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 ...

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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 ...

Established in 2014, the CalWORKs Housing Support Program is used to offer housing stability to families that are either about to experience or experiencing homelessness right now. This program offers ...

The California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program is a cornerstone of social assistance in the ...

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 ...

Day 1 for the 28 first-term members of the Assembly and 10 members of the Senate who were sworn into office Monday gave them a taste of just how dysfunctional the Legislature has become. Gov. Arnold ...

Some 1,200 impoverished Marin families, including 2,000 children, would lose cash assistance and job training if the CalWorks program is scrapped as recommended in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s revised ...

The centerpiece of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s state budget proposals is the wholesale elimination of the CalWORKS program, the state’s welfare-to-work program begun in 1997. Over 1.4 ...

Raising twins as a working single mother became a bigger challenge for Gente Tesfai when she suffered a knee injury that required major surgery, leaving her unable to return to work. That’s when she ...