{"id":11747,"date":"2020-08-22T05:54:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T03:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11747"},"modified":"2020-08-22T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T04:32:15","slug":"california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11747","title":{"rendered":"California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-53828150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A volunteer fire-fighting corps made up of state prisoners, which has helped the state battle blazes since World War Two, has been diminished this year due to the pandemic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-08-21\/deadly-bay-area-firestorms-rage-unchecked-as-firefighters-struggle-to-keep-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cal Fire\u2019s union leadership began sounding the alarm about a depletion of resources in the spring, when the COVID outbreak triggered early releases from prisons and with that, a loss of hundreds of inmate firefighters who annually help set up defensive lines around wildfires. Inmate firefighters make up about 43% of Cal Fire\u2019s firefighting force.<\/p>\n<p>Since the outbreak began, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has released more than 800 inmate firefighters, with about 600 of those releases coming since July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA combination of expedited and natural releases have contributed to the recent decrease in the conservation camp population,\u201d CDCR spokesman Aaron Francis said in an email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2020-08-21\/california-jobs-unemployment-july-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>California\u2019s economic recovery will depend on whether the federal government can enact more stimulus measures, including unemployment benefits, and on curbing the COVID-19 infection rate, said David Smith, an economist at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like a long road ahead where we are going to have to punch, kick and crawl our way back to anything near historically normal employment,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This image prompts questions: as Californians crawl their way back to anything near historically normal employment who is being punched? Who is being kicked?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: A volunteer fire-fighting corps made up of state prisoners, which has helped the state battle blazes since World War Two, has been diminished this year due to the pandemic. Los Angeles Times: Cal Fire\u2019s union leadership began sounding the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11747\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}