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While the Supreme Court mulls the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan, California moved to provide some relief to borrowers who had student loans forgiven during the pandemic. Part of a slate of budget bills signed into law…

SACRAMENTO  — San Francisco resident Pia Harris hopes for reparations in her lifetime. But the nonprofit program director is not confident that California lawmakers will turn the recommendations of a first-in-the-nation task force into…

If your medicine cabinet is low on COVID tests, you only have a few days left to stock up for free from the federal government. And starting Friday, the feds also will no longer protect patients from being billed for their COVID testing.…

Big data is big business. An estimated 2,000-4,000 data brokers around the world have created an estimated $200 billion industry from the data they collect, largely without consumers’ knowledge. Acxiom, one of the leading global brokers,…

A growing number of California’s oldest residents are dying of malnutrition, a yearslong trend that accelerated during the COVID pandemic.Deaths attributed to malnutrition more than doubled, from about 650 in 2018 to roughly 1,400 in…

By Amy Yee and Alex Tanzi | Bloomberg US foreclosure filings jumped 22% in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago, according to a report from real estate data analytics firm ATTOM. While still below pre-pandemic levels,…

BY ADAM ECHELMAN | CalMatters Thousands of adult Californians without a high school diploma want to take college classes. Unfortunately, those classes aren’t free, and the lack of a high school diploma cuts off access to most financial…

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new state contract on Saturday morning, March 18, that officials say will leverage the state’s generic drug label to bring $30 insulin to California, cutting costs for the medicine by 90% — while saving…

Florida is likely to continue to draw older people and retirees, but just how much it will attract others will depend on what happens with housing prices and economic growth in both states. “What’s new is that Florida has emerged as an…

LA VENTANA, Mexico —  Days after Kirk Robinson got fired from a corporate job he hated, he and a windsurfing buddy loaded their gear into his Volkswagen van and headed south from Los Angeles in search of a mythic beach.It was the early…