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

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

by Mark Kreidler


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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.

‘I’m Lost in This Country’: Non-Mexicans Living Undocumented After Deportation to Mexico

By Kate Morrissey

Cubans and other third-country nationals are dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa where they struggle to survive.

California Endures Whipsaw Climate Extremes as Federal Support Withers

By Aaron Cantú

Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump

Seven Years Into Gov. Newsom’s Tenure, California’s Housing Crisis Remains Unsolved

By Mark Kreidler

Despite a burst of new housing laws, buying a home in California is increasingly unattainable – especially for lower-income earners, a new report shows.

California’s Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid and Toiling in Toxic Fields

By Robert J. Lopez

State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.

Lax Oversight, Few Inspections Leave Child Farmworkers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides

By Robert J. Lopez

Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.

Los niños jornaleros de California: agotados, mal pagados y trabajando en campos de cultivo tóxicos

By Robert J. Lopez

Según revela una investigación, las autoridades estatales evaden proteger la salud y seguridad de miles de trabajadores agrícolas jóvenes.