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Supermarket and pharmacy employees are “essential workers” who are still on the job. The say they need more COVID-19 protections.
The president of the Economic Policy Institute discusses the COVID-19 financial tailspin and attempts by lawmakers to mitigate the damage.
L.A.’s City Council will vote on a far-reaching aid package for workers and renters. Business groups are fighting the plan.
Even as Californians are ordered to shelter in place, renters face the prospect of homelessness.
Frontline nurses claim that a lack of both N95 masks and coronavirus testing is putting hospital populations at risk.
The economist says Republicans must stop pushing for a corporate slush fund in order to pass the emergency stimulus bill.
After a week of private negotiations, the state is no closer to filling empty hotel rooms with at-risk homeless people.
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What health crisis? In the face of a public outcry, the Big Island’s mayor prefers to stick to business as usual.
The mishandling of COVID-19 has unfolded just as the response to global warming has — only at a faster clip.
Officials accuse the president of stoking xenophobia and violence against Asian-Americans.
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Facing a health crisis, California legislators call for a moratorium on evictions, utility shutoffs and foreclosures.
LAUSD will begin a new program Wednesday to keep district students fed during the closure of schools due to the coronavirus.
Today veteran journalist Mark Kreidler begins a new weekly column covering the coronavirus and its social impacts.
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What is the connection between a lack of commitment to collective well-being and social disaster in a time of crisis?
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Many ex-felons are now able to vote again, thanks to a 2018 amendment to the state constitution.
So many billionaires, but Florida struggles to take care of those at the bottom.
Tuesday’s upsurge of COVID-19 confirmations has resulted in widespread school and college closures.
Thirty years of poor investment in education leaves a workforce with few routes to the middle class.
The Queen City is enjoying a commercial rebirth but staggering disparities separate black workers and businesses from their white counterparts.
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The coronavirus story involves governmental response times and political spin. But economic inequality issues also play a large part.
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