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...

Santa Cruz Region 3 Immigration ICE Green Card
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...

IHSS Shasta Board of Supervisors Living Wage
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...

Region 6 Shasta County
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...

Federal Workers Immigration Rights May Day
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
Fresnoland | 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...

Region 3 Fresno Medicaid Cuts Clovis
News Coverage | April 23, 2025

News Roundup from our Hands Off Medicaid actions across California

ABC 10Hundreds protest possible Medi-Cal cuts outside Republican Congressional offices MODESTO, Calif. -- Hundreds of demonstrators are gathering outside California Republican Congressional offices this week to protest efforts to cut Medicaid funding. Read more... NBC 4 Los AngelesRally against proposed...

Medicaid Anaheim Rep. Young Kim
News Coverage | April 18, 2025

News Coverage of Hands off our Medicaid rallies

CBS: Hands off Medicaid Rally in Bakersfield https://youtu.be/8wpziHSouas?si=qBx_00TfoegALS5I Fox News: Hands off Medicaid Rally in Bakersfield https://youtu.be/eVoCwc8gCF8?si=KPtAQ3TINm0TLuFj

Region 3 Bakersfield Medicaid Medicaid Cuts