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Does mRNA COVID Vaccine Interact With Your DNA? Will a Vaccine Hurt Pregnancy Chances?

'Vaccine hesitancy' is a growing concern, according to officials with the Fresno County Department of Public Health, that could prevent herd immunity if not addressed effectively. Some people are holding out for one reason or another. The Atlantic recently wrote a story about vaccine hesitancy where they explore a variety...

Walters: The Politics of Slow Population Growth

During the first decade of the 21st century, demographers in California’s Department of Finance and those in the U.S. Census Bureau found themselves in a genteel conflict. Years by year, the two agencies’ estimates of California’s population diverged, finally reaching a gap of about 1 million human beings. It was...

‘Not the Golden State Anymore’: Middle- and Low-Income People Leave California

In 2017, Susanna Cardenas-Lopez left her home in Salinas to visit her brother in Idaho. Three days into her trip, she called her husband and told him they needed to move there. Back in Salinas, Cardenas-Lopez and her husband were left out in the cold after their landlord decided to...

California Still Most Populous, but Stalls at 39.9 Million

SACRAMENTO — California's population has stalled at 39.9 million people as expensive housing prices and other factors convince more people to leave the state for other parts of the country. An estimate released Friday showed California added 141,300 people from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2019, bringing its total...

Census Bureau Seeks State Data, Including Citizenship Info

The U.S. Census Bureau is asking states for drivers' license records that typically include citizenship data and has made a new request for information on recipients of government assistance, alarming some civil rights advocates. The two approaches, documented by The Associated Press, come amid President Donald Trump's efforts to make...

Trump Insists He's Still Pushing Citizenship Question on Census

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday he is not dropping efforts to include a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 census, even as the U.S. Census Bureau has started the process of printing the questionnaire without it. "News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put...

Report: Blacks, Latinos at Risk of Undercount in 2020 Census

ORLANDO, Fla. — Emily Bonilla is worried her district in metro Orlando will be undercounted during next spring's once-in-a-decade head count of everybody in the United States because of who lives there: new arrivals, immigrants, the poor, renters and rural residents who sometimes regard government with suspicion. "We're growing so...

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