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State agencies to join forces to crack down on child labor violations after Capital & Main found enforcement breakdowns.
Trump’s “Beautiful Bill” is set to drive millions of Americans from Medicaid. The Golden State’s leaders are trying to lessen the damage.
Three million care workers, many of them Black and Latina women, could be classified as “companions” instead of professionals.
Tariffs, extreme weather events and the president’s funding cuts are contributing to increasing rates, sometimes by double digits.
Plan puts costs of new solar farms on New Mexicans and extends lives of coal-fired plants. Critics call it “profound greenwashing.”
Danny Goldberg, whose new book chronicles the post-Rodney King push to remove LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, talks about parallels between 1992 and the Trump era.
New Mexico’s fourth largest city is integrating the average rent into calculations of its lowest pay rate.
A new Black Friday campaign against Amazon, Home Depot and Target says diversity is the best value.
A program in Los Angeles County is recycling unused food to feed hungry residents — and offering a model for other cities.
Cubans and other third-country nationals are dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa where they struggle to survive.
Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump
Despite a burst of new housing laws, buying a home in California is increasingly unattainable – especially for lower-income earners, a new report shows.
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
Según revela una investigación, las autoridades estatales evaden proteger la salud y seguridad de miles de trabajadores agrícolas jóvenes.
Niños y otros trabajadores agrícolas en California están expuestos a pesticidas tóxicos, en parte por una fragmentada aplicación de las normas de seguridad.
Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to shield employees from immigration raids.
Environmentalists see decision as ‘shocking reversal’ on fighting global warming; fossil fuel industry claims it would have led to higher utility bills.
Special education teachers fear the Trump administration’s funding cuts and layoffs will unravel progress for millions of students with disabilities.
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.