{"id":254490,"date":"2026-04-06T19:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:34:18","slug":"new-restrictions-impacting-calfresh-eligibility-ai-usage-in-ca-schools-and-universities-sacramento-orchid-societys-annual-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254490\/","title":{"rendered":"New Restrictions Impacting CalFresh Eligibility | AI Usage in CA Schools and Universities | Sacramento Orchid Society\u2019s Annual Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n                New Restrictions Impacting CalFresh Eligibility | AI Usage in CA Schools and Universities | Sacramento Orchid Society\u2019s Annual Show&#13;<\/p>\n<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/103125_foodbank_p.jpg\" title=\"A shopper picks out bagels at River City Food Bank. Oct. 30, 2025\" alt=\"A shopper picks out bagels at River City Food Bank. Oct. 30, 2025\" class=\"border\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption small\">A shopper picks out bagels at River City Food Bank. Oct. 30, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"credit small\">Ruth Finch\/CapRadio<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                New Restrictions Impacting CalFresh Eligibility <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people across the Sacramento region rely on SNAP benefits, known as CalFresh in California, and the rate of enrollment has increased over the past half-decade. But new changes enacted last week under H.R.1 he federal H.R.1 now exclude many lawfully-present immigrants including refugees, asylum seekers and victims of trafficking. <a href=\"https:\/\/law.ucdavis.edu\/centers\/uc-davis-labor-and-community-center\/who-we-are\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcos Lopez<\/a>, Director of Research at the UC Davis Labor and Community Center joins Insight to talk about what the impact of these new restrictions could look like across the region, and whether resources are available to help these communities.<\/p>\n<p>AI Usage in CA Schools and Universities <\/p>\n<p>From social media to the workplace, artificial intelligence or AI is becoming more widely used in our day to day lives. Including in the classroom. But a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calstate.edu\/impact-of-the-csu\/technology\/ai-empowered-csu\/Pages\/ai-survey.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> shows students and faculty remain weary about its use. We spoke to a pair of education reporters about how AI is being integrated in both <a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/2026\/csu-students-widely-use-ai-tools-but-mistrust-results-and-fear-job-impact\/754924\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">college<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/2026\/california-middle-schools-are-ground-zero-for-testing-ai-in-classrooms\/754811\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middle school<\/a> classrooms. <a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/author\/krix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Rix<\/a> covers higher education for EdSource and Amelia Angeles, is a journalism major at UC Irvine and a member of the EdSource California Student Journalism Corps.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Orchid Society\u2019s Annual Show<\/p>\n<p>Is there a secret to success when it comes to growing orchids? If you\u2019re a fan of the flowering plant and thinking about learning to grow them yourself, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacramentoorchids.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Orchid Society<\/a> is the place to go. They host their annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacramentoorchids.org\/show-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orchid Show and Exotic Plant Sale<\/a> April 17 through 19 in Carmichael. Dave Veach is the Outreach Coordinator for the Sacramento Orchid Society and he joins us today to explain what it takes to care for these plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; New Restrictions Impacting CalFresh Eligibility | AI Usage in CA Schools and Universities | Sacramento Orchid Society\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[701,702,112812,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-254490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-capital-public-radio","tag-cpr","tag-new-restrictions-impacting-calfresh-eligibility-ai-usage-in-ca-schools-and-universities-sacramento-orchid-societys-annual-show","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}