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Combined with threats to federal funding for public assistance, it has been too much for many of them to bear, she said.

Thrown back into the job market, Curtis only received a handful of interviews from her 200 applications and ended up seeking public assistance like SNAP, Medicaid and unemployment benefits.

Numerous studies and reports confirm that large companies pay their workers such low wages that these workers need public assistance, even when working full time.

Under Newsom's proposal, the largest share of the funds - 42% - would go to public assistance in debris removal and repair work.

This malevolent policy was aimed at immigrants by denying them entry or improvement in their immigration status if they were thought likely to access public assistance programs.