A lot is at stake in the #2024Election
Minimum wage could rise
Rent control could be expanded
School & community college facilities improved
Affordable housing created
📰: https://t.co/lQodYrHRHr
Thanks @boyleheightsbt & @CaloNewsLA for cross-publishing 7 of 14 voter stories
Important story about drastic cuts proposed by the state to the CSUs and the impact on our own @CalStateLA. It's by our @UTCommunityNews students - thanks to @boyleheightsbt & @csula_ut for publishing it
A proposal to increase minimum wage is being watched closely by @calstate and @CalCommColleges students and others. Do you plan to vote in favor of the ballot measure?
Please consider checking out & sharing this Voter Guide by our @CalStateLA students: https://t.co/hda3Zi7SMQ.👏🏽
The reporters & I are grateful to our newsroom partners, @boyleheightsbt & @CaloNewsLA, for running half of the stories on their sites first. Read them on this 🧵
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The city of Monterey Park wants to raise $1.2M in funds to use for general city services. The catch with most measures like this is that taxes usually rise.
But with Measure BE, there’s a twist.
✍️: Queena Duong
https://t.co/DK15JdSKr0
Los Angeles County is attempting to tackle the severe homelessness crisis, and a new proposal could be a game-changer.
✍️: @haleefit (Halee Mosley)
https://t.co/MAic8OX5Y9
Like many opponents of ballot measure ME to raise funds for El Monte schools, Michael Murro worries the funds won’t be used well.
What’s surprising about Murro’s position is that he is a years-long educator himself.
✍️: Kara Alexander
https://t.co/PUrpDn1KAM
Since being robbed at gunpoint, Koreatown business owner Sun-Ah Jin is in favor of efforts to fight crime in the neighborhood & supports Prop.36
✍️: @thisischung_ https://t.co/qH9rRnMmup
Good healthcare can be tough to find. The cheaper the insurance, the less likely the patient will get the resources, medical supplies and prescription drugs needed. Supporters of Prop. 34 say the measure could help.
✍️: @wheelz_619 (Thomas Davila)
https://t.co/87ADZzkCy4
A rent control measure returns to the ballot this November, allowing voters to weigh in on the future of California’s housing market.
✍️: Lara Barney & Cynthia Harbott
https://t.co/eexX5YNdw3
Prop. 6 would prohibit forced labor in prisons. It's widely supported. A group opposed said work such as laundry & landscaping is crucial: “If the prisons have to pay higher wages [for it], it’s going to cost the taxpayers a lot"
✍️: Tupac Zapata
https://t.co/rB0Yck8Jwi
San Pedro Resident Isaiah Hicks’ apartment is plagued with the kind of infrastructure issues that Prop. 5 could potentially help address: Aging pipes, chipped paint, cracks in the stairs. “It’s dangerous," Hicks said.
✍️: @lesliee_dee96 (Leslie Hudson)
https://t.co/ekTsANmSLx
A lot is at stake in the #2024Election
Minimum wage could rise
Rent control could be expanded
School & community college facilities improved
Affordable housing created
📰: https://t.co/lQodYrHRHr
Thanks @boyleheightsbt & @CaloNewsLA for cross-publishing 7 of 14 voter stories
Same-sex marriage was legalized in California in 2013 and in the United States in 2015.
But the California Constitution reads, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
What gives?
https://t.co/zmeT14EFtY
✍️: @anjanettegile (Anjanette Gile)
Broken water fountains. Bathrooms out of service. Tagged walls. Desks scratched up or jiggling from missing parts.
These were some conditions of public schools attended by Cal State LA students interviewed recently.
https://t.co/dawaVRGSqt
✍️: Emmanuel Martinez