…little scary to think about what the future could look like, especially seeing some of those unemployment projections,” she said. The report is based on Census Bureau data gathered by…
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High school teachers wary of taking on contentious Biden-Trump presidential election
…AVID is flexible enough to accommodate current events. Dodd spent two weeks covering the Census and a week on the Supreme Court after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
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Latino small business owners are fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S.
…city surrounded by rich agricultural land, U.S. Census Bureau data shows 78.7 percent of the some-156,000 residents are Hispanic or Latino. While the city’s agricultural industry thrives financially, thanks to…
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Best Bets: Sugartown Festival, Peninsula International Dance fest, ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ Music@Menlo, ‘Secret Byrd’
…“census-designated place” rather than a village or town or small city. Named after California Supreme Court Justice Joseph P. Crockett, the community has developed a reputation as a cool place…
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Schools brace for Trump’s attacks on immigrants, trans students and ‘woke’ curriculum
…to deportation or becoming separated from their parents. More than 115,000 children in California were undocumented in the most recent census count, and almost half of California children have at…
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Hitting where it Hertz: Lawsuit says rental car giant discriminates against disabled drivers
…class action is certified by the court, but note that according to a November 2018 report from the U.S. Census Bureau, 5.5 million Americans (2.3 percent of the population) have…
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SF students drink bottled water while district seeks solution to lead-contaminated schools
…have fixed it by now.” Lead exposure comes from many sources beyond drinking water. The California Department of Public Health has developed an index of risk indicators by Census tract….
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Some Bay Area businesses exempt from state mask mandate
…increased 47 percent, and hospitalizations have gone up 14 percent. State officials say holidays bring more risk, with more people traveling and staying indoors. “Given the current hospital census, which…
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Palo Alto opens Foothills Park to public, ending policy of exclusive access
…purchasing property and living in Palo Alto through practices such as redlining. Consequently, the city’s Black population has remained low, just below 2 percent according to census data. Visitors walk…
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Charging toward net zero: The environmental factors EVs fail to address amid climate goals
…uses public transportation to commute to work, according to the Census. And the current presidential administration, backed by Congress, has plowed a historically large amount of taxpayer dollars into building…