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Nearly $30 million has been allocated in the past week for major infrastructure to start to bring safe, reliable water to residents in the east Coachella Valley, where thousands of residents live in scores of mobile home parks with toxic water wells and open sewage pits.
Hispanic lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden to follow through on a campaign promise to cancel student loan debt that they say falls especially hard on Hispanic and Latino Americans.
In a letter dated April 25, Representative Raul Ruiz, a California Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, asked the Biden administration to honor a pledge to cancel up to $10,000 in student loan debt for each current borrower, as well as to extend the pandemic-era payment moratorium through the end of 2022.
President Biden's scheduled meeting with Hispanic Democrats touched on a series of issues affecting Latino communities, but kitchen table topics were overshadowed by the ongoing debate over the termination of Title 42.
Seven members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) met with Biden for over an hour at the White House Monday, seeking to present a unified front on an issue that Republicans are exploiting to paint a picture of chaos at the border.
Residents living near the Salton Sea say they understand the much-hyped potential of the area for lithium extraction, but they want the federal government to understand the existing health concerns plaguing the community caused by the receding sea, and want to make sure the new industry doesn't exacerbate those issues.
As guests arrived on the blue carpet for the 28th Annual Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards (aka The Chase) held in Palm Springs, California, on Saturday, April 9, the temperature hovered in the 90s until the sun set behind the San Jacinto Mountains. But despite the heat, the community showed up in full force and raised $1.4 million to support the work of DAP Health, an advocacy-based health care center in Palm Springs that serves more than 10,000 individuals in the Coachella Valley.
Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency calling for the agency to identify long-term solutions to the arsenic-contaminated drinking water in mobile home parks and communities in the Eastern Coachella Valley.
New York (CNN Business)- Leading oil company CEOs declined on Wednesday to endorse a call from Democrats to reduce dividends and share buybacks and plow the money into ramping up production instead.
Congressman Raul Ruiz (D-La Quinta) visited Beaumont last week following a recent procurement of $10 million for infrastructure-related projects in the San Gorgonio Pass area.
On March 25 he joined city leaders from Banning and Beaumont at Beaumont city hall to get feedback on the cities' intentions, following the March 9 finalization of allocations from the House Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed last November.
Economic prospects gradually improved for Americans across racial and ethnic demographics in the second half of the 2010s, but significant financial gaps between groups persist, according to new data from the Census Bureau. And the COVID-19 pandemic likely stalled many of those gains for all Americans, experts said.
The bureau'sAmerican Community Survey estimates for 2016 through 2020 show median household incomeclimbed to $64,994, up 10% from 2011 to 2015. People of color saw the biggest percentage gains, according to a USA TODAY analysis of the data.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) called on the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to jointly develop a near-term funding plan to restore wildlife habitat along the Salton Sea and prevent toxic dust from federal land from blowing into the surrounding communities. In a letter addressed to the DOI Secretary Deb Haaland, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, and the USACE Assistant Secretary for Civil Works Michael Connor, Dr.