Joy Perrin had been living in a van with her two children for several months when she walked into a welfare office in 2018. She had left an abusive partner and had failed her first semester at Laney ...

The California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) provides families - with children whose income and assets fall below the USA's maximum thresholds for their family size - with ...

Established in 2014, the CalWORKs Housing Support Program is used to offer housing stability to families that are either about to experience or experiencing homelessness right now. This program offers ...

A handful of participants in the CalWORKs program that helps families pull out of poverty, were applauded recently at a “Champions” celebration in Escondido. The event highlighted the hard work and ...

California will expand access to welfare, allowing more people previously excluded from federal cash aid to get help. The Administration for Children and Families chose California as one of five ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Five South Bay families are being awarded for their determination and resilience. On Monday, Santa Clara County Supervisors recognized families from the CalWORKs program, who ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (BCN)– Santa Clara County honored five clients of a state assistance program and celebrated the success of those families in an awards ceremony at the county’s Board of Supervisors ...

Day 1 for the 28 first-term members of the Assembly and 10 members of the Senate who were sworn into office Monday gave them a taste of just how dysfunctional the Legislature has become. Gov. Arnold ...

The centerpiece of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s state budget proposals is the wholesale elimination of the CalWORKS program, the state’s welfare-to-work program begun in 1997. Over 1.4 ...

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