with lawmakers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the consequences of not taking needed time off can be deadly, said Dr. Sharad Jain, a primary care doctor at the Sacramento County Health Center, which serves mostly lower-income patients. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jain remembers a Latino man, a construction worker in his 50s, who should have applied for disability insurance to make the time for a lung biopsy, a CAT scan and treatment, but the patient was deterred because he believed the wage replacement rate was too low. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When he spoke with our social worker, he said, ‘I have to go to work. Because if I don’t make my full salary, I’m not going to be able to support my family,’” Jain, a professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine, recalled.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That patient ended up receiving a cancer diagnosis too late, and he died prematurely, according to Jain, leaving his children and family without his support. That’s why Jain supports an increase in disability benefit payments, particularly for lower-wage workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think that would do a huge amount to provide them with the freedom to make decisions that would optimize their health,” he said. “And for me, as a provider, I would love to see that happen because I think that would lead to a healthier community and ultimately lower cost to the system by early diagnosis and treatment.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Aleyda Rebelo hasn’t slept well since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many nights, she tosses and turns in bed, anxious about how she’ll pay the $1,200 monthly rent on the house she shares with her family in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so worried because my family depends on me. If I don’t make money, it’s very difficult,” said Rebelo, 35, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of four became the main breadwinner in her household about five years ago, she said, after her husband was disabled at his last job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebelo cleans homes in San Francisco and the Oakland hills but, since March, she has lost several clients and more than half of her earnings, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebelo is one of hundreds of thousands of Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/covid-19-and-vulnerable-renters-california\">renters who saw their incomes drop\u003c/a> during the pandemic, as shelter-in-place and social distancing measures became the norm. The economic slowdown has compounded the stress on families for whom the regional housing market was already unaffordable — and the strain is felt especially in lower-income areas like Fruitvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the health of people in the neighborhood has been battered by the coronavirus. A cluster of three ZIP codes there, including 94601 — where Rebelo lives — has the highest case rates of COVID-19 in Alameda County, according to its\u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page?\"> public health department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aleyda Rebelo at her home in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Aleyda Rebelo\"]‘I’m so worried because my family depends on me.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebelo said her 2-year-old niece, whose family lives in the neighborhood, tested positive for COVID-19 this month. And Rebelo worries about bringing the virus home to her husband, who she said suffered lung damage by inhaling chemicals used to treat wood floors at his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If my husband gets the virus he could die, because he already has a more delicate health condition,” said Rebelo, an immigrant from El Salvador. “So, it’s a huge stress having to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Rebelo, most of the residents in ZIP code 94601 work in jobs that can’t be done from home, so they are at higher risk for contracting the virus. And wages for Rebelo and her neighbors tend to be low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a consequence, more than 28% of people in the ZIP code live in poverty — twice the state average, \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/86000US94601-94601/\">according to census figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We’ve Just Seen the Need Intensify’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, many in Fruitvale and adjacent parts of East Oakland were already spending a big share of their paychecks on rent and had no financial cushion to cope with lost income, said Carolina Reid, an assistant professor in city and regional planning at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to come up with the words that are sufficient to describe what a crisis this must be for some households in terms of concerns over their health … concerns over paying rent,” said Reid, a researcher at UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu\">Terner Center for Housing Innovation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael, 3, Jessalyn, 2, and Genesis 7, play outside of the home of Aleyda Rebelo in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, local and state eviction moratoriums have been a lifeline for renters like Rebelo. But once those policies end, tenants may still have to pay landlords the full amount of their back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid and others worry that could lead to an unprecedented wave of evictions, especially hitting low-income renters of color. As many as 5.4 million people in California are at risk of eviction, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/the-covid-19-eviction-crisis-an-estimated-30-40-million-people-in-america-are-at-risk/\">estimates by the Aspen Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Carolina Reid, UC Berkeley.\"]‘It’s hard to come up with the words that are sufficient to describe what a crisis this must be for some households.