News Coverage | May 20, 2025

This Weeks Medicaid Actions Across California

23 ABC News Bakersfield:Healthcare advocates rally outside of Rep. David Valadao's office in Bakersfield today. https://youtu.be/ROTBcG-EWVA KBAK Eyewitness News at Noon:Mock funeral held to highlight cuts to Medicaid and Health Care https://youtu.be/1ErjPTLPtRo
Fresnoland | May 20, 2025

Fresno County Board of Supervisors approves new contract for home care workers boosting wages over $18

The Fresno County Board of Supervisors approved a new contract for the county’s thousands of home care workers, marking the end of over two years of negotiations. The Fresno County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a new three-year contract for...

Wage Increase Region 3 Fresno County Board of Supervisors
ABC News | May 16, 2025

‘I feel very scared’: Some Americans fear losing coverage due to proposed Medicaid cuts

Key components of the bill to fund President Donald Trump's agenda looks to provide major tax breaks by cutting spending elsewhere, including massive cuts to Medicaid. Medicaid is a joint federal and state health insurance program for disabled and low-income Americans....

Medicaid Cuts Republican Budget Cuts
Times of San Diego | May 14, 2025

Medicaid cuts threaten California’s in-home caregivers

For Maria Paredez, the slashing of Medicaid funding is no political football, or some abstract argument emanating from Republicans in Congress about the size of government. It hits her where she lives: a small house in a small town in Tulare...

IHSS Medicaid Cuts Republican Budget Cuts
Capital & Main | May 8, 2025

The Unkindest Cut: Slashing Medicaid Threatens the Medically Vulnerable

For Maria Paredez, the slashing of Medicaid funding is no political football, or some abstract argument emanating from Republicans in Congress about the size of government. It hits her where she lives: a small house in a small town in Tulare...

IHSS Tulare County Region 6 Medicaid Cuts Republican Budget Cuts
News Coverage | May 7, 2025

News Coverage of Longtime Santa Cruz resident’s immigration detention sparks protests ahead of court hearing in Washington state

Cliona Ward, a longtime Santa Cruz resident, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on April 21, 2025, after returning from Ireland where she was visiting her sick father. Lookout Santa Cruz:Longtime Santa Cruz resident's immigration detention sparks...

Green Card Santa Cruz ICE Immigration Region 3
Shasta Scout | May 5, 2025

Despite Stalled Contract Negotiations, Shasta’s IHSS Workers Don’t Plan to Strike

Rachel Smith has a psychology degree and gave up her job doing nails to take care of her son with cerebral palsy. She’s one of 11 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers who spoke at an April 8 Shasta County Board...

Living Wage Shasta Board of Supervisors IHSS
Shasta Scout | May 5, 2025

Despite Stalled Contract Negotiations, Shasta’s IHSS Workers Don’t Plan to Strike

More than 4,000 Shasta County community members work for a program known as In-Home Health Services. While IHSS workers are legally allowed to strike once their contract expires, local workers are pursuing other forms of negotiation instead — out of...

Shasta County Region 6
News Coverage | May 1, 2025

Statewide Coverage of 2025 May Day Actions

May 1st, 2025, members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union, and California’s largest labor union representing more than half a million care workers across California—are gathering for May Day also known as International Workers’ Day to...

May Day Immigration Rights Federal Workers
News Coverage | April 28, 2025

Univision: Interview with SEIU 2015 President Arnulfo De La Cruz on Medicaid

A clip featuring SEIU President Arnulfo De La Cruz being interviewed by Univision's statewide political show on why Medicaid is so important and we need to protect Medicaid. Un clip con el presidente de SEIU, Arnulfo De La Cruz, siendo...

Arnulfo De La Cruz Medicaid
The Good Men Project | April 25, 2025

‘I Shouldn’t Have to Fight My Own Government.’ Activists and Caregivers Rally for Medicaid in Clovis

A pro-Medicaid rally Thursday organized by Central Valley disability rights activists and caregivers culminated in a roughly 20-minute conversation between a handful of protesters and workers outside U.S. Rep. Vince Fong’s field office in Clovis. Disability Voices United, a statewide...

Medicaid Clovis Rep. Vince Fong