Capital & Main

07/11/2025

Many people recently deported on flights told Capital & Main that the U.S. government had taken their phones, and they struggled with the little money that they had to find their way out of being stranded in a city they did not know.

The Trump administration's deportation flights to the Mexican southern border towns of Tapachula and Villahermosa leave people stranded with few resources.

06/11/2025

COLUMN: In many cases, SNAP recipients don’t earn enough to make ends meet despite working full time.

That’s largely because the federal minimum wage remains $7.25 an hour.

1 in 8 people rely on federal food aid that has become a pawn in the government shutdown.

05/11/2025

The Hodgson family runs a ranch in the San Juan Basin that spans several thousand acres. Everywhere you look on that land, there’s an oil or gas well.

Now the ranchers say their oil giant neighbor is impacting their livestock, land and livelihood.

They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t.

03/11/2025

Californians have until TOMORROW, November 4 to vote on Proposition 50, which would temporarily redraw the state’s congressional map further in favor of Democrats to cancel out similar Republican efforts in Texas.

03/11/2025

Veteran Affairs Secretary Doug Collins vowed to have reduced the size of the agency by 30,000 positions by Sept 30 without impacting health services for veterans.

Meanwhile, wait times have increased for patients, said Florence Uzuegbunam, a nurse practitioner who works in primary care at a VA hospital outside of Atlanta. She also said that the staffing shortage has increased since Sept. 30 and that an increase in patients has reduced the time available for outpatients from the recommended one-hour visit to 30 minutes. “You can’t do much in 30 minutes.”

Impact of understaffing, facility closures and waiting times has been "dire."

31/10/2025

When wildfire tore through Los Angeles County’s Altadena community in January, Retha De Johnette never expected the disabled residents of the assisted-living facility she runs to remain displaced across the Southland nearly a year later.

People with disabilities are up to four times more likely to never return home after a natural disaster.

Devastating wildfires in Southern California disrupted thousands of lives, including those of vulnerable people who continue to search for a place to call home.

31/10/2025

Pennsylvania natural gas producer CNX Resources Corporation has sued Capital & Main for defamation over the news organization’s reporting on the health risks of the company’s operations.

Capital & Main stands by its reporting and vows to fight the suit.

A lawsuit by CNX Resources Corporation accuses the news organization of defamation for quoting sources critical of an industry-written study. Capital & Main stands by its reporting and vows to fight the suit.

30/10/2025

COLUMN: If the recently proposed 5% tax on California billionaires to raise $100 billion sounds desperate, it is, writes Mark Kreidler.

But it's nothing compared with will happen if the Trump admin’s massive planned reduction in Medicaid funding becomes reality without a plan to replace that funding.

A proposed ballot initiative would tax California’s billionaires’ wealth to stabilize Medicaid amid sharp federal cuts.

29/10/2025

Juan González, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, lived in Pasadena for three decades – building a family, working in restaurants and becoming a mainstay of his quiet neighborhood. But earlier this year, González’s life was turned upside down when the Eaton fire cost him his job, the Trump administration began its violent assault on immigrants, and González suffered a heart attack that he blamed on his fear of immigration enforcement.

For the first time since moving to the United States in the mid-1990s, González began to wonder if he should take the current administration’s advice and “self-deport” back to Mexico.

Editor: Jeremy Lindenfeld
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29/10/2025

Today, only 4% of retail workers in the U.S. are unionized. That is even lower than the private sector average of just under 6%.

With unionization dropping under Trump, experts say “premajority” campaigns can help workers score wins.

28/10/2025

Drastic times and drastic measures come to California. Many Black leaders see Proposition 50 as necessary to neutralize a GOP power grab that endangers bedrock civil rights, writes Erin Aubry Kaplan.

Drastic times and drastic measures come to California. Many Black leaders see Proposition 50 as necessary to neutralize a GOP power grab that endangers bedrock civil rights.

28/10/2025

⚠️☠️🚱 Colorado oil and gas companies used toxic chemicals prohibited under state law in operations involving dozens of wells on either side of the Rocky Mountains over at least the last 18 months, a Capital & Main investigation found.

One of the prohibited substances can cause cancer; new state law forced operators to identify chemicals.