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Author Archives: Jennifer Torres
Jennifer Torres
Estimates vary widely
I received several reader responses critical of those recent stories on Brayan Soto and his family. All of them, in some way, alluded to the costs of illegal immigration:
“Will you ever write an article about how much these illegal’s cost this country; how they are criminals, yes true criminals, and a major drain on the [...]
A life in Stockton
Brayan Soto was 11 years old when he was pulled out of school to become the primary caretaker of his mother, who had suffered a stroke, and his two younger brothers. For two years, he spent his days diapering and dressing and cooking and cleaning while other kids his age were going to sixth – [...]
Posted in children and families, immigration, poverty, social services Tagged children, education, health, immigration, latinos, poverty, youth 0 Comments
Deferred
UPDATE: Zack’s story (along with a video) is here.
Over the weekend, U.C. Davis awarded honorary degrees to 47 former students, all of whom had been forced to abandon their studies in the 1940s when President Roosevelt’s Order 9066 sent more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps.
Among those receiving a degree in person [...]
Not enough for the bank
The FDIC released a report recently that found about 1 in 4 American households is either “unbanked” or “underbanked.”
Unbanked means no one in the home has a checking or savings account, while underbanked means that, even though the household does maintain a bank account, members still rely on payday loans, rent-to-own arrangements and other nontraditional [...]
“1 in 4 U.S. newborns is Hispanic”
That’s according to a new analysis from the Pew Hispanic Center, and it surprised me.
According to the center: “Never before in U.S. history has a minority ethnic group made up so large a share of the youngest Americans.”
I just checked, and in San Joaquin County that share is even larger: fully 45 percent of babies [...]
Posted in children and families, demographics, poverty Tagged census, children, education, latinos, poverty, race, youth 0 Comments
The economy and care
In reporting this story on teen pregnancy and why the teen birth rate continues to be high in San Joaquin County, I talked to Planned Parenthood’s Janalynn Castillo about some broader health issues.
Months ago, Janalynn had told me that the agency’s client numbers had increased significantly (more than a 12 percent increase over numbers from [...]
Posted in children and families, poverty, social services, working Tagged children, health, poverty, women 0 Comments
Latinos and the law
My colleague, Jennie Rodriguez, has a story in Monday’s paper about efforts in the Lodi Police Department to establish better relationships with those in the city’s Latino community, especially immigrants.
“As the community grows and as the immigration issue is the news nationally, it affects everyone,” Sgt. Fernando Martinez told Jennie. He is commander of Lodi’s [...]
Posted in demographics, immigration, social services Tagged census, immigration, language, latinos 0 Comments
Sense of belonging
Stockton mom Virtu Arora talked to me yesterday about her children’s participation in this weekend’s Diwali Show at the Scottish Rite Temple.
She mentioned that the kids, Eshan and Eshika, have seen a YouTube video of President Obama lighting a Diwali lamp at the White House last month. (It was the Bush White House that first [...]
Poverty, women and babies
Almost 13,600 San Joaquin County women had babies last year. Among them, 2,630 had incomes below the federal poverty threshold – $21,200 for a family of four. That’s nearly 1 in 5 babies born into poverty in our county.
In reporting today’s story about changes in the federal Women, Infants and Children program that, in part, [...]
Posted in children and families, poverty, social services Tagged children, health, poverty, women 0 Comments
More kids have unemployed parents