UC Davis researchers found that implementing a basic income program for impoverished mothers in Yolo County resulted in reduced depression and increased quality time with their children. This suggests that basic income could be a transformative solution to combat child poverty in California.
In 2022, Yolo County began providing a guaranteed basic income to 67 families with children under age 6 — 90% of them led by single women. It was enough money to raise the families’ incomes one dollar above the California Poverty Measure over a two-year period.
In prisons, archives and libraries in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Panama and even at Harvard University, Benjamin Weber spent 10 years learning how today’s prison system in the United States began centuries ago outside of its borders.
The Sacramento Valley College Corps has awarded more than $66,000 in grants to 12 community partners, a significant investment in local organizations that often struggle with limited resources.
The Klamath River runs over 250 miles (400 kilometers) from southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean in Northern California. It flows through the steep, rugged Klamath Mountains, past slopes of redwood, fir, tanoak and madrone, and along pebbled beaches where willows shade the river’s edge.
When COVID-19 isolated incarcerated people, Assistant Professor Ben Weber and the California Coalition for Women Prisoners launched a writing group to facilitate communication among individuals both on inside and outside of prison walls.
Project Optimism is one of 54 host sites for Sacramento Valley College Corps fellows. In this interview, cofounder Ishmael Pruitt shares his insights about working with SVCC student fellows.
Politicians have been saying there’s an immigration crisis at the border for decades and have been trying to fix it for nearly as long. The rules have changed many times over the years – and they are about to change again as a pandemic-era set of restrictions expires May 11, 2023.
