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Hybrid, CalMatters Live
Work Pathways in Today's Economy
November 19, 2024 • 12:00 pm - 12:00 am
The James Irvine Foundation, One Bush Street Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94104
California employers need trained workers, and the state's residents need well-paying, quality jobs. What strategies are working to help fill job vacancies and provide family-sustaining jobs for workers?
Hybrid, SoCal Series
Is California's Mental Health Parity Law Working?
November 13, 2024 • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Aquarium of the Pacific, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802
California passed landmark parity legislation in 2020, requiring health plans to provide enrollees with all medically necessary mental health and addiction treatment. Four years later, people seeking care say they still see major gaps between what the law requires and what insurers provide. We'll discuss where things are and what comes next.
Hybrid, SoCal Series
Addressing Homelessness in LA: A Deep Dive into Measure A
October 09, 2024 • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Studio MLA, 251 South Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Los Angeles County is home to more than 75,000 unhoused people -- more than two-thirds of whom live on the street, according to the county's point-in-time count data. Measure A is supposed to help change that by raising taxes on certain items sold in the county. What exactly would this measure do, and could it make a dent in the problem?
Hybrid, Sacramento Sessions
One-on-one with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara
September 19, 2024 • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CalMatters Studio, 1303 J Street, Suite 200, Sacramento, CA 95814
A year after he first unveiled his multi-part plan to address insurance availability and affordability issues, Commissioner Ricardo Lara will talk with CalMatters about his efforts to stabilize the state's insurance market, what else needs to be done and who else should be involved.
Virtual, Sacramento Sessions
The Battles Over California’s Groundwater
September 12, 2024 • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
This year, for the first time in California history, state officials have taken steps toward cracking down on groundwater depletion in the state’s agricultural heartland. This conversation will consider the consequences of California’s groundwater law for farms and communities.
Hybrid
2024 Ideas Festival
June 05, 2024 10:30 am - June 06, 2024 8:00 pm
Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel, 1230 J St, Sacramento, CA 95814
The two-day festival features more than a dozen events examining critical policy issues impacting the lives of millions of Californians.
Hybrid, Sacramento Sessions
No Deliveries: When Maternity Wards Close, Where Do Patients Go?
March 27, 2024 • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CalMatters Studio, 1303 J Street, Suite 200, Sacramento, CA 95814
California maternity wards are closing at a record pace. In the last decade, at least 46 hospitals have stopped labor and delivery services, a trend that accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, a CalMatters investigation found.
Hybrid, CalMatters Live
Farmworker Health: How Can California Protect its Essential Workers?
February 22, 2024 • 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Bakersfield 3100 Camino Del Rio Court Bakersfield
California is home to roughly half a million farmworkers. The majority of them work and live in the rich agricultural lands of the San Joaquin Valley. They’re an essential part of California’s $54 billion agricultural industry, yet are exposed to harsh working conditions, lack access to medical care and have little recourse when workplace safety rules are violated.
Hybrid, Sacramento Sessions
Book Bans and Pronoun Wars: What's in Store for School Boards in 2024
February 13, 2024 • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CalMatters Studio, 1303 J Street, Suite 200, Sacramento, CA 95814
From book bans to forced outing policies and fights over pronouns, political skirmishes have erupted at California's schools boards. Find out how these issues are dividing school communities, how the state is responding, and what the public can expect as we get closer to the 2024 elections.
Hybrid, Sacramento Sessions
California Is Embarking on a Billion-Dollar Overhaul to Unemployment (& More)
January 24, 2024 • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CalMatters Studio, 1303 J Street, Suite 200, Sacramento, CA 95814
As California embarks on an unprecedented $1.2 billion overhaul of the employment safety net, what lessons have the EDD and state regulators learned from mass COVID unemployment delays, a historic wave of fraud and years of stop-and-start reforms?