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• Press Coverage | April 8, 2025

  Rep. Mike Thompson, providers and patients warn about healthcare cuts

  On Friday, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04), Chief Behavioral Officer/Chief Community Health Officer for CommuniCare+OLE Health Sara Gavin, Interim Vice Chancellor of UC Davis Health Dr. Bruce Lee Hall, Yolo County Supervisor Sheila Allen, patient advocate Kate Laddish, and Susanna Hernandez...

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• Press Coverage | April 8, 2025

  Shasta County supervisors meet in temporary location and see high turnout

  

  SHASTA LAKE, Calif. — The Shasta County Board of Supervisors convened their first meeting in a temporary location at the Shasta Lake City Council Chambers on Tuesday, drawing a significant crowd despite a routine agenda.  The regular board chambers in downtown...

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• Press Coverage | April 7, 2025

  A Mother’s Battle to Protect Her Son’s Care

  

  Medicaid is a lifeline for people with disabilities like Josh Lockwood-Wewer. As GOP lawmakers push for cuts, his mother is taking a stand. There is not much Josh Lockwood-Wewer loves more than Disney. The affable 33-year-old speaks almost exclusively in the...

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• Press Coverage | April 3, 2025

  Have Skilled Nursing Facilities Become Dumping Grounds for the Mentally Ill?

  

  When the 911 call comes from inside the nursing home, health care workers are sometimes the victims. A couple of years ago, the trickle became a flood. Christina Lockyer-White had long known that the skilled nursing facility where she worked in...

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• Press Coverage | April 2, 2025

  News Coverage of Rally in Delano to Honor Cesar Chavez and Support Immigrant Rights

  

  People from across California gathered in Delano on March 31 to demonstrate their solidarity with immigrant communities and to celebrate former civil rights advocate Cesar Chavez, who once led a five-year strike challenging California farmers in Delano, demanding fair wages...

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• Press Coverage | April 1, 2025

  There’s already a caregiver crisis. So who will take care of Mom if immigrant workers get deported?

  As the first baby boomers turn 80 this year, the demand for home healthcare workers is expected to surge. At the same time, the Trump administration is ramping up its campaign to deport immigrants, who make up about one-third of such...

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• Press Coverage | April 1, 2025

  Is Donald Trump watching? The U.S. is facing a massive healthcare crisis, without immigrants, there’s no one to care for the elderly 

  

  America is racing towards a home healthcare disaster, according to a report. As the population in the US ages, the nation confronts an alarming task: employing sufficient personnel to take care of the elderly, as per Off The Front Page...

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• Press Coverage | March 29, 2025

  There’s already a caregiver crisis. So who will take care of Mom if immigrant workers get deported?

  

  There will be 9.3 million job openings for direct-care workers in the home healthcare sector over the next decade, research says  As the first baby boomers turn 80 this year, the demand for home healthcare workers is expected to surge....

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• Press Coverage | March 27, 2025

  Shasta County’s IHSS Workers are Asking for a Livable Wage. Here’s What You Need to Know.

  

  Amidst a County-wide healthcare shortage, more than 4,000 IHSS workers are serving on the frontlines for $18.10 an hour. They’re negotiating for more. In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers rallied outside Shasta’s Administrative Building for the second time this year on...

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• Press Release | March 20, 2025

  Trump’s Dept. of Education Shutdown Advances Billionaire Agenda, Making Our Students & Schools Pay

  SACRAMENTO, CA – SEIU California today rebuked Trump’s Executive Order attempting to shut down the U.S. Department of Education in all but name without Congressional approval. According to Ed Source, California schools received $8 billion in federal funding last budget year,...

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• Press Coverage | March 19, 2025

  News Coverage, Home Care Workers Advance Plan to Protect Life-Saving Care for Seniors and People with Disabilities: Fight Federal Cuts to Medi-Cal, Strengthen In-Home Supportive Services

  Sacramento, CA – Home care workers were joined today by Assemblymember Matt Haney for a news conference celebrating a critical step forward for their plan to protect the life-saving care that 829,000 seniors and people with disabilities depend on in California:...

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