This story on low-wage workers in California is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. By Mark Kreidler California’s new $20 minimum wage for most fast-food workers provoked plenty of […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which dominates the supply of power to most of Northern and Central […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. For organized labor in the U.S., 2023 was a year of strikes that made national news and […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. The bureaucratic inertia in Sacramento is often a byproduct of conflicting values or political chess—or, sometimes, legitimate […]
By Aaron Cantú This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. It’s been more than two years since a California lawmaker first introduced a bill requiring big corporations […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. The height of the pandemic triggered waves of anxiety and emotional stress for isolated young people across […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. When its legislative members formed the California Renters’ Caucus last fall, they understood the scope of their […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. Blake Phillips is pretty sure he did everything right, which makes it all the more baffling to […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. California Gov. Gavin Newsom last month announced a whopper initiative for the 2024 ballot. Sprawling in its ambition, […]
By Bobbi Murray This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. “I think democracy thrives when everybody can participate,” says California Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Culver City). In February […]
By Mark Schapiro This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. The Butterfly Effect Ten years ago I met a lepidopterist, a fanatic for butterflies. During butterfly season, […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. Inflation bore down hard on Californians in 2022, but the effect was especially toxic at the lower reaches […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. California’s vulnerability to destructive flooding is anything but a secret. Meteorologists and climatologists have been warning of the […]
By David Bacon This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. For Maria Zavala’s family, there are no easy years. But last year brought […]
By Pilar Marrero This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. After interviewing hundreds of farmworkers in three states for a study of the impact […]
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