Cheering the clear skies of the COVID-19 epoch is a little like celebrating the return of wildlife to Chernobyl’s exclusion zone.
Critics charge that the poor and people of color will be left out
The dairy state draws attention for some of the nation’s highest rates of racial disparity.
“How are you going to pay for it?,” a standard retort to Medicare for All, seems to have melted away. Today, how can we not pay for it?
With ridership in free fall, transit agencies face a long road back to normalcy.
Farmworkers may be considered “essential,” but the undocumented workers who pick the nation’s food are excluded from the CARES Act.
As uncertainties and conflicting data swirl around COVID-19, a few truths about the poor bear repeating.
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Restaurant workers at a Los Angeles eatery were looking forward to the high season of tips and extra hours. Then came the pandemic.
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Supermarket and pharmacy employees are “essential workers” who are still on the job. The say they need more COVID-19 protections.
L.A.’s City Council will vote on a far-reaching aid package for workers and renters. Business groups are fighting the plan.
Even as Californians are ordered to shelter in place, renters face the prospect of homelessness.
Frontline nurses claim that a lack of both N95 masks and coronavirus testing is putting hospital populations at risk.
The economist says Republicans must stop pushing for a corporate slush fund in order to pass the emergency stimulus bill.
After a week of private negotiations, the state is no closer to filling empty hotel rooms with at-risk homeless people.
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What health crisis? In the face of a public outcry, the Big Island’s mayor prefers to stick to business as usual.
The mishandling of COVID-19 has unfolded just as the response to global warming has — only at a faster clip.
Officials accuse the president of stoking xenophobia and violence against Asian-Americans.
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Facing a health crisis, California legislators call for a moratorium on evictions, utility shutoffs and foreclosures.
Today veteran journalist Mark Kreidler begins a new weekly column covering the coronavirus and its social impacts.
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What is the connection between a lack of commitment to collective well-being and social disaster in a time of crisis?
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