With the arrival of the fourth month of the year, families benefiting from assistance programs in California should mark their calendars to ensure access to their basic resources.

A handful of participants in the CalWORKs program that helps families pull out of poverty, were applauded recently at a “Champions” celebration in Escondido. The event highlighted the hard work and ...

Joy Perrin had been living in a van with her two children for several months when she walked into a welfare office in 2018. She had left an abusive partner and had failed her first semester at Laney ...

The working poor might get a boost today when El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meets for the first time since April 3. Recommendations will be heard from El Dorado County Social Services about ...

As California's finances deteriorated this year, one proposal by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would've eliminated CalWORKs, the state program that helps jobless people get training and skills to get ...

Santa Clara County honored five clients of a state assistance program and celebrated the success of those families in an awards ceremony at the county's Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Five South Bay families are being awarded for their determination and resilience. On Monday, Santa Clara County Supervisors recognized families from the CalWORKs program, who ...

Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. Phil Ansell, director of the Los Angeles County Department of ...

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