Poverty

Head Start staff and advocates launched a nationwide campaign to save the program, which Trump eliminated in his budget draft.

Across California, only one in five eligible college students receive CalFresh due to complicated requirements and an arduous application process. With two-thirds of students experiencing food insecurity, many campuses have started helping them apply for CalFresh.

The helpers need help. As federal funding for anti-hunger programs face major cuts, California faces its own $56 million chop in money it sends to food banks.

Democratic legislators this week acknowledged the need to bring down costs of living, days after Donald Trump's win the presidency largely on economic issues.

For years Laurel LaMont has fought for better options for what she calls the “missing middle,” often referred to as workforce housing. Now she is being evicted.

The state is working on electronic benefit cards with security chips, but is behind schedule. Families are expected to be able to use them in January.

California has the unenviable position of having the nation's highest level of poverty, a new calculation shows, driven by its sky-high living costs. It's not the first time and likely won't be the last.

In an increasingly cashless society, unbanked and underbanked Californians are being locked out of the economy. Cashless business bans and a public banking option could promise a solution.

The federal government is clawing huge amounts of unused pandemic benefits for hungry kids in California. The new summer EBT program aims to overcome past failures, but cards have a shorter shelf life.

Just before she was elected to Ventura City Council Liz Campos was evicted. Now she lives in a van and she has ideas about how to help others who have no home.