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This week on SoCal Matters, July 15 2024
California Legislative Black Caucus promotes 14 reparations bills across the state. Supreme Court grants cities more power to fine people sleeping in public. The state-funded Small Business Technical Assistance Program retains its $23 million funding.
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Inside Safe moves unhoused Angelenos from streets to hotels, aiming for permanent housing.
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Late government payments force nonprofits to cut services and take out high-interest loans.
1:55
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.
1:20
Prop 36 would undo some aspects of Prop 47 by reinstating harsher penalties for theft and drug crime
1:55
Prop 35 would allocate MCO tax revenues to raise Medi-Cal payments for doctors.
1:40
Prop 34 would restrict how certain healthcare providers use federal discount drug program funds.
1:20
Prop 33 seeks to allow cities to expand rent control, overturning limits set by Costa-Hawkins.
1:45
Prop 32 seeks to raise California's minimum wage to $18 by 2025.
1:55
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%.
1:45
A new proposition aims to remove an outdated same-sex marriage ban from California's constitution.