Lynn La
Lynn La is the WhatMatters newsletter writer. Prior to joining CalMatters, she developed thought leadership at an edtech company and was a senior editor at CNET. She also covered public health at The Sacramento Bee as a Kaiser media fellow and was an intern reporter at Capitol Weekly. She's a graduate of UC Davis and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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California nurses call Trump’s student loan cap ‘an attack’ on profession
Will a cap on student loans discourage Californians from becoming nurses? We may find out. The Trump administration is proposing to restrict the amount of money nursing students can borrow...

Newsom to deploy California National Guard after millions at risk of delayed food assistance in shutdown
The governor unveiled the move, days after the California Department of Social Services began notifying counties to prepare for the possibility that federally-funded food benefits.

Cal State faculty set to strike if demands not met
The California Faculty Association said Monday that 95% of its members who voted approved of the strike plans. The union refused to reveal how many of its members actually cast...

California, U.S. on collision course on welfare work requirement
President Biden signed on Saturday a last-ditch bill to raise the national debt limit that includes Republican-forced provisions for stricter work requirements on welfare recipients. But California is headed in...

Which bills will become new California laws?
Just in time to go home for Memorial Day weekend, legislators bulldozed their way through a bunch of bills at the end of this week to beat the even bigger...
