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While Biden’s billionaire tax fails to gain traction, states are taking the lead on wealth taxes.
The energy future of fossil fuel dependent Phoenix could be reshaped by a slate of clean energy advocates looking to upend a stubborn utility.
Proposal to drill oil and gas near Denver superfund site raises concerns.
New contracts will expire six months before the Games, giving workers an opening to pit public attention against employers.
Shepard Fairey calls the tagging of empty luxury towers a “poetic reuse of a failed space.”
Not far from a birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement, a school district convulses after Black history and literature classes are canceled.
Rushed care and poor working conditions have led to demands for representation as revenues grow in the wake of the Dobbs ruling.
Participants who received an average of $850 per month used it for paying bills, reducing debt and improving credit.
The California Department of Public Health says the agency is enforcing state requirements, despite deep budget cuts.
Fearing they may not survive the ravages of extreme weather caused by the climate crisis, island nations look to Hawaii’s ambitious policies as a model.
Would-be voters in this coal and oil state signal they’re increasingly alarmed by climate change.
More than 74,000 people eat healthier through the CalFresh pilot program.
A ballot measure to raise pay to $23 an hour could help workers in labor negotiations and boost the local economy.
Since Joanne Erickson lost her apartment, volunteers, housing groups and government representatives have tried — and failed — to find her a home. Her story shows how seniors are falling through our social safety net.
Health care exchange workers say the Biden administration should force their employer to provide good jobs.
Jessica Goodheart, Steve Marble and Cerise Castle bring broad and deep experience to our coverage of inequality and the climate crisis.
Unable to walk or use her arms, Karen Mickett can work and live on her own. A mass eviction at her Los Angeles apartment complex threatens her fragile independence.
Using money, mass mobilizations and culture wars, church leaders get their members — and sometimes themselves — elected to office.
They will still directly fund coal plants that are taking steps to abate their emissions using the untested technology.
Tim Thompson engineered a school board takeover by recruiting and financing candidates who run against race, religion and gender identity policies.