blog post How Is California’s Labor Market Doing amid Inflation Pressures? By Jenny Duan, Sarah Bohn May 25, 2023 2 days ago ... Inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, marking a 40-year high. Now, a year later, prices have started to cool, with inflation falling to ...
blog post California’s Farmworkers and Their Children Are Vulnerable to Food Insecurity By Paulette Cha Apr 25, 2023 Apr 25, 2023 ... Most farmworkers do not participate in either CalFresh or WIC, ... for the workers who plant, tend, and harvest California's crops.
blog post Storms, Floods, and COVID-19 Have Worsened Long-standing Farmworker Housing Challenges By Paulette Cha Apr 12, 2023 High housing costs in California have long been a major challenge, ... At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, farm employees were more likely than any ...
blog post Video: Pandemic Changes to Medi-Cal and Implications for Immigrant Farmworkers By Stephanie Barton Apr 5, 2023 Apr 5, 2023 ... ... public health emergency as well as upcoming Medi-Cal expansions. ... all workers may not have access or coverage may not be offered.
blog post A Regional Look at California’s Latest Employment Trends By Sarah Bohn, Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Jenny Duan, Julien Lafortune Mar 30, 2023 Mar 30, 2023 ... photo - Two workers in discussion while using a tablet ... inflation remains high, regional banking is under pressure, tech layoffs are ...
Policy Brief Policy Brief: Pandemic Changes to Medi-Cal and Implications for California’s Immigrant Farmworkers By Paulette Cha Mar 22, 2023 Mar 31, 2023 ... figure - Nearly half of immigrant farmworkers lack health insurance, and most who are uninsured. SOURCE: National Agricultural Workers ...
blog post Who’s Leaving California—and Who’s Moving In? By Hans Johnson, Eric McGhee Mar 21, 2023 May 6, 2021 ... figure - Remote work enabled high-income workers to leave California. However, while the migration of higher-income and more highly educated ...
Explainer Is College Worth It? By Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Cesar Alesi Perez, Vicki Hsieh, Hans Johnson Mar 8, 2023 Today's labor market increasingly rewards highly educated workers: In 1990, a worker with a bachelor's degree earned 39 percent more than one whose highest ...
Fact Sheet Income Inequality in California By Tess Thorman, Daniel Payares-Montoya, Joseph Herrera Mar 7, 2023 California's income distribution reflects high rates of poverty. ... Rising income inequality is driven by a job market that favors highly educated workers.
blog post New Horizons for Senior Fellow Alvar Escriva-Bou By Sarah Bardeen Feb 24, 2023 Feb 24, 2023 ... One of the most important things I've learned here is that there is a real ... Often there are no incentives for academics to work at the ...