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After AB60, Some Immigrants Have Hard Time Getting License
Long Beach VoiceWaves, News Report, Posted: Jan 31, 2015
VoiceWaves spoke to undocumented immigrants, community leaders and lawyers about some of the challenges facing immigrants looking to get a driver’s license.
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After AB60, Some Immigrants Have Hard Time Getting Lice…
After AB60, Some Immigrants Have Hard Time Getting License
Long Beach VoiceWaves, News Report, Posted: Jan 31, 2015
VoiceWaves spoke to undocumented immigrants, community leaders and lawyers about some of the challenges facing immigrants looking to get a driver’s license.
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Chinese Elders Find California’s Low-Income Care…
Chinese Elders Find California’s Low-Income Care Plan Promising, But …
World Journal/New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 31, 2015
Zonghu Wong Lee, 94, must decide whether to join a new California plan promising to coordinate her care, but she and others find the program confusing.
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Rabbi Helps Hispanics Connect with Secret Jewish Roots
Rabbi Helps Hispanics Connect with Secret Jewish Roots
Borderzine, News Feature, Posted: Jan 31, 2015
Louie Saenz, news director for KTEP radio, said he found out about his own Jewish heritage by accident.
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Michigan Lawsuit Highlights Growing Islamophobia in U.S…
Michigan Lawsuit Highlights Growing Islamophobia in U.S.
Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Jan 30, 2015
Reactions to a federal lawsuit brought by a Michigan woman who was forced to remove her hijab when arrested last July point to growing Islamophobia.
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Agua 4 All Campaign Launches in the Eastern Coachella V…
Agua 4 All Campaign Launches in the Eastern Coachella Valley
Coachella Unincorporated, News Report, Posted: Jan 29, 2015
Agua 4 All, a pilot project that aims to bring clean drinking water to rural communities across California, launched Wednesday in Thermal, Calif.
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Japanese American Seniors Write Letters to the Future
Japanese American Seniors Write Letters to the Future
Nichi Bei Weekly/New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 29, 2015
A California gerontologist learned cultural lessons while teaching Japanese American elders to write “legacy” letters on their values and ideas to family and fr…
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Obama’s Arctic Decisions May be the Climate’…
Obama’s Arctic Decisions May be the Climate’s Turning Point
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 28, 2015
The Obama administration stepped up to preserve the environment by limiting future oil and gas development in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Indigenous Leaders Call for Driving Test in Their Own L…
Indigenous Leaders Call for Driving Test in Their Own Language
La OpiniĂłn, News Report, Posted: Jan 28, 2015
Getting a driver’s license is crucial for farmworkers, who often depend on cars to get to remote areas that aren’t accessible by bus.
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Forced Disappearances are Humanitarian Crisis in Mexico
Forced Disappearances are Humanitarian Crisis in Mexico
Inter Press Service, News Report, Posted: Jan 26, 2015
Twenty-six human rights organisations have sent a U.N. Committee 12 submissions on the problem of forced disappearance in Mexico.
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Doctor With Parkinson’s Fights Latino CultureR…
Doctor With Parkinson’s Fights Latino Culture’s Silence, Denial…
HuffPost Voces/New America Media , News Feature, Posted: Jan 24, 2015
Neurologist MarĂa de LeĂłn, MD, is not only an expert on Parkinson’s, but also has the disease. She founded the group Defeat Parkinson’s to help Latinos in parti…
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‘The Happiest Day of My Life’ - Undocumente…
‘The Happiest Day of My Life’ - Undocumented APIs Urged to Appl…
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 23, 2015
Undocumented Californians can now obtain driver's licenses, but advocates worry that few among them will be from the API community.
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Study: Women, Minorities Pay Higher Effective Social Se…
Study: Women, Minorities Pay Higher Effective Social Security Rate
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 22, 2015
President Obama’s State-of-the-Union plan would help workers start 401(k)s. But experts say he should also act to make Social Security taxes more equitable.
‘When My Brother Comes’ - New Regs Could Discourage Prison Visits
The kNOw, First Person, Posted: Jan 30, 2015
A new set of California regulations aimed at ferreting out contraband in state prisons threatens to discourage those hoping to visit fa…
Low-Income Koreans Confused on New California Care Plan
Korea Times/New America Media , News Feature, Posted: Jan 25, 2015
Low-income elders like Young Soon Kim, 75, of San Jose, must decide whether to join a new California health plan with good benefits, bu…
Former US Sailor Rocks Boat with Federal Lawsuit
Muslim Observer, News Report, Posted: Jan 23, 2015
Being a US sailor allowed Jonathan Berts a chance to travel around the world and study Arabic and Islam, but his commitment to faith re…
In State of the Union, Obama Calls on GOP to Help Middle Class
Washington Informer, News Report, Posted: Jan 21, 2015
In his sixth State of the Union address, the president challenged the GOP to uplift the middle class with more trade deals and higher t…
How Hardcore Helps Me Cope With Depression
We'Ced, Video, Posted: Jan 16, 2015
Robert Cervantez, 19, has struggled with feelings of depression since middle school. Merced's Hardcore community has given him a much-n…
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Chinese Elders Find California’s Low-Income Care Plan Promising, But Confusing
World Journal/New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 31, 2015
Japanese American Seniors Write Letters to the Future
Nichi Bei Weekly/New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 29, 2015
Low-Income Koreans Confused on New California Care Plan
Korea Times/New America Media , News Feature, Posted: Jan 25, 2015
Immigration
After AB60, Some Immigrants Have Hard Time Getting License
Long Beach VoiceWaves, News Report, Posted: Jan 31, 2015
Rabbi Helps Hispanics Connect with Secret Jewish Roots
Borderzine, News Feature, Posted: Jan 31, 2015
Arrests of Undocumented Migrants in Southern US at Lowest Since 1970s
El Mensajero, News Report, Posted: Jan 29, 2015
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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Thursday that detentions of undocum…
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The GOP's Border Bill Would Be a Di…
Congress has been pushing to pass bill that turns border security into a matter …
Mexican Army to Guard Schools Threa…
Mexican soldiers will from Tuesday start guarding elementary and other schools i…
Winter Storm Facts Could Save Motor…
Heavy snowstorms, dangerous ice and some altogether rough driving conditio…
Black Cubans: Restoring US Ties Is …
It doesn’t matter how much Cuba’s culture changes now that the…
Chloe Kim Becomes the Youngest Wint…
Chloe Kim, 14, became the youngest gold medalist in Winter X Games history…
President’s Muscle-Flexing SO…
In his next-to-last State of the Union, a revived and unmistakably ultrade…
South Korean Teen Joins ISIS
South Korean media are reporting on what is believed to be the first case of a S…
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On Tuesday the president will deliver his State of the Union address, and …
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