A survey of 23,000 nurses found that 87 percent of respondents must still reuse disposable masks while attending to COVID-19 patients.
More than half of the county’s COVID-19 deaths have occurred at nursing homes. Where was the public health department?
To break the corporate grip on our food, we need to stop looking to fields far away and look closer to home.
Gov. Newsom’s revised budget puts programs aimed at addressing disparities in access to vital services on the chopping block.
COVID-19 is spreading throughout central Washington state. One agricultural county has the highest infection rate on the West Coast.
The lights are going out in America’s rural hospitals and clinics at the moment they are most needed.
Pandemic-battered California faces another falling domino as paychecks vanish and rents come due.
A veteran photographer records the stories of Los Angeles street vendors pushed to the edge by a pandemic.
Why ICE’s immigration detention facilities throughout the country have become COVID-19 hotspots.
The Mayor’s Fund has raised $20 million to fund debit cards for impoverished residents hit hard by the COVID-19 economic crisis.
Demands for safer working conditions and extra hourly hazard pay during the pandemic are powering a strike wave in the Yakima Valley.
In a Capital & Main interview, State Controller Betty Yee casts doubt about the prospects for Prop. 13 reform and other initiatives.
A new study, citing historical precedent, claims 42 percent of recent layoffs will result in permanently lost jobs.
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There are signs that another foreclosure crisis may be looming in this swing state.
The deaths of young, previously healthy COVID patients show the danger of ignoring personal safety precautions.
Trumpers, conspiracists and anti-vaxxers attack shelter-in-place orders: “I can’t just work, work, work and watch Netflix!”
The firings of company whistleblowers, Tim Bray wrote, were further evidence “of a vein of toxicity running through the company’s culture.”
How a safety net became “a house of cards” under the economics of a pandemic.
As the pandemic’s cruelest month gave way to the merry month of May, Los Angeles was filled with demands and unrest.
Two Kaiser RNs look back on a week of having to use “reprocessed” N95 masks. Meanwhile, COVID cases have leveled off.