Melissa Montalvo
The Fresno Bee ReporterMelissa covers childhood poverty in the central San Joaquin Valley for The Fresno Bee in partnership with CalMatters' California Divide project. She is a Report for America corps member. Montalvo, a bilingual reporter, covered the food and agriculture industries, Indigenous issues, and Mexican American culture as a freelancer, with bylines in Civil Eats, L.A. Taco, and more.
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Guest farmworkers will see pay increases in 2022 thanks to a lawsuit to stop a Trump-era wage freeze. President Trump proposed the freeze in an attempt to help farmers who lost profit and fellowed land during the pandemic shutdown in 2020. -
Seven in 10 Californians say the gap between rich and poor is getting larger, according to a statewide survey. -
Monthly $300 payments are in the works for thousands of California families struggling to make ends meet.
