Karina Nova and Juan Carlos Guerrero SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Carnaval returns to San Francisco for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The two-day event attracts thousands to the Mission District for a festival and a colorful parade. In 2019, among the samba dancers, drummers and school bands, a group of women also marched and danced…
Josie Huang In California, millions of older adults and people with disabilities get help at home with bathing, eating and cleaning, allowing them to stay in a familiar setting. Demand for these services is expected to only surge over the next decade, as the youngest of the baby boomers enter their 60s and 70s. But…
Josie Huang Clustered in a residential neighborhood in West Hills are six ‘50s-era low-slung houses converted into board and care facilities — part of an industry fast expanding to serve the waves of California baby boomers aging into illness and disability. And it’s where, regulators say, the staff — almost entirely Filipina women — worked…
NPR Nannies, house cleaners, gardeners and other San Francisco domestic workers must be given paid sick leave under a groundbreaking law approved by city leaders this week. The city’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed the legislation, which the San Francisco Chronicle said is the first of its kind in the U.S. The measure would affect…