As the state of California, county health agencies and hospitals courageously battle the COVID 19 pandemic, the Silicon Valley Ethics Roundtable highlights a subgroup of our community that also requires a strong commitment to action. A recent countywide survey shows an ever increasing homeless population now at well over 9,000 with 42% having mental health...
Randles, Reyes and Reese: San Jose-Evergreen Community College District underserves San Jose students
For many years we have been studying the problem of how the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District (SJECCD) underserves San Jose students with limited class and program offerings, forcing many students to attend other community college districts. This is a matter of equity, social justice and educational opportunity. The chancellor and the trustees of the...
Huttenhoff: Public life should become focus of San Jose’s business-recovery strategy
Official from SPUR in San Jose suggests additional steps City Council can take to aid small and micro businesses when shelter-in-place restrictions ease
Jimenez and Kelly: Two billion dollars could help San Jose
What could you do with $2 billion dollars? Two billion! No, that’s not a line from an Austin Powers movie. It’s the amount of money the city has stockpiled in its investment portfolio. This is money that could be used to protect essential services and lessen the pain small businesses are suffering during this crisis....
Ockenfels-Martinez: Abandoning essential workers is a public health issue
Gig economy companies should be doing more to protect their workers and meet requirements under Assembly Bill 5 during the coronavirus pandemic
Cortese: Support our foster youth in a post-coronavirus world
We are living in an unprecedented time that has forced a paradigm shift upon us. There is an understanding among many across the globe that we are all dealing with the same obstacle. For most of us, life has been stalled by the COVID-19 virus. Daily luxuries, which may have been taken for granted, have been replaced by...
Ellenberg: Childcare should be at the center of recovery efforts
We are into our seventh week of sheltering in place in Santa Clara County. We have been told that we are flattening the curve, that our hospital systems are not overwhelmed, that we are continuing to procure PPE and that we are developing a plan to put in place widespread contact tracing. The public health...
Law: This landlord supports freezing rents and evictions
We have lived in San Jose for 16 years, six as renters and 10 as landlords. Our family occupies half of a duplex in a small enclave of duplexes and our kids were born here, play with the neighbors and attend public schools. We love our community and take pride in caring for our home....
Dryer: Pivot towards joy and gratitude amid the pandemic
For 45 years, Alum Rock Counseling Center (ARCC) has worked with low-income, predominantly Latinx youth and families in some of the most underserved schools and neighborhoods in East and Central San Jose. The agency serves 10,000+ people annually, through 13 mental/behavioral health programs, including a 24/7 crisis hotline, individual and family counseling and services in...
Khamis: Lessons from COVID-19 can make business more efficient
It has been five weeks since Santa Clara County leaders issued the first shelter-in-place order and asked all nonessential workers to stay home. I applaud their efforts that are successfully, and dramatically, slowing the spread of the deadly coronavirus, and I welcome their continued expertise on how to keep us safe. It is clear that...