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California's state legislature has approved, as a way of spending its record budget surplus, a pioneering scheme to distribute cash to youngsters for access when they turn 18.
In California, 32,000 children under 18 have experienced the death of a parent or primary caregiver from COVID-19. The state has set aside $100 million for trust funds for children who are in low-income families to access when they turn 18 for school, housing or other expenses.
In a small town in California’s Central Valley, a trio of siblings lost both their parents to COVID-19 within two weeks of each other in...