Policy Brief Policy Brief: Pandemic Changes to Medi-Cal and Implications for California’s Immigrant Farmworkers By Paulette Cha Mar 22, 2023 4 days ago ... California has expanded Medi-Cal in stages to undocumented immigrants. Farmworkers are a heavily immigrant workforce, and about half are ...
Explainer Is College Worth It? By Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Cesar Alesi Perez, Vicki Hsieh, Hans Johnson Mar 8, 2023 11 hours ago ... Beyond wage gains, the job market favors college graduates in other ways as well. Graduates are more likely to participate in the labor force, ...
blog post Human Trafficking in California By Heather Harris Feb 15, 2023 Feb 15, 2023 ... Labor trafficking is broad in scope and includes forced work in any industry. Sex trafficking refers specifically to forced sex work.
Fact Sheet Law Enforcement Staffing in California By Brandon Martin, Magnus Lofstrom, Andrew Skelton Feb 13, 2023 Feb 9, 2023 ... Almost half of California's law enforcement officers work for municipal police departments. Statewide staffing levels dropped significantly ...
Policy Brief Policy Brief: The Future of Agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Ellen Hanak, Spencer Cole, Josué Medellín-Azuara Feb 8, 2023 Feb 9, 2023 ... In past work, we found that two approaches could significantly mitigate ... supplier of food, and a vibrant force in the regional economy.
press release The Economy and Homelessness Are Top Issues for Californians Feb 1, 2023 Feb 1, 2023 ... But Californians are divided (48% of adults and 49% of likely voters approving) on the governor's proposed cuts to workforce training, ...
blog post California’s Highly Educated Immigrants By Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Cesar Alesi Perez, Hans Johnson Jan 30, 2023 Jan 30, 2023 ... More than half of the working-age immigrants who arrived over the past ten ... 40 percent of the college-educated workforce are immigrants.
Fact Sheet Immigrants in California By Cesar Alesi Perez, Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Hans Johnson Jan 23, 2023 Jan 30, 2023 ... Almost half (46%) of California children have at least one immigrant parent. More than a third (35%) of adults of prime working age—those 25 to ...
blog post Californians Are Pessimistic about Economic Times Ahead By Dean Bonner, Sarah Bohn Jan 18, 2023 Jan 18, 2023 ... Whether these changes widen or narrow disparities in opportunity depends on how well California can set up its businesses, workforce, and ...
blog post How Is Remote Work Affecting Worker Preferences and the Economy? By Dean Bonner, Sarah Bohn Dec 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022 ... The COVID-19 pandemic's effects on the labor market are hard to overstate. What started as a temporary shift to working from home has now ...