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January’s rains flooded farm fields and orchards. Many California farmworkers lost weeks of pay. Advocates say the state should help them weather such crises. A leading proposal would pay $300 a week to undocumented workers.
Gov. Newsom vetoed a similar bill last year, citing its cost as one reason.
The Transportation Security Administration, local restaurants and other businesses are among those who have been offering incentives to get people off unemployment and back to work, and now a state senator is pushing a bill that will offer people some more cash to get back to business.