President John F. Kennedy Signed Into Law
‘The Equal Pay Act of 1963’ –Image: Pinterest
(LA Biz) California Democrat controlled legislature bans employers from paying different wages based on gender for substantially the same work, heads to Governor’s desk. — Has been federal law for the past 52 years.
September is ‘Natl Suicide Prevention Month’ Lets Start it by Praying for All Those Thinking About Ending Their Lives, Especially for Those Who are Looking for Doctor-Assisted Suicide —Respect Life Los Angeles
Gov Moonbeam, How’s he Working Out for You?
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(KPCC) More than 770,000 Seniors in California are not making enough to get by but are not considered poor enough by the Obama Administration, according to a UCLA health policy study challenging the definition of poverty in America.
According to the study brief released on Monday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, about 340,000 California residents 65 or older are considered poor based on the Federal Poverty Level which makes them eligible for public assistance programs but in an analysis of 2009-2011 U.S. Census data the researchers concluded about 772,000 more Seniors in California could use help but are not considered ‘poor enough’ Imelda Padilla-Frausto, a graduate student researcher at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and lead author of the study said Monday.
“They don’t have enough income to meet a minimally decent standard of living,” — the ‘hidden poor’ made more than the 2011 poverty level which was $10,890 a year for someone living alone but their annual income was less than $23,364–the amount a Senior need to make ends meet according to the Elder Index which estimates the cost of living county-by-county raking into consideration how much one spends on housing, medical care, food and transportation.
Padilla-Frausto said the federal-poverty level is too rigid to measure whether people need assistance because it sets an across the board guideline (standard) no matter how expensive one state or area may be compared with the rest of the country.
The UCLA study found more single Seniors among the ‘hidden poor’ in rural areas such as Nevada, Plumas and Sierra Counties in Northern California–Imperial County has the highest percentage in the state. More than 40% of its elderly residents are living just above the federal poverty line but below the California Elder Index.
Grandparents raising their grandchildren and Seniors who have adult children living with them are more likely to be among the ‘hidden poor’ according to the UCLA study.
California Personal Data at Risk –Image: CalWatchdog
(AllGov) Although California is a prime-target for computer data breaches, only 4 out of 77 state entities responding to surveys from the California State Auditor, indicated that they were in full compliance with security standards.
They were crummy at “information and asset risk management, information security incident management and technology recovery.” The audit warned that their vulnerabilities could prevent them from performing day-to-day operations which could jeopardize public health, wealth and safety.
The Auditor laid blame at the feet of the California Dept of Technology — Not only is the department not addressing these deficiencies, “until our audit, it was not aware that many reporting entities had not complied with its requirements.”
Forty one of the entities surveyed by the Auditor had told the technology department they were 100% compliant with security standards. As it turns out only 4 were. — The Auditor’s emphasizes that important private data could include medical, tax and other sensitive information, like Social Security numbers.
In June, the federal ‘Office of Personal Management’ announced a major hack that exposed personal information of about 20 million current and former federal employees and job applicants.
According to California Auditor Elaine Howle, “Given the size of California’s economy and the value of its information, if unauthorized parties were to gain access to this information, the costs both to the state and to the individuals involved could be enormous.”
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Los Angeles ‘Protest Planned Parenthood’ Rally –Images: Live Action
Los Angeles ‘Planned Parenthood Protest’
Los Angeles Participating in ‘Nationwide Planned Parenthood Protest’
Estimated 275 Protested Planned Parenthood Saturday in Long Beach
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Aurora, Illinois Protesting Planned Parenthood –Image: ProLifeAction
Falls Church, VA ‘Protesting Planned Parenthood’
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(LA Daily News) The number of homeless children across the nation is a very serious problem but especially troublesome is California according to a Researchers with the National Center on Family Homelessness with the state accounting for one-fifth of the homeless children.
Nationally between 2012 and 2013 the number of children experiencing homelessness increased 8% — California which ranked 48th in child homelessness, the rise was 4% increasing from 505,562 in 2012 to 526,708 in 2013
- Realizing the serious nature of the critical need of ‘Homes for Children’ we’ll soon be announcing our exciting plans to establish and open new homes for orphaned and homeless children.