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to increase homelessness and it’s also going to have an impact on our ability to have economic recovery,” Reid said. “We are in for a prolonged recession, if not worse, if we can’t get people back on their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid massive evictions, Reid said, the federal government must continue to provide cash assistance to people who’ve been financially hurt by the pandemic, so they can pay for rent, groceries and other basic needs — and help keep the larger economy afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835565/newsom-announces-new-statewide-eviction-moratorium-but-major-concessions-may-threaten-tenants\">announced a plan for a new eviction moratorium\u003c/a> that could protect millions of renters in the state, if the Legislature approves it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11812172\" label=\"Pandemic finance resources\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the bill, Assembly Bill 3088, does not go as far as tenants’ groups had hoped, it would prevent landlords from evicting tenants for missing rent between March 1 and Aug. 31. Unpaid rent from that period would be converted to civil debt, meaning landlords could take tenants to small claims court to try to recover the amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For rents missed between Sept. 1 and Jan. 31, tenants would have to pay at least 25% of what they owe or face eviction. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s lush coastline, balmy climate and post-World War II economic promise made it an easy sell as America’s middle-class paradise in the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California Dream of two or three generations ago was, ‘I’m going to move from a place that’s cold and flat to a place where there’s lots of opportunity,’” said Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange. “’I’ll get a job in an aerospace factory, in an oil company. I’ll buy a house with a pool. I’ll die and go to heaven. And I’ll do it all in good weather.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today the weather remains. But access to the California Dream is being choked off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stratospheric housing costs, the exit of key companies and the failure to replace the jobs that left with them have downsized the state’s middle class.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We could keep up, but we could never get ahead’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since 1970, California’s share of the middle class fell from 60 percent to just over half the population. That trend almost mirrors patterns across the country. The number of middle-income Americans slipped from 61 percent in 1971 to 50 percent in 2015, according to the Pew Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, some have risen to the upper class and others have slid down. And some have \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2017/07/07/is-california-anti-family-joel-kotkin-and-wendell-cox/\">left the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The key group leaving is basically in their 30s, 40s and 50s tending to be making about $100,000 to $200,000 a year,” Kotkin said, citing Internal Revenue Service data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2007 and 2016, \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/265\">California lost 1 million more domestic residents than have come into the state,\u003c/a> according to the IRS. Many are moving to Texas, Arizona, Nevada and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California opened their doors and basically kicked us out,” Kelly Rudiger said. “We couldn’t afford to live there with almost half of our income paying for our housing, our property taxes, our utilities. So my husband and I, both being full-time employees, we could keep up but we could never get ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rudiger and her husband, Tony, moved their two children to Texas last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sold an 1,800-square-foot home in San Diego and now live in a 4,000-square-foot home and are still paying less on our mortgage,” Rudiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her middle-class income goes a lot further in Texas than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11654647\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11654647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800-800x1177.jpg\" alt=\"The Rudiger family: Tony, back left; Kelly, back right; and their children Renae and Branden Bingham -- moved to Texas in 2017 because San Diego was no longer affordable for their middle-income family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1177\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800-160x235.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800-240x353.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800-375x552.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800-520x765.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rudiger family: Tony, back left; Kelly, back right; and their children — Renae and Branden Bingham — moved to Texas in 2017 because San Diego was no longer affordable for their middle-income family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kelly Rudiger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Public Policy Institute of California classifies middle-income earners as those making between $49,716 and $174,006, based on 2017 calculations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotkin said California families used to pay three times their income for a home in 1970. Sometime over the next decade it changed, and now that figure has jumped to as high as 10 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who has got that kind of money?” asked Kotkin. “Where I live, all the older people keep complaining, `My kids keep visiting me just waiting for me to drop dead so they can have the house.