Tag: CalWORKS

  • Welfare To Work Checks Reduced, Starting Today

    By Alison St John Beginning today, families in California’s Welfare to Work program will see an 8 percent reduction in their monthly benefit checks. It’s the result of cuts proposed in March and approved as part of the final state budget signed this week. In San Diego County 85,000 families are enrolled in Cal Works, the…

  • Tweet City Heights: Feral Dogs, Fried Brain Cells and Free Lunch

    By Megan Burks While we’re out researching and writing full-length features, 140 characters can go a long way in helping us keep readers up-to-date. But some tweets deserve more than that. That’s why I’m beginning a weekly feature here on SpeakCityHeights.org called Tweet City Heights. Each Friday, I’ll bring you the week’s Twitter chatter as…

  • A Rule Changes, a County Stumbles and Refugees Suffer

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published April 19, 2011 on When Amaal Al-Mifraji arrived in San Diego in February, the worst of her troubles appeared to be over. She and her two children, ages 17 and 20, settled into a small one-bedroom apartment in a sprawling complex in El Cajon, one among the…