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Free Tax Prep Not Free

FromKQED's The California Report

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Apr 1, 2022

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The FTC is suing Intuit over its TurboTax software. The agency says the California-based company is misleading consumers by marketing the product as free.
Guest: Justin Elliot, ProPublica
A new push for mental health warnings on legal cannabis products.
Reporter: April Dembosky

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Apr 1, 2022

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KQED's statewide radio news program, providing daily coverage of issues, trends, and public policy decisions affecting California and its diverse population.

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Families Brace for Coronavirus School Closures: Governor Advises Seniors to Stay Home Governor Gavin Newsom has called for nightclubs, bars, and wineries to shut down for now. Restaurants are to cut their occupancy in half. And, everyone 65 and older, and those with chronic health issues, by KQED's The California Report
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What the Coronavirus Pandemic Means for Courts: What the Coronavirus Pandemic Means for Children's Courts In Los Angeles, the Edelman Children’s courthouse has been closed for most of the week because of the outbreak. It handles some of our state’s most delicate cases, by KQED's The California Report
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Will High School Seniors Graduate Amid Pandemic?: Health Insurance Rates Could Rise After Pandemic Health insurance costs could soar in the coming year because of the price of treating coronavirus and taking other health care measures. Reporter: April Dembosky, KQED by KQED's The California Report
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Governor Newsom: Californians Should Stay Home: Governor Newsom: Californians Should Stay Home The governor asked all Californians to stay home and leave only for essential trips, to slow the spread of the coronavirus. State officials estimate could infect more than half the population without coll... by KQED's The California Report
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Campus Life Is Suddenly Over For Graduating Seniors: OC Hospital Using Plasma Treatment For COVID-19 In Orange County, a hospital is experimenting with a way to help patients hit hard by COVID-19. They’ve successfully transferred plasma from the blood of someone who’s recovered from the illness into som... by KQED's The California Report
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Hospitals Brace for Wave of COVID-19 Patients: PG&E Pleads Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter for Camp Fire PG&E said Monday that it is pleading guilty to 85 criminal counts in connection with the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County, a blaze that killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 14, by KQED's The California Report
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COVID-19 Medical Supply Shortages: Why and What to Do?: COVID-19 Medical Supply Shortages: Why and What to Do? This weekend, we learned from Governor Gavin Newsom that the federal government sent 170 ventilators from the national stockpile to L.A. County. But they didn't work. by KQED's The California Report
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From Social Distancing to Shelter-in-Place: Social Distancing Escalates to Shelter-in-Place As of midnight, the Bay Area has the nation’s strictest policy aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus. Residents are being instructed to not leave the house for the next three weeks unless it's ... by KQED's The California Report
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Animal Shelters Emptying As Humans Shelter-In-Place: CA Won't Go Back To 'Normal' Anytime Soon Governor Gavin Newsom is laying out a road map for what the easing of California’s coronavirus lockdown might look like. At his daily briefing on the state’s approach towards managing the pandemic, by KQED's The California Report
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Food Banks Cope With Surge in New Clients: Healthcare Workers Could Lose Immigration Protections There are thousands of immigrants among the healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic. But for years, the Trump Administration has tried to end the protections that allow many of these i... by KQED's The California Report
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Detainees Panic As Coronavirus Appears In ICE Detention Centers: CA Schools Likely Closed For The Rest Of The Year Across the state the debate about just how long school will be out because of the COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying. California’s superintendent of schools is telling districts to prepare for learning ... by KQED's The California Report
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Will Coronavirus Tenant Protections Really Help Renters?: Newsom Asks Medical Workers for Help To deal with an expected surge in hospitalizations for COVID-19, Governor Gavin Newsom is creating the California Health Corps and calling on healthcare workers who may have recently retired or are still in school ... by KQED's The California Report
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Scientific Research Continues During Pandemic: Nursing Home Workers' Union Calls for Better PPE In the community of Yucaipa in San Bernardino County, 20 people have died from coronavirus — 18 of them from a single skilled nursing facility. At Cedar Mountain Post Acute Rehabilitation, by KQED's The California Report
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Businesses Plan for Reopening When Restrictions Lift: Gov. Newsom Talks Coronavirus Testing Governor Gavin Newsom says California is making big strides in its push to ramp up COVID-19 testing, but he isn’t committing to a date for reopening the state just yet. Reporter: Marisa Lagos, KQED Politics by KQED's The California Report
