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SoCal Matters
The Challenges of Deaf Workers in CA
Season 2024
Episode 47
Deaf adults in California face challenges finding jobs that don't require speech communication or hiring costly interpreters. The Employment Development Department offers career counselors to support deaf job seekers.
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SoCal Kaiser Mental Health workers strike, demanding higher wages, more time, and better pensions.
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Prop 1 funds billions for housing and treatment for Californians with mental illness.
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Prop 36 would undo some aspects of Prop 47 by reinstating harsher penalties for theft and drug crime
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Prop 35 would allocate MCO tax revenues to raise Medi-Cal payments for doctors.
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Prop 34 would restrict how certain healthcare providers use federal discount drug program funds.
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Prop 33 seeks to allow cities to expand rent control, overturning limits set by Costa-Hawkins.
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Prop 32 seeks to raise California's minimum wage to $18 by 2025.
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Prop 6 would ban involuntary labor for California prisoners.
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Prop 5 would lower the voter approval needed for affordable housing bonds from two-thirds to 55%.