Jacobs says although California has one of the highest minimum wage requirements in the country, it’s still well below the cost of living.

Jacobs says although California has one of the highest minimum wage requirements in the country, it’s still well below the cost of living.

Health advocates said expanding Medi-Cal to more undocumented immigrants is a big win for the state. Undocumented Californians currently make up the largest group of the uninsured, according to researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

According to the University of California Berkeley’s Labor Center, around 41% of registered nurses identify as White while 15% identify as Latino. The California Health Care Foundation found that 32% of physicians identify as White while only 5% identify as Latino.