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Amazon’s Warehouse Workers Worry About Infection: Street Protest in the Time of Coronavirus Shouting "No to Rent, Yes to Food!" and observing proper social distancing measures, demonstrators in Boyle Heights yesterday called on the City of L.A. to do more to protect renters during the COVID-19 pandem... by KQED's The California Report
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This Is Not the Time for a Coronavirus Vacation: More Covid-19 Tests Coming to California California appears to be making progress when it comes to virus testing. Governor Gavin Newsom says as of Tuesday, nearly 67,000 tests have been done in the state. And thousands more will soon be completed. by KQED's The California Report
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Restaurant Industry Reels from Pandemic Closures: Daycare Workers Are Essential for Medical Staff to Work A lot of California day care centers are dealing with more kids, even as the preschools have fewer resources, like toilet paper. Reporter: Benjamin Purper, KVCR by KQED's The California Report
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Farmworkers and Growers Brace for Impact of Coronavirus: Governor Newsom: School's Out Until Next Year Bad news for parents, students, and teachers: Governor Gavin Newsom says California's public schools are likely out of session for the rest of the school year. by KQED's The California Report
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Newsom To Work With Neighboring Governors to Reopen States: Newsom To Work With Neighboring Governors to Reopen States At a time when President Donald Trump is claiming “total” authority over how states will reopen following the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, by KQED's The California Report
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Meeting Spiritual Needs During the Pandemic: Hospital Chaplains Re-Imagine Their Jobs During Pandemic Most days since this pandemic started, we share the latest grim numbers: how many Californians have Covid-19, and how many have died from it. Because the coronavirus is so contagious and dangero... by KQED's The California Report
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Judge: PG&E ‘Cheated’ on Power Line Maintenance: PG&E 'Cheated on Maintenance,' Judge Writes — Then Orders New Probation Conditions We’ll start a San Francisco federal judge’s order to require Pacific Gas and Electric to take a series of steps to improve its safety practices and head off future disa... by KQED's The California Report
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UC Admissions To Phase Out SAT and ACT Requirement: Unemployment in California Climbs to 15% There are new unemployment figures out this morning from the U.S. Department of Labor showing unemployment in California in April climbed to 15.5 %. But for a lot of people who are newly jobless, by KQED's The California Report
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Cities and Counties Brace for Budget Cuts Due to Coronavirus: Cities and Counties Brace for Budget Cuts Due to Coronavirus Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti gave a sobering warning in his State of teh City address Sunday. Because of cratering municipal revenue during the coronavirus shutdown, by KQED's The California Report
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Amid Pandemic, State Releases Thousands of Prisoners: Amid Pandemic, State Releases Thousands of Prisoners — But Will They Have Support at Home? Thousands of nonviolent inmates are being released from California’s prisons and jails as the state grapples with the pandemic. by KQED's The California Report
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California To Provide Disaster Relief for Undocumented Immigrants: Newsom To Provide Disaster Relief for Undocumented Immigrants California will be the first state in the nation to offer COVID-19 disaster relief to undocumented immigrants. Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a fund of $125 million Wednesday, by KQED's The California Report
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Working Overtime to Process Unemployment Claims: How to Protect Farmworkers During Pandemic California’s agricultural land grows about a third of the nation’s vegetables and nearly two thirds of its fruits and nuts. This production is essential to America’s food supply. by KQED's The California Report
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Curfews Are Lifted As Protests Continue: Curfews Are Lifted As Protests Continue Across California cities and counties, that had curfews in place, started lifting them. Authorities felt that was safe to do because of a noticeable cooling of anger on the streets. by KQED's The California Report
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Tele-Medicine Gets a Boost During Pandemic: Tele-Medicine Gets a Boost from Coronavirus The pandemic is changing how we interact with medical professionals. For instance, Medicare and Medicaid have expanded access to tele-health appointments for their members. by KQED's The California Report
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What the Pandemic Means for Firefighters This Season: Newsom: Food Workers To Get Paid Sick Leave Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that food workers in California will get two weeks of paid sick leave to help them deal with the outbreak of COVID 19. Reporter: Katie Orr, KQED Politics by KQED's The California Report
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Speaker Pelosi on the Next Coronavirus Relief Bill: New Rules for Courts in Coronavirus Times The California Judicial Council, which makes the rules for the state’s courts, has enacted a series of sweeping emergency rule changes to slow the spread of COVID-19 in jails and courtrooms, by KQED's The California Report
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