New Santa Ana

CA gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton launches a California Fraud Reporting Website

SACRAMENTO, CA – California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week ...
Yahoo

California Bill Builds on Federal Indian Child Welfare Act

In a landmark decision, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has signed Assembly Bill 81 (AB 81) into law on California Native American Day, enhancing protections for Native American children, ...
Capital Public Radio

Welfare: As US tightens work rules, California considers loosening them

Just as Republicans in Congress are moving to beef up work requirements for people who receive welfare, California lawmakers are moving to do the opposite. Included in a recent state Assembly budget ...

Far-away foster placements, social service shortcomings keeping Alameda County foster kids from family reunification

Alameda County foster kids face increasingly long odds of being reunited with their families because of out-of-county ...
Napa Valley Register

Welfare reform needed to strengthen California

During the Rose Garden signing ceremony in August 1996 of his landmark welfare reform law, President Bill Clinton told a welfare-to-work story that had inspired him to join with congressional ...
IJR

Welfare Fraud Is Rampant In California, Now A Democrat Wants To Legalize It

A Democratic lawmaker in California is pushing legislation that would decriminalize most welfare fraud. State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas recently introduced SB 560, a bill that would eliminate ...
The Desert Sun

California is trying to make cash assistance more flexible for low income families

The first time April Acosta applied for cash assistance 18 years ago, the Baldwin Park mother of a 2-year-old thought it would help pull her out of a cycle of dead-end desk jobs. She signed up for ...