Lucille Roybal-Allard News

December 21, 2009 -- Chrysalis, a nonprofit dedicated to helping the homeless in Santa Monica and elsewhere find jobs, received $500,000 as part of President Obama's spending bill signed last week.

The new Metro Gold Line extension from downtown Los Angeles to the Eastside was officially dedicated Saturday.

It's a day to honor the men and women who have served our country in the armed forces.

Today, Lung Cancer Alliance praised Congressman Mike Thompson for his endorsement of the Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act of 2009.

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard and Congresswoman Judy Chu were honored for their leadership to the community at the Chinatown Service Center's 38th Anniversary "Turning the Curve to Community Economic Recovery" Dinner.

A group of cities and a state agency, which wants to build an 800-mile high-speed railroad in California, have reached a tentative agreement calling on both to work together to address local concerns.

While most students return to school this fall, hundreds of thousands of child laborers who should be at desks are toiling in commercial agriculture.

National leaders are meeting in Washington for the National Hispanic Council on Aging conference Oct.

One of the country's leading Hispanic organizations is launching a campaign designed to pressure CNN to rein in host Lou Dobbs.

Children as young as 11 and 12 are working 10 or more hours a day in one of the country's most dangerous occupations.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has appointed Georgina Verdugo as director of the Office for Civil Rights.

The USC School of Social Work program, the first of its kind at a major research university, garners $3.3 million in government funding.

A number of non-profit organizations and healthcare providers around the Downtown area are expected to receive chunks of money as part of a Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill passed recently by the U.S. House of Representatives.

The federal government routinely failed to follow its own standards regulating immigration detention centers across the country, denying detainees sufficient recreation time and adequate access to attorneys, legal materials and telephones, according to a new report issued on Tuesday.

The House, taking aim at one of former President George W. Bush's signature initiatives, voted to end funding for abstinence-only sex education programs.

The House voted Friday to lift a ban on using taxpayer dollars for needle exchange programs for intravenous drug users intended to prevent the spread of HIV and other diseases.

The vote to lift a longstanding ban on federal aid for such programs a ' in place since 1988 a ' came after a brief but passionate debate on an amendment by Rep.

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California cities, which are already facing historic budget deficits and the potential of additional state raids on local funds, may be surprised to learn some members of Congress are actively pushing legislation that would further limit local revenue authority.

Hundreds of doctors, nurses and other social and health care workers gathered in Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Park Wednesday, asking Congress to end the racial and economic disparities in the United States' health care system.