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11/12/2025

San Jose is delivering low-cost tiny homes for people living on the streets of California’s third-largest city — as long as the state continues to fund it.

San Jose is delivering low-cost tiny homes for people living on the streets of California’s third-largest city — as long as the state continues to fund it.

11/12/2025

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10/12/2025

A two-part series investigating California’s failure to protect underage farmworkers won the December Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation.

09/12/2025

Because of the Trump admin’s cuts, many of the organizations that helped migrants in Mexico have lost funding and either closed or cut staff, according to advocates on the ground.

“Those who stayed trapped in Mexico face a rather broken refugee system."

Many migrants who were hoping to reach the U.S. are now stuck in a backlog with Mexico's refugee agency; others are going home.

08/12/2025

Days after starting his second term, President Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders that targeted DEI programs and policies for elimination, decrying them as illegal and immoral. Museums across the country scrambled to react — and in many cases, comply.

But the Japanese American National Museum, a relatively small institution in downtown Los Angeles, chose a different path.

The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, history and the truth.

08/12/2025

Home care workers are organizing against Trump administration changes that end their right to federal minimum wage and overtime. Three million care workers, many of them Black and Latina women, could be classified as “companions” instead of professionals.

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05/12/2025

California agencies are joining forces to crack down on child labor violations after a Capital & Main investigation, produced in partnership with the Los Angeles Times and McGraw Center for Business Journalism, found that the state is failing to protect underage farmworkers who labor in harsh and dangerous circumstances.

State agencies to join forces to crack down on child labor violations after Capital & Main found enforcement breakdowns.

04/12/2025

Home care workers are organizing against Trump administration changes that end their right to federal minimum wage and overtime.

Three million care workers, many of them Black and Latina women, could be classified as “companions” instead of professionals.

Three million care workers, many of them Black and Latina women, could be classified as “companions” instead of professionals.

04/12/2025

COLUMN—Trump's so-called Big Beautiful Bill’s takedown of Medicaid funding involves forcing people to show that they’re working 80 hours each month before they can receive benefits.

CA policymakers are scrambling to mitigate that requirement's most toxic effects.

Trump's “Beautiful Bill” is set to drive millions of Americans from Medicaid. The Golden State’s leaders are trying to lessen the damage.

03/12/2025

Tariffs, extreme weather events and the Trump administration’s funding cuts are contributing to increasing property insurance rates—sometimes by double digits.

Tariffs, extreme weather events and the president’s funding cuts are contributing to increasing rates, sometimes by double digits.

02/12/2025

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02/12/2025

The Southwestern Public Service Company has asked the state of New Mexico to grant exceptions to the state’s Energy Transition Act for two proposed gas-fired power plants.

Critics call it “profound greenwashing.”

Plan puts costs of new solar farms on New Mexicans and extends lives of coal-fired plants. Critics call it “profound greenwashing.”