By Jackie Botts, Cal Matters, October 10, 2019
Lawmakers have passed a suite of bills that aim to ease financial burdens for Californians living paycheck to paycheck.
While several new California laws have sparked national attention — such as the law that will convert gig economy workers into full employees and another to cap large rent increases — state legislators quietly approved dozens of other bills that address challenges faced by California’s poor.
Among this year’s batch of anti-poverty bills, several tinker with public assistance programs to make them easier to get and to use. Others aim to protect people from financial catastrophes caused by crushing debt.
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