But she agreed to pay the dental office nearly $4,500 in increments of $100 each month to cover the braces. She was unemployed at the time, and took the money out of her son’s $910 monthly SSI… she needed to cover many of the family’s other expenses as well. “I had no choice but to do it,” she said. “I didn’t want him to suffer like that.”

(Español) Familias como la de Viviana sufren de manera especial y desproporcionada con los incendios forestales, porque ese humo agrega otra capa de sustancias tóxicas al aire ya contaminado de sus vecindarios, por las usuales quemas controladas en los campos agrícolas de alrededor.

Kirsten Richardson, 30, a North Carolina resident who was visiting Sacramento this week and stopped in for a vanilla latte at The Mill, a local coffee shop, said she was glad to hear the FDA had vindicated her favorite drink.