government assistance

For Marty Sokol, 56, owner of Club Cobra, the lack of government assistance has been frustrating and surprising.

Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed last month is a wish list, not of tough new mandates to get a handle on the world’s plastic’s crisis, but of regulatory rollbacks and government assistance that would boost the plastics industry.

“They get more than I ever got,” he said, expressing frustration over the government assistance provided to immigrants.

Low-income families can receive government assistance to help cover costs, or attend free government-funded programs including Head Start and state preschools.

Ronald Coleman Baeza, managing policy director for California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, called it “indefensible” and compared the proposal to a notorious ballot proposition from the 1990s that sought to bar immigrants from accessing government assistance programs.