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As a warming planet brings economic tensions to a boil, following the money can reveal some critical stories.
The state’s fossil fuel industry spends millions more backing midterm candidates.
Deficits in technological skills and internet access has left millions of American seniors struggling to navigate the digital world.
Activists predict relying on state implementation will cause ‘a comprehensive total failure.’
The granddaughter of Disney’s co-founder imagines a more equitable America, starting with better pay for Disney park workers.
The state’s powerful oil and gas industry wields influence in ways that could blunt the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act.
As calls for the resignation of three Los Angeles city councilmembers mount, Weingart Foundation CEO Miguel Santana says Latino officials must show they represent everyone.
Building and construction trade unions would benefit from industrial green policy, but critics warn of fossil fuel subsidies.
Biden’s methane reduction plan relies on historically weak enforcement.
Texas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and California, among others, will drive its success or failure.
Experts hope new universal basic income programs and an innovative maternal center will help protect Black infants and mothers.
A new poll of teachers sounds a red alert for public education in the state.
Links between environmental exposures and maternal health outcomes remain underexplored, despite recent efforts to catch up.
A pledge to sharply reduce infant mortality by 2023 faces daunting obstacles.
With more progressives likely to join her on L.A.’s City Council, Nithya Raman talks about the prospects for breaking the ‘culture of unanimity’ at City Hall.
Political giving by the Los Angeles mayoral candidate tops $1 million since 2020.
Legislators struggle to make good intentions mean something in the face of lax enforcement.
The 2021 Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance lacks staff, money and will to enforce.
A law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Labor Day faces a referendum driven by corporate franchisors.
Hospital groups, drug manufacturers and insurance companies are some of the largest donors to anti-abortion candidates.