Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Many of the Vagabond Inn’s employees refused to return to work when the Ventura hotel reopened in mid-April to house the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unsure of the risks, many stayed home.Victoria Galindo Lopez, a 48-year-old Mexican immigrant, was one of the few who stepped up and returned to her housekeeping job.“I was needed,” she said in Spanish. “And I needed to work. I was happy to help the community.”Galindo earns $13.15 an hour cleaning the hotel under the state’s which houses vulnerable homeless residents who don’t...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Many of the Vagabond Inn’s employees refused to return to work when the Ventura hotel reopened in mid-April to house the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unsure of the risks, many stayed home.Victoria Galindo Lopez, a 48-year-old Mexican immigrant, was one of the few who stepped up and returned to her housekeeping job.“I was needed,” she said in Spanish. “And I needed to work. I was happy to help the community.”Galindo earns $13.15 an hour cleaning the hotel under the state’s which houses vulnerable homeless residents who don’t...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement California’s stay-at-home order reduced vehicle collisions on roadways by a little more than half, saving taxpayers an estimated $1 billion since the order went into effect, according to a that estimated the impact of the order on traffic.“The savings was about $40 million a day ... That’s about $15 billion over a one-year period, which is almost the size of the state portion of California’s transportation budget for a year,” said Fraser Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis.The survey used...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement California’s stay-at-home order reduced vehicle collisions on roadways by a little more than half, saving taxpayers an estimated $1 billion since the order went into effect, according to a that estimated the impact of the order on traffic.“The savings was about $40 million a day ... That’s about $15 billion over a one-year period, which is almost the size of the state portion of California’s transportation budget for a year,” said Fraser Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis.The survey used...WW…