Even the safest hospitals still display wide gaps in health outcomes based on patients’ skin color.
Puzzling denials and delays still plague some who seemed to qualify for help.
Two California cases probe who is pocketing those extra fees tacked onto your restaurant tab.
From Cocaine Bear to Panda Express, the fight for a living wage is the same.
How to help health care workers live where they are employed.
While it ponders ambitious new laws to improve mental health, California could strengthen what’s already on the books.
Millions in the Golden State are failing to keep on the right side of the growing wealth divide.
The district’s massive cash reserve could cover the demands of striking workers. There is a way, but is there the will?
With parents forced to quit work to replace workers they can’t afford, the child care system is in full disarray.
The economic future of millions of Californians hangs in the balance.
Organizing franchises is swell, but the attacks on unionization drives must stop.
Making developers who stoke the housing crisis repair the damage they’ve done.
A year after the state crafted the first ever food assistance program for undocumented immigrants, the 2023 budget puts it on hold.
This week’s torrent compounds the affordable housing crisis.
California’s hospitals struggle once more to find beds for desperate patients.
Recently passed legislation pushes new construction as a solution.
The aftereffects of the pandemic are likely to depress homeownership rates for Black and Latino households in California.
48,000 underpaid student workers in the University of California system prepare to go on strike Nov. 14.
A new report has the receipts on our overcompensated corporate titans.
How the American economy has left many behind and rewarded the few.