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Category: California

  • California Takes Bold Step to Reduce Homelessness with $1 Billion Plan for Tiny Homes

    California has long grappled with the issue of homelessness, with estimates showing one in five people living on the streets or in shelters across the state. But this week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a $1 billion plan to help reduce the number of homeless people in the state by 15 percent by 2025. The plan […]

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  • Image Recognition With Open Source Technology

    Image Recognition With Open Source Technology In this document, we will see whether a suitable dataset, workflow and existing scripting competence is sufficient for the development of an automatic image recognition process. The intention is tabulating common hazards, signs and issues seen on the field for non-profit case workers who manage chronically homeless. Image Ai, […]

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  • An AI Bot For Homelessness and Substance Abuse

    An AI Bot For Homelessness and Substance Abuse

    Substance Abuse and Homelessness are inextricably linked. Often times, the sad reality around homelessness involves heartache within families and individuals whose addictions have clouded their better judgment. This state of mind happens to also inhibit the ability to manage their housing situation with self esteem, hygiene and other basic experiences of an individual neglected in […]

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  • Chicano Chatter On Twitter

    Chicano Chatter On Twitter

    Check out the latest chatter from people using the word ‘Chicano’ on twitter. In an effort to highlight more content, we developed a few database queries to routinely retrieve uncontroversial tweets. Some of these contain frivolous references or insightful comments. Unfortunately, in many social media platforms, some of the least informed content often gets more […]

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  • Mikey Garcia – A Manny Pacquiao Style Loss

    Mikey Garcia – A Manny Pacquiao Style Loss

    The Sandor Martin upset is reminiscent of the great Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao upset against Jeff Horn. In Fresno, California, Mikey Garcia delivered a slow and methodical performance against Sandor Martin. For his part, Martin delivered on the expected southpaw style, consistent jab and constant lateral movement – this proved more valuable to the California judges […]

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  • Survey: US Based Mexican Average Salary Between 47k to 67k Annually

    Survey: US Based Mexican Average Salary Between 47k to 67k Annually

    From May 2nd to May 5th of 2020, I gathered data with an online survey administered with the help of Mexican based Data Analysts who helped me recruit participants and review the data. My goal was to understand how COVID-19 affected my community’s economic status and employment prospects. The descriptions here apply to 77 confirmed […]

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  • Demographics of Apple Executives

    Most Decision Makers Are White EEOD DATA Indicates 99 out of 123 Execs Are White. Graphic of @Apple executives based on most recent EEOD data Recently, the National Labor Relations Board sued Apple. According to the suit, Apple has fired employees in a retaliatory fashion. The employee in question had alleged Sexual Harassment by a […]

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  • Elderly Asian Woman Robbed, Beaten In Oakland, California

    Elderly Asian Woman Robbed, Beaten In Oakland, California

    Betty Yu on Instagram: “OAKLAND GRANDMOTHER ROBBED A 71-year-old woman who just left the bank is seen knocked to the ground and robbed near 6th/International on…” CBS Oakland reporter, Betty Yu, posted on her Instagram account disturbing footage of a group of males who robbed and beat an elderly Asian woman as she had exited […]

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  • Southern California: Chicanos Express Outrage Over Attacks On Asian Elderly

    Southern California: Chicanos Express Outrage Over Attacks On Asian Elderly

    Throughout the day, Chicano communities have expressed outrage over violence against Asians stemming from false narratives around the pandemic. In Southern California, Chicano sentiment expresses solidarity with Asian community. This could be observed through social media postings from influential people within the community, like El Indio Botanas & Cervezas. Due to the vast amounts of […]

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  • Whose Getting Covid-19 Fatigue?

    Whose Getting Covid-19 Fatigue?

    There are a few ways to interpret the data we have amassed under the web application in Chicano Press. Today, we try to compare the aggregate infection counts to prior months. We hope to infer whose in some sense improving relative to where they were the month before. I’m sure there is a more sophisticated […]

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