UC San Diego Health laid off 230 workers — about 1.5% of its workforce — across its clinics and hospitals last week. The cuts include many frontline workers.
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In the latest Why It Matters segment Voice of San Diego CEO Scott Lewis looks at the local impacts of Prop. 36, which turned certain property and drug crimes from misdemeanors into felonies.
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