Will Black women have to wait another century for wage equality?
Researchers refute fast food industry’s apocalyptic predictions about raising the minimum wage.
The state, home to nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants, could be hit hard by the president’s deportation policies.
Will Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara bow to the industry giant or protect disaster-stricken Angelenos?
In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.
Head of the California Immigrant Policy Center said the state’s leaders and people are ready to stand against deportations and nativism.
It’s likely California’s homeowners will be on the hook when L.A.’s wildfire losses are added up, predicts former state insurance commissioner Dave Jones.
Chamber of Commerce, Restaurant Association claim the law, which labor unions say is meant to prevent coercion, violates free speech.
Federal funds cover more than 60% of California’s low-income health insurance plan. Losing even part of that money could result in cutbacks on care for kids or state tax hikes.
Seventy percent of the state’s residents think kids in the state will be financially worse off than their parents.
A growing coalition of parents, students and teachers comes together to halt the chaos roiling school boards and communities.
From utility commissioner in Montana to governor in North Carolina, these contests will have an impact on climate change and the transition to a clean-energy future.
Ahead of a ballot measure to add $2 to the hourly minimum wage, studies show fast food jobs increased after the state bumped hourly pay to $20 in that sector.
With progressive Rep. Katie Porter gone, her coastal California district is considered critical to the fate of a divided House.
Prop. 36 creates stiffer penalties for some theft and drug crimes and has overwhelming support, but big retailers do not cite theft as a leading threat, and property crime is the lowest in 50 years.
Following the money reveals the gaming of the state’s initiative process.
To achieve consistent pay and benefits, IHSS workers seek to negotiate directly with the state instead of with 58 individual counties.
Where prisons are located, the way they are built, and the health condition of prisoners means deaths will likely increase with climate change, experts say.
Proposition 4 would fund infrastructure to relieve brutally hot days such as those that just scorched Los Angeles.
Six in 10 in the region said they skipped or stalled medical care due to cost, and it is not much better statewide.