At Wednesday’s New York shareholder meeting for BlackRock, the global investment management behemoth, it was anything but business as usual.
Consuelo Mendez was 23 when she arrived in the United States 45 years ago, looking for work. In Ventura County she found it, harvesting strawberries, tomatoes, cabbage, parsley and spinach.
As soon as Anastasia Flores’ children were old enough, she brought them with her to work in the fields. “Ever since 1994 I’ve always worked by myself, until my children could also work,” she recalls.
Investigative reporter David Dayen’s new book, Chain of Title, focuses on the efforts of three people in South Florida who followed the Byzantine trail of paperwork used by mortgage companies to kick millions of Americans out of their homes following the 2008 housing-market collapse.
On April 25 state Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) presented her case in Sacramento for the Repeal Ineffective Sentencing Enhancement (RISE) Act, a bill to roll back a 1985 law extending jail terms for certain repeat drug offenders.
What do 82 public libraries, a Texas beef-processing company and a string of Pizza Huts across Tennessee and Florida have in common?
Sometimes the most interesting, and influential, figures in history are anything but household names. A case in point is Fred Ross, one of the greatest organizers of the 20th century.
One thing I’ve learned from decades of fighting for the public good is that winning comes in different forms.
Human frailty and societal faults are being vividly probed on Broadway as the season draws to a close.
Imagine a world where you get a check each month that allows you to cover your basic costs — but don’t have to work to earn it.