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She reported that out-of-state crime rings use children, as they are even less likely to be prosecuted, and that even when police make arrests, charges are dropped or downgraded by the district attorney. [36] According to the Public Policy Institute of California, [37] violent crime in California rose by 5.7% between 2021 and 2022.
The California Children's Services (CCS) Program, established in 1927, is a partnership between state and counties that provides medical case management for children in California diagnosed with serious chronic diseases. [1] [2] It provides services to more than 165,000 children in California. [2]
Reduced-price meal is a term used in the United States to describe a federally reimbursable meal, or snack, served to a qualified child when the family of the child's income is between 130 and 185 percent of the US federal poverty threshold.
California used to send foster youths with serious behavior problems to out-of-state treatment programs, but after numerous reports of abuse, state lawmakers in 2021 banned those placements.
Medical devices are expensive because the process of designing and approving them is extensive and costly, requiring that they be sold at higher than market price. The costs include research, design and development, meeting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's regulatory guidelines, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and business plan. [280]
In 2014, with a promise to help those in need, Californians passed Proposition 47 which reduced virtually all theft and drug crimes to misdemeanors. Sadly, while well intended, it has become ...
Impossibly high home prices are ‘feudalizing’ California as unaffordable housing markets pose existential threat to middle class, study says Jason Ma June 16, 2024 at 1:47 PM
For scale, cutting administrative costs to peer country levels would represent roughly one-third to half the gap. A 2009 study from Price Waterhouse Coopers estimated $210 billion in savings from unnecessary billing and administrative costs, a figure that would be considerably higher in 2015 dollars. [50] Cost variation across hospital regions.