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Bobbi Murray
Bobbi Murray has reported on politics, economics, police reform and health-care issues for Los Angeles magazine, L.A. Weekly and The Nation.
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Hire Power: Los Angeles Employment Program Breaks New Ground
- Labor & Economy
- July 18, 2017
Los Angeles’ innovative “targeted local hiring” program seeks to fill 5,000 city job positions, frozen or gutted during the 2008 recession, with potential employees from communities long excluded from a cumbersome civil service process.
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Working Families Are Big Winners of California Tax Credit Expansion
- Labor & Economy
- June 22, 2017
There’s good news for low-income Californians tucked within the massive state budget Governor Jerry Brown is set to sign this week, including a measure that advocates estimate could benefit more than one million financially struggling families.
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David Bacon’s Portraits of “Invisible” Farmworkers
- Immigration
- May 22, 2017
When writer and veteran union organizer David Bacon speaks of “people who travel with the crops,” he means the agricultural workers who move from place to place to cultivate and harvest California’s fields. They are also the subject of his newest work of photojournalism.
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April, 1992: The Upheaval Remembered
- Society
- April 28, 2017
Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a social earthquake in which dozens of people were killed and over a thousand buildings burned. Even before it erupted, the combustible material was obvious to many living and working in South Los Angeles.
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