Newsom signs $2.6 billion child care and early education bill
Governor Newsom signs a $2.6 billion bill for child care and early education
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a $2.6 billion Child Care and Early Education bill that would provide new and better resources for children and child care providers, KTVU s Tom Vacar reports.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark bill that would pump $2.6 billion into child care and early education in its first year on Friday.
It is a desperately needed relief to an industry that was so badly damaged by the pandemic, it actually slowed the state s recovery. Nonetheless, California is the third least affordable state for childcare in the nation.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced on Wednesday, May 5, that $3.75 million of the San Francisco Police Department’s budget will be funneled into Black-owned businesses as a result of a reinvestment by the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.
Breed said the money will be reallocated as part of an effort to address generations of race-based inequality in the West Coast city.
“Across this country, and in our City, we’ve seen how the Black community’s economic growth and prosperity has historically been disrupted and marginalized,” Breed said in a statement. “This funding is part our efforts to undo the harm of generations of disinvestment and economic inequities. As we work to recover and make San Francisco a better place to live, work, and do business, we have to invest our resources in a way that lifts up and supports African American small businesses owners, entrepreneurs, and the entire communit
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SAN FRANCISCO Between November 2019 and November 2020 there were: 42% more burglaries, 34% more cars being stolen, and 39% more arsons San Francisco. The quality of life crimes tolerance for drug use, public defecation, aggressive panhandling, etc. have dirtied the once beautiful city. Moreover, in the wake of the pandemic, people are fleeing to other states to get away from the Bay-area mess. Nevertheless, these issues do not phase San Francisco’s mayor, as a few days ago they declared they were going to move $3.75 million in funding from the police department and redirect it to black businesses instead, the Post Millennial reported.
6 May 2021
The mayor of San Francisco announced Wednesday that $3.75 million will be taken from the city’s police and sheriff’s office budget to go to help black organizations.
Mayor London Breed issued a statement about the Dream Keeper Initiative that will fund “nonprofits that serve the black community.”
“Across this country, and in our city, we’ve seen how the black community’s economic growth and prosperity has historically been disrupted and marginalized,” Breed said in the statement. “We have invested our resources in a way that lifts up and supports African American small business owners, entrepreneurs, and the entire community.”
S.F. shifts $3.75 million from law enforcement budgets to support Black business communities
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Mayor London Breed during a news conference at Chase Center, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in San Francisco, Calif. The city’s leaders will announced that S.F. is accelerating two of its climate policy goals. First, the city will commit to supplying 100% carbon-free electricity to CleanPowerSF customers by 2025, 5 years faster than originally planned. Second, the city will seek to become carbon-neutral, emitting no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, by 2045 instead of 2050.Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle
Mayor London Breed on Wednesday announced the distribution of a $3.75 million award intended to support training, technical assistance and neighborhood revitalization in San Francisco’s historically Black and African American small business communities.