Health care exchange workers say the Biden administration should force their employer to provide good jobs.
Unable to walk or use her arms, Karen Mickett can work and live on her own. A mass eviction at her Los Angeles apartment complex threatens her fragile independence.
Using money, mass mobilizations and culture wars, church leaders get their members — and sometimes themselves — elected to office.
They will still directly fund coal plants that are taking steps to abate their emissions using the untested technology.
Tim Thompson engineered a school board takeover by recruiting and financing candidates who run against race, religion and gender identity policies.
In the Arab American enclave of Dearborn, anxiety, depression and substance abuse strain the “9/11 generation.”
A new book argues that the disappearance of private sector unions is part of the answer.
Etowah could emerge as a major player in energy sustainability and U.S. energy security.
An upstart performer group is joining the fight to get the famous Austin festival to pay its fair share.
Winner of the Frieze L.A. art fair’s Impact Prize uses quilting to reveal the reality of life in prison.
Rejecting years of unequal treatment, 20,000 low-paid California State University student assistants and workers vote to organize.
Oil and gas firm plans new wells near Aurora Reservoir and the Lowry Landfill Superfund site.
From Biden vs. Trump to an oil well referendum in California, climate change debate is all over the ballot in federal, state and local contests.
Opponents say a program that gives valuable credits for making fuels from crops and dairy waste props up fossil fuels companies and pollutes nearby communities.
Supporters say harvesting trees would thin out the state’s overgrown forests; critics say the wood pellets for heating produce more carbon than coal.
Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.
The state has matched fruit and vegetable purchases at farmers markets for low-income residents for seven years. That may soon end.
Douglas Emmett Inc.’s surge in donations began after a city councilman opposed evictions.
Mike Balog has resisted eviction from his rent-controlled apartment for nearly ten years. The strain is wearing him down, but he has nowhere to go.
Organized labor fears a rising nonunion workforce could pull restaurant jobs down from the middle class.