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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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Low-Income Tax Blues: April Can Truly Be the Cruelest Month
- Labor & Economy
- April 12, 2017
Everyone struggles with what appear to be questionable overdraft fees, along with hidden credit card and cellphone fees. But low-income communities are particularly targeted for predatory practices.
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Los Angeles’ War on Homelessness Begins: An Interview With Chris Ko
- Society
- March 22, 2017
Although it took nearly two weeks to tally the votes from the March 7 election, Los Angeles County ballot Measure H has officially achieved the 69 percent vote supermajority needed to pass a half-cent sales tax hike.
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Getting the Word About the Earned Income Tax Credit to Working Families
- Labor & Economy
- February 13, 2017
Filing taxes used to be a routine process for Tanya James -– until the Great Recession upended her financial life.
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State Senator Ricardo Lara’s Bill Says No to Wall in California
- Politics & Government, Society
- January 30, 2017
Anti-immigration decrees marked the first week of a shock-and-awe rollout of Trump initiatives to build a 1,900-mile wall along the border with Mexico, to cut off federal funds to “sanctuary cities” and to ban refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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