We are the only high-income country that does not guarantee health coverage. We have among the lowest rates of physician visits and practicing physicians, the lowest number of hospital beds, and the shortest hospital stays. We live the shortest lives and have the most avoidable deaths. Our health care access and experience is the least equitable. We have the highest rate of infant and maternal deaths. The problem is profit-seeking. We need public-funded health care for everyone.

Over fifty percent of Sacramento residents are renters. About thirty percent of renters in Sacramento report paying half of their income on rent, and about half of all renters reported paying more than 35% of their income on rent. This is not affordable—and it is not sustainable. As a result of high rents and a lack of public housing support, nearly 10,000 people are living unhoused in Sacramento County on any given night. We must mobilize to win housing for everybody in our community.

SEIU 2015 is hosting a resource fair at their membership hall, with appetizers, prizes, and a variety of resources and services. For more information, contact Ivory Watts at ivoryw@seiu2015.org.

The California Alliance for Retired Americans is hosting a Zoom forum next Friday, January 24 at noon, to discuss what’s on the horizon for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and how we can organize to defend these essential programs from attack by the new administration and Congress. Speakers will include: Lorena Gonzalez, President of the California Federation of Labor Unions; Jaimie Worker, Director of Public Policy at Caring Across Generations; and David Simon, Legislative Representative at the Alliance for Retired Americans. To register to attend the forum, click the link:

RSVP for CARA Zoom Forum

Sac CLC will be at Grant Union High School early on Monday morning, and we invite you all to join us at the march. The assembly begins at 8 am, program begins at 9 am, and the march launches at 10 am, after which there will be a resource fair and strategy sessions in the afternoon. Come out and honor one of this nation’s great champions of the labor movement.

we will be standing with working people at the Robert T. Matsui Federal Courthouse at 501 I Street, as part of a national mobilization of demonstrations against the billionaires’ agenda across the country leading up to the inauguration.

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The California Jobs First/We Prosper Together Catalyst Fund is providing $9 million in grant support for emerging projects that create pathways to quality jobs in Northern California.

Our program consultant Zach Freels and Scarlette Bustos of The Ring of Democracy will lead a workshop on developing grant proposals to submit to the Catalyst Pre-Development Project Request for Proposals (RFP), which is accepting submissions until February 2, 2025.

For more information, check out the Catalyst RFP and RSVP for this workshop.