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    California’s child farmworkers: exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields

    Posted in Agriculture by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    Los niños jornaleros de California: agotados, mal pagados y trabajando en campos de cultivo tóxicos

    Posted in Agriculture by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    Q+A: How Hawaiian princes brought surfing to Santa Cruz

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    Monterey County awards new $139 million jail health care contract

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    Los temores a ICE están perjudicando la salud pública

    Posted in Español by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    ‘Te acaban de llevar’

    Posted in Español by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    With little apparent evidence, DA investigators question petition process

    Posted in Features by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    Programa de cocinas domésticas del condado de Monterey abre nuevas oportunidades

    Posted in Economy/Business by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    Se estima que 80,000 personas en los condados de Monterey y Santa Cruz dependen de los beneficios del SNAP

    Posted in Features by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    Roughly 80,000 people in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties depend on SNAP benefits

    Posted in Features by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    When this California Spanish-language TV station closed, a news desert opened for Latino viewers

    Posted in Features by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    Immigration fears are harming public health

    Posted in Features by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    ‘They just took you away’

    Posted in Features by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    Five questions about the crisis in local news

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    Monterey County’s home kitchen program opens new opportunities

    Posted in Economy/Business by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    Do art. Be kind.

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    A young Salinas resident recounts her journey through the mental health system

    Posted in Education by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    California lawmakers may limit childhood sex abuse survivors’ ability to sue

    Posted in Features by Sara Tiano
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    King City boy wants to become the future of music in Monterey County

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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    Salinas officials are poised to cross the church-state divide

    Posted in Features by Yajaira Garcia Meza
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About Yajaira Garcia Meza

Yajaira Garcia Meza grew up in Soledad and Greenfield most of her life. She graduated from Greenfield High School in 2016 and is about to finish her Bachelors of Arts in Political Science, with a minor in Public Policy, at the University of California, Berkeley.

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