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Brownell, research director at San Diego’s Center on Policy Initiatives, said the inability of California’s middle class to afford homes exposes a vulnerability in the state’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though as a whole, our economy is successful in terms of what it’s producing and the amount of wealth it’s producing, we’re not seeing that translate into incomes that will support families here in San Diego and across California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he believes that is not economically sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people have stable, middle-class incomes, it means they have money in their pocket to consume all kinds of goods, whether that’s purchasing housing, buying new clothes, buying cars, buying refrigerators,” Brownell said. “Our economy is driven by consumer spending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotkin said California’s middle class started to dwindle when the Cold War ended in the 1990s, devastating the state’s aerospace industry. California has lost 280,000 aerospace jobs over the last 30 years, according to the book “Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotkin said real estate and construction jobs also went away. More recently, jobs in the business sector have taken a hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Toyota, Occidental Petroleum, Nissan, companies that employed a large number of middle-class people, are going,” Kotkin said. “These were companies that had a lot of good paying jobs — $80,000, $100,000, $120,000 — enough to support a middle-class lifestyle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he said many companies that remain are not expanding because of California’s land, energy, housing and regulatory costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center on Policy Initiative’s Brownell said the companies that are expanding are contributing to the state’s income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream\">Explore the California Dream Series\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/interstate-1920x1080-tight-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Here in California, we’ve had great success in creating highly skilled, high-paying jobs — in the tech industry in Silicon Valley and in San Diego the biotech industry,” Brownell said. “A lot of those really successful and well-paying industries have built into them a structural demand for low-wage work as well, the nannies, the restaurant workers and the dry cleaners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brownell said it is important to note that even people earning more than workers in low-wage jobs\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpisandiego.org/lack-of-hours-hits-minimum-wage-increase/\"> are struggling to survive.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon Mintz runs a floral arrangement business in San Diego. She said she offers free meals to her employees and has increased their pay from $15 to $20 an hour over the past few years but still cannot hold onto them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It works and then the rent goes up,” Mintz said. “And then we offer a little bit more and then groceries go up. It feels like we’re always trying to catch up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brownell said a middle-class revival lies in the hands of government, strong unions and companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said policymakers need to encourage the creation of quality jobs in the state. Unions set standards for wage and working conditions. 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So my husband and I, both being full-time employees, we could keep up but we could never get ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rudiger and her husband, Tony, moved their two children to Texas last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sold an 1,800-square-foot home in San Diego and now live in a 4,000-square-foot home and are still paying less on our mortgage,” Rudiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her middle-class income goes a lot further in Texas than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11654647\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11654647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800-800x1177.jpg\" alt=\"The Rudiger family: Tony, back left; Kelly, back right; and their children Renae and Branden Bingham -- moved to Texas in 2017 because San Diego was no longer affordable for their middle-income family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1177\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800-160x235.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800-240x353.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800-375x552.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Rudiger800-520x765.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rudiger family: Tony, back left; Kelly, back right; and their children — Renae and Branden Bingham — moved to Texas in 2017 because San Diego was no longer affordable for their middle-income family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kelly Rudiger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Public Policy Institute of California classifies middle-income earners as those making between $49,716 and $174,006, based on 2017 calculations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotkin said California families used to pay three times their income for a home in 1970. Sometime over the next decade it changed, and now that figure has jumped to as high as 10 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who has got that kind of money?” asked Kotkin. “Where I live, all the older people keep complaining, `My kids keep visiting me just waiting for me to drop dead so they can have the house.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Brownell, research director at San Diego’s Center on Policy Initiatives, said the inability of California’s middle class to afford homes exposes a vulnerability in the state’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though as a whole, our economy is successful in terms of what it’s producing and the amount of wealth it’s producing, we’re not seeing that translate into incomes that will support families here in San Diego and across California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he believes that is not economically sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people have stable, middle-class incomes, it means they have money in their pocket to consume all kinds of goods, whether that’s purchasing housing, buying new clothes, buying cars, buying refrigerators,” Brownell said. “Our economy is driven by consumer spending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotkin said California’s middle class started to dwindle when the Cold War ended in the 1990s, devastating the state’s aerospace industry. California has lost 280,000 aerospace jobs over the last 30 years, according to the book “Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotkin said real estate and construction jobs also went away. 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