Journalist Marc Haefele was one of the keenest analysts of Los Angeles politics. Capital & Main columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan knew him as a colleague who could write authoritatively on practically everything.
Concentration in low-paying industries and lack of education and career training mean Latinas earn 44% of what white men are paid.
Says Steven Hahn, “the groundwork for Trump was laid much earlier in our history.”
Nationally, Big Oil overwhelmingly supports Republicans; in New Mexico it’s a different story.
A union complaint filed with California regulators says a leaked internal memo shows Kaiser intended to break its own rules and state law, leaving patients without care during the ongoing strike.
Dorian Warren argues that cynicism and disillusionment among the party’s base helped Trump win.
A measure seemingly targeting the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has put forth three rent control ballot measures, is on its way to narrowly passing.
The UC system says it is offering healthy raises for nearly 40,000 staffers, but workers say the system is playing a shell game by also raising their health care premiums.
But the election is likely to blow up a long-delayed EPA response to oil and gas pollution in New Mexico.
Labor strategist Steve Rosenthal says Kamala Harris fared better with union voters than headlines suggest — and outlines the labor movement’s path forward.