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The Trump administration’s policies on issues such as climate change and immigration have received considerable push-back from local and state groups, but there’s one White House proposal flying relatively under the radar that has many local nonprofits worried. Looming over human-services organizations across the country is a provision of the administration’s… Read more »

Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, recognized Equal Pay Day on Tuesday and co-sponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation that would strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and guarantee women can challenge pay discrimination. Equal Pay Day symbolizes the date when women's wages finally catch up to what men were paid in the previous year. "Over 50 years after the Equal Pay… Read more »