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Riverside County to provide sick farmworkers with quarantine housing, wage assistance

Riverside County is rolling out a new program to keep Coachella Valley farm workers and their families safe from coronavirus. Temporary housing will be provided, including hotel and motel rooms, for farmworkers who have been exposed to or tested positive with the virus if they can’t self-isolate at home. “We’re celebrating right now because Riverside County makes

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Board to consider establishing temporary job training, placement program

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors is slated Tuesday to approve $4 million for a jobs program intended to help low-income residents who have been financially impacted by the government public health shutdowns necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic. Supervisors Kevin Jeffries and Jeff Hewitt jointly proposed the “Pathways to Employment” program, which relies on the

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