Healthcare Innovation | June 2, 2025

Labor Organizer: Medicaid Cuts Could Devastate the Nursing Home Workforce

Arnulfo De La Cruz, president of SEIU Local 2015, sees impending Medicaid cuts hitting nursing homes In the wake of the passage on May 22 of the 2026 budget bill by the U.S. House of Representatives, leaders of diverse organizations and alliances...

Arnulfo De La Cruz Medicaid Cuts
PopularResistance.org | June 2, 2025

From Coast To Coast, People Demand Health Care For All, Not Profits

On Saturday, May 31, people across the United States rallied as part of the first National Day of Action organized by National Single Payer to demand Health, not Profit: Put National Single Payer on the Nation’s Agenda. A national single...

Arnulfo De La Cruz Profits over Health
News Coverage | May 27, 2025

News Coverage Los Angeles County Home Care Providers call for an investment in long-term care at Board of Supervisors

In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) caregivers—members of SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest labor union and the nation’s largest long-term care union—returned to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to demand investment in home care and improve the lives of the County’s...

IHSS Livable Wage Region 1
Capradio | May 23, 2025

Local in-home support workers at risk due to proposed state budget cuts

Bernadette Walton is a Sacramento resident who is an in-home support service worker for her daughter. She provides for her 11-year-old daughter, who is autistic and needs support at home. Walton said her daughter needs help with everyday living — hygiene,...

Medicaid Cuts IHSS Republican Budget Cuts
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 NBC Bakersfield:‘Medicaid cuts kill’: Healthcare rallies continue, this...

Medicaid Republican Budget Cuts
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...

Republican Budget Cuts Medicaid Cuts IHSS
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 Region 6 Medicaid Cuts Republican Budget Cuts Tulare County
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