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Following the stories of undocumented Americans durning the coronavirus pandemic

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At La Cocina, COVID-19 changed everything—except its baked-in resiliency

July 8, 2020 by Natalia Gurevich

Spring at La Cocina, a nonprofit incubator for low-income food entrepreneurs, means entrepreneurs ironing out the details of business dreams: how to price menu items, scale up recipes for large batches, and design their ideal restaurants. It’s a hard, creative, and exhilarating process, but getting a spot in La Cocina’s program means the immigrant or […]

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Non-Profit Emerges to Provide Aid to Undocumented

July 7, 2020 by Annika Hom

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As the city shut down in mid-March, dozens of community leaders hopped on a Zoom call to discuss the inevitable. Millions of workers nationwide would be affected by the coronavirus, and members of Jobs with Justice San Francisco, a worker’s rights coalition, wanted to help. They realized the city’s undocumented residents – estimated at some […]

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Dialing for dollars: Undocumented immigrants struggle with swamped phone system to obtain California COVID-19 funds

June 22, 2020 by Annika Hom

At food lines wrapping around blocks, Mission District residents talk about the difficulty of getting state assistance. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Otero said that one of the hardest requirements to prove is how immigrants were affected by COVID-19.

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This project is supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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