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Ill Harvest: Falling through the cracks

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. Luis Lopez, 50, who has worked the strawberry fields in Santa Maria for […]


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Ill Harvest: Picking their poison

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. In the summer of 2008, Andres Cruz got a call from a crew […]


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Ill Harvest: Medical access — grassroots up

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. Carmen Hernandez lives in a small home on Chateau Fresno Avenue, […]


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Runaway medical bills in California

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Millions of Californians are grinding their way through an inflationary cycle that hit 40-year highs over the […]


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Shelter storm

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Rising inflation is taking a toll on most Americans, none more severely than lower income workers and families […]


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Why Walmart workers are still broke

By Peter Hong This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. In 2003, Rick Wartzman was overseeing the business section of the Los Angeles Times when his team produced a […]


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Election 2022: Red Wave mirage

By Jessica Goodheart This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Dorian Warren was living less than a 10-minute walk from the U.S. Capitol and with his new baby […]


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Waiting in pain

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. On the surface, 2022 has been a significant year for proponents of access to more timely mental health care […]


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Have it their way

By Bobbi Murray This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. The fast-food industry is hard at work to reverse a landmark employment rights measure that Gov. Gavin Newsom […]


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Conflicting interests?

By Aaron Cantú This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. With Gov. Gavin Newsom set to sign a slate of bills boosting California’s fight against climate change, regulators are […]


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‘Care crisis waiting to happen’

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Sydney O’Connor’s clients have disparate needs. One, a double transplant survivor who is almost blind, requires assistance […]


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‘Crossing the Line’ for choice

By Danny Feingold This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Long before the June 24 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Lisa Caruso decided to tell the story […]


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Massive mess

By Andy Furillo This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. The moment may be at hand for Californians to turn the tide on a sea of plastic waste that […]


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Inflation targets California’s poor

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. When I met Amparo Ramirez in March of 2020, our conversation was very much of the moment. The […]


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California preps for the endemic

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. The lifting of California’s statewide school mask mandate, leaving local districts to decide for themselves how to approach […]