Guest: Anthony Alexandre, a detainee at the Otay Mesa Detention Center.
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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A community coalition employs an alternative approach at an Alabama bus plant.
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There are signs that another foreclosure crisis may be looming in this swing state.
COVID-19 Death at Otay Mesa Detention Center | Guest: Anthony Alexandre, Detainee at Otay Mesa
The deaths of young, previously healthy COVID patients show the danger of ignoring personal safety precautions.
A new history by the author of City of Quartz examines the time and place of his own early activism.
Trumpers, conspiracists and anti-vaxxers attack shelter-in-place orders: “I can’t just work, work, work and watch Netflix!”
The new documentary on renewable energy is under fire from environmentalists for being “full of misinformation.”
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.
Two Kaiser RNs look back on a week of having to use “reprocessed” N95 masks. Meanwhile, COVID cases have leveled off.
The Trump administration says no to family immigration, but yes to guest workers.
Even as Trump attacks Medicaid, 2020 might be the year for expansion in North Carolina.
Amid a raging pandemic, immigrant detainees say they are double bunked in cells and that guards don’t wear protective equipment.
Los Angeles reports that its county’s low-income COVID deaths are triple the number of those of wealthier neighborhoods.
The Dept. of Toxic Substances Control has halted all field work on cleaning homes affected by Exide contamination until further notice.
Everything from chronic physician shortages to the county’s political culture seemed aligned against a rapid response to the virus.