CALIFORNIA TO PROVIDE $20 MILLION TO FLOODED TOWN

CALIFORNIA TO PROVIDE $20 MILLION TO FLOODED TOWN

July 14, 2023 1:27 pm

Many of the 4,000 people who live in Planada, an agricultural community nine miles east of Merced, are undocumented, as are most California farmworkers. That meant that 41 percent of the flood-damaged households in Planada were ineligible for federal disaster aid, according to an analysis by the University of California, Merced, Community and Labor Center. And nearly 60 percent of the Planada households in which at least one member lost work were unable to apply for unemployment benefits