Should you wish to help in anyway or may know of others who may, please contact me directly by email:
Human Life is a Sacred Gift from God –Image: Respect Life LA
“This morning, proponents of doctor-prescribed suicide once again put the lives of California’s poor, sick and disabled at risk. SB-128 which was defeated in July, has come back for a Special Session as AB 2X 15
This process allows legislators to fast-track this bill, it attempts to push a life or death issue into law quickly without adequate review or debate…Legalizing assisted suicide will endanger the lives of the poor, those in immigrant and minority communities.”
Archbishop Jose Gomez, Archdiocese Los Angeles@Facebook
- Please Join Today in Opposing Assisted Suicide — Contact Your Assembly Member here and Tell Them Doctor Prescribed Death is Bad for California
Fires Burning Throughout California Today –Image: NSPR News
(LA Daily News) Firefighters continue battling a blaze that has scorched more than 300 rugged acres and has burned six structures in the Castaic Lake area, the U.S. Forest Service has reported.
The ‘Warm Fire’ in Castaic Lake Area has Grown to 300+ Acres
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The ‘Warm Fire’ erupted about 3:30 PM Sunday near the shuttered Warm Spring Rehab Center according to the Forest Service–the fire was 30% contained this morning with 3 helicopters and a DC-10 tanker being used in the firefight.
There are reports that Cal Fire has received word from volunteers offering to work in the fight to help contain the wildfires but have not received replies. One such volunteer waiting to be contacted said:
“I know how to use a shovel, hoe and rake…one would think if you can breathe Cal Fire can use all of the help they can get.”
Maybe not? Since the 1940s its reported that California has depended on the cheap labor of ‘volunteer Inmates’ to help control wildfires. California Dept of Corrections boasts the largest Inmate firefighting in the country with around 4,000 Inmate Firefighters–Unlike civilian volunteer firefighters with Cal Fire who make $9.00 an hour, Inmates are paid $1.00 an hour when they’re on the lines risking their lives battling wildfires.
Which likely is the explanation why at least one such civilian volunteer has not received a call from Cal Fire and may never will?
Related: About 4,000 — 30% of Cal Fire Firefighters are Prisoners
Join Archbishop Jose Gomez and Thousands of Catholics at
Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels on Saturday 29 August at 3:00 PM for a Very Special Votive Mass in Honor of the Feast of Los Angeles Namesake ‘Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles’ Followed by a Grand Marian Procession for a Fiesta to Celebrate Los Angeles 235th Birthday
For More Information: Archdiocese of Los Angeles
California Exodus: Go East Young Man… -Image: Political News Now
(Bloomberg) Just ask California Air Resources Board Regulator Mary Nichols how to kill jobs and end prosperity in the ‘Golden State’ and she’ll tell you her plan: Ban the internal combustion engine from all roadways and force automakers to sell nothing but electric cars statewide.
There’s just a little tiny huge problem with this latest brainstorm from the wacky environmentalist left says Ozzie Zehner Researcher, Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and Author of Green Illusions, who in 2013 wrote in IEEE Spectrum that electric cars lead to hidden environmental and health dangers, together with producing only ‘marginally’ fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their gasoline or diesel counterparts adding:
A Norwegian study published October, 2012 in the ‘Journal of Industrial Ecology’ compared life-cycle impacts of electric vehicles. The researchers considered acid rain, airborne particulates, water pollution, smog and toxicity to humans as well as depletion of fossil fuel and mineral resources. According co-author Anders Stromman, ‘electric vehicles consistently perform worse on or par with modern internal combustion engine vehicles, despite virtual zero direct emissions during operation.’
“Moving from petroleum fueled vehicles to electric cars begins to look more-and-more like shifting from one brand of cigarette to another…Lets not be seduced by high-tech illusions.”
Related: Study Electric Cars No Greener than Gasoline Vehicles –UPI
Chandler, AZ ‘Protest Planned Parenthood Rally’ — Good to See So
2.5 Million Children in America — 1 in 30 Children Go Without a Home