Fear of deportation has multiplied to a new degree because of Trump’s pledges throughout the campaign and since taking office to crack down on illegal immigration and build a border wall with Mexico.
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Proposed cuts to federal environmental funding will place a higher burden on the state and local government to finance restoration of the Bay Area’s wetlands.
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The detailed 2018 budget proposal released by The White House last week decreases funding to the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 30 percent — one of the largest requested cuts to a federal agency.
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Since President Donald Trump’s election victory, more women are investing in long-term birth control out of precaution of possible policy changes.
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Data that tracks anti-Muslim hate crimes is spotty, making it difficulty to accurately quantify the full scale of these crimes across California and the nation.
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Although favor for capital punishment in the U.S. generally aligns with those on the political right, California has now broken from leftist death penalty propositions twice since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978.
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If Trump’s FY 2018 budget proposal passes, the National Endowment for the Arts would lose all of its federal budget support — nearly $148 million, the equivalent of 45 cents per American.
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Bay Area activists marched in solidarity with the Native Nations March happening on the same day in Washington D.C.
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In the aftermath of January’s Women’s March, activists are faced with a crucial dilemma: what comes next and will the spirit of the march stay alive?
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On the other coast since Inauguration Day, New York activists have continued to turn out in record numbers for political rallies across the city.
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To bring context to recent events, we used Legos to help visualize the Women’s March, executive order protests and the numbers of refugees in the country.
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The number of refugees coming from Iraq, Somalia and Bhutan has actually decreased or remained stable from 2014 to 2015.
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