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To Protect Underage Farmworkers, California Expands Oversight of Field Conditions

State agencies to join forces to crack down on child labor violations after Capital & Main found enforcement breakdowns.

by Robert J. Lopez


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Can California Claw Back Some Medi-Cal Care?

By Mark Kreidler

Trump’s “Beautiful Bill” is set to drive millions of Americans from Medicaid. The Golden State’s leaders are trying to lessen the damage.

Home Care Workers Are Losing Minimum Wage Protections — and Fighting Back

By Kalena Thomhave

Three million care workers, many of them Black and Latina women, could be classified as “companions” instead of professionals.

Trump’s Anti-Climate Policies Are Driving Up Insurance Costs for Homeowners, Say Experts

By Marcus Baram

Tariffs, extreme weather events and the president’s funding cuts are contributing to increasing rates, sometimes by double digits.

Utility Asks New Mexico for ‘Zero Emission’ Status for Gas-Fired Power Plant

By Jerry Redfern

Plan puts costs of new solar farms on New Mexicans and extends lives of coal-fired plants. Critics call it “profound greenwashing.”

Accountable to No One: What 1990s L.A. Teaches Us About the Trump Resistance

By Cerise Castle

Danny Goldberg, whose new book chronicles the post-Rodney King push to remove LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, talks about parallels between 1992 and the Trump era.

Santa Fe’s Plan for a Real Minimum Wage Offers Lessons for Costly California

By Mark Kreidler

New Mexico’s fourth largest city is integrating the average rent into calculations of its lowest pay rate.

Holiday Shopping Boycott Fights Trump With the Power of the Purse

By Erin Aubry Kaplan

A new Black Friday campaign against Amazon, Home Depot and Target says diversity is the best value.

Is the Solution to Hunger All Around Us in Fertile California?

By Mark Kreidler

A program in Los Angeles County is recycling unused food to feed hungry residents — and offering a model for other cities.