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As the state reshuffles vaccine distribution and reopening rules, lawmakers green-light a hard-fought plan to bring students back into schools. What does it all mean for economic recovery?
Lawmakers, businesses and educators are scrambling to understand California’s latest surprise shift in pandemic strategy, directly tying economic reopening rules to getting more people in low-income communities vaccinated. The changes are technical involving health index rankings and vaccine targets and case rates required for businesses to reopen but the practical effect could be speeding up school and business reopenings.
As states like Texas abandon pandemic precautions altogether, Gov. Gavin Newsom is attempting to bounce back from California’s deadliest bout of the virus by incorporating equity in distributing limited vaccine supply in a state where white, affluent people have disproportionately received early doses. The shift also rankled one union-aligned lawmaker who
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With these smart policy choices California can chart an equitable recovery by targeting those most in need and investing in long-term opportunity.
By Sarah Bohn
Sarah Bohn is vice president of research and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, bohn@ppic.org.
Dean Bonner
Dean Bonner is associate survey director and research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, bonner@ppic.org.
Vicki Hsieh, Special to CaMatters
Vicki Hsieh is senior editor at the Public Policy Institute of California, hsieh@picc.org.
Inequity has proven to be the primary challenge of this recession. Low-wage workers bear a bigger burden – from greater health risks to higher unemployment. And labor market declines have been concentrated among communities of color and women. Without deliberate policy action, this crisis portends a future of even higher income inequality and lower upward mobility.
Coronavirus Wipes Away Recent Wage Gains For Many California Workers, Report Finds Sunday, December 20, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
In this Nov. 19, 2020, file photo, Fabian Rodriguez cleans a table in an outdoor tented dining area of Tequila Museo Mayahuel restaurant, in Sacramento, Calif. Sales at restaurants and bars fell in October for the first time in six months.
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File
By Jackie Botts, CalMatters
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In the five years before the pandemic, low-income Californians had begun to see substantial wage gains, chipping away at the income inequality gap between California’s haves and have-nots that has widened over the past 40 years. But the coronavirus pandemic is “likely stripping away many of these gains,” researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California found in a new report.