‘Spanish’ Archive

Kids without coverage a risk for all kids

Friday, July 1st, 2011

A new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research estimates that up to 220,000 California children may be excluded from affordable health care coverage under health care reform due to their immigrant status.

The number represents approximately 20 percent of all uninsured children in California. 

Of those children, up to 40,000 may be … [ Read full post ]

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Fighting an air pollution “Goliath”

Friday, May 13th, 2011
ALERT Skill Clinic (March 18, 2011) 012

How do you stop a giant freeway from bulldozing its way through your neighborhood?  In a March 18  ALERT project advocacy skill clinic, community groups from Boyle Heights and Long Beach, as well as UCLA academics, learned first-hand how a “David” of an advocacy campaign stopped a “Goliath” of a multi-million dollar freeway project in … [ Read full post ]

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