March 4, 2021
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(Commentary co-written by UCLA’s Cecilia Rios-Aguilar) We are all ready to put COVID-19 behind us. But let us be clear: Few people have been squeezed harder by this pandemic than low-income Californians who are trying to get a college degree remotely while raising children who are also “doing school” from home. For them, recent and forthcoming financial supports from federal and state governments and their own campuses have been a critical lifeline.