A community coalition employs an alternative approach at an Alabama bus plant.
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As pandemic-driven unemployment figures skyrocket, the once-unthinkable is being discussed: A universal basic income for Americans.
Americans stricken by COVID-19 face another pandemic threat: crushing medical bills.
California struggles to protect its health care workers as they fight the pandemic.
“How are you going to pay for it?,” a standard retort to Medicare for All, seems to have melted away. Today, how can we not pay for it?
Farmworkers may be considered “essential,” but the undocumented workers who pick the nation’s food are excluded from the CARES Act.
An eviction ban failed by a single vote when two council members recused themselves because of what they said were conflicts of interest.
Even as Californians are ordered to shelter in place, renters face the prospect of homelessness.
The economist says Republicans must stop pushing for a corporate slush fund in order to pass the emergency stimulus bill.
Los Angeles’ cleanup of a homeless encampment is met by protests from homeless residents and activists.
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Since the law’s passage, the federal government has seen the largest year-over-year drop in corporate tax revenue outside of a recession.
Pull back the curtain on the Trump economy and you’ll find a nation where income inequality is rising to become the new normal.
Disneyland is facing a class-action lawsuit from workers who claim the Anaheim resort is dodging a new minimum wage law.
Critics claim the city is not adequately enforcing a new home-sharing ordinance.
Rent-controlled properties remain on home-sharing platforms like Airbnb in violation of a new ordinance.
An Economic Policy Institute study concluded that rideshare drivers nationwide take home an average of $9.21 an hour after expenses.
What does a Pittsburgh race for district attorney have to do with the 2020 presidential election?
Among Future of Work Commission members, there has been more talk about the impact of the gig economy than the implications of artificial intelligence.
As the full scope of AB 5’s passage grows clearer, independent contractors in a few fields fear the new law could hurt them.