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One Person Stopped California’s Divestment From Fossil Fuels — Again

Assemblymember Tina McKinnor refused to take up the bill in a committee, for the second year in a row, as divestment movement grows.

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Promise of Federal Funds Offers Hope to El Paso and Other Cities Amid Affordable Housing Crisis

Housing costs have soared in the Texas city in recent years, while the state cuts back on funding.

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L.A. Lawmakers Could Empower More Tenants to Sue Landlords for Harassment

The city could guarantee payment to lawyers who win cases for renters, as alleged abuses continue despite 2021 anti-harassment law.

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Unions Are Also Fighting Weak Labor Laws

Outdated 1935 federal labor act makes violations hard to prove, penalties easy to pay.

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New California Board Has Power to Order Pay Raises and Protections for Workers

Following fast-food industry blocking of reforms, lawmakers bring back a wage commission. Such bodies have expanded rights for low-wage workers in other states.

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Striking Actors, Writers, Hotel Workers Make the Personal Political

With employers stalling, unions seek to build public pressure by spotlighting CEO pay and corporate excess.

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Like Most Leisure & Hospitality Workers, Mariachi Vaneza Calderón Won’t Be on Vacation This Summer. That’s Not Healthy.

Everyone benefits when the folks who help other folks relax get their break.

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Americans With Health Insurance Are Increasingly Putting Off Important Medical Treatments They Can’t Afford

Health insurance CEOs pocket millions while citizens can’t pay the out-of-pocket.

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Big Oil’s War Against ‘Woke Capitalism’

The fossil fuel industry and right-wing activists are increasingly targeting investors that consider environmental and social issues — but is it working?

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How We Found What the City of L.A. Didn’t: Landlords Renting Low-Cost Housing to Tourists

Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.

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How the Solidarity of Black Workers Advanced Labor Rights for All

A scholar uncovers her family’s story, and America’s.

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Bumps in the Air: What’s Climate Change Got to Do With It?

Add shaky planes, weather delays and cancellations to our new reality under unfriendly warming skies.

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How Striking Hollywood Creators and Hotel Housekeepers Face the Same Obstacles

With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.

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Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms

Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.

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California Centers Respond to Climate Change With Social Change

Low-income neighborhoods are often dangerously hotter than wealthier areas. At “resilience hubs” there is shelter to survive, with programming for communities to thrive.

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Proposed Law Would Reduce Barriers to Mental Health Care for California Youth

The legislation would overhaul the process to appeal denials of coverage by private health insurance companies.

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L.A. Promised to Preserve Low-Cost Housing. These Tenants’ Homes Were Turned Into Hotel Rooms Anyway.

When the American Hotel converted into a tourist hotel, its long-term residents lost not just their affordable housing but the creative community that long thrived in the iconic building.

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Los Angeles Housing Department Will Investigate Residential Hotels

Following a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation, which found that buildings meant for housing are instead being rented to tourists, the mayor’s office asked for a review.

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Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Developers tout hydrogen as a clean energy source; Navajo opponents say it is another way outsiders will profit by harming their environment and health.

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The Truth About the Los Angeles Hotel Workers’ Strike

Despite recent wins, union members still can’t afford to live anywhere near where they work.

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Checked Out: How L.A. Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels

Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, some hotels may be violating that law by offering rooms to tourists.

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How the Oil and Gas Industry Is Quietly Thwarting Progress on the Climate Crisis, Yet Again

From California to Pennsylvania to New Mexico and beyond, lobbyists and their lawmaker allies have used a variety of tactics, including alleged deception.

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California Bill Would Make Fast Food Corporations Liable for Labor Violations

Parent companies now shielded from exposure would be held accountable along with individual franchise owners.

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Only Five of California’s 120 Legislators Are Renters; They Have United to Fight for Tenants

The renters’ caucus is pushing to win both protections and political clout for the state’s 17 million renters.

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California’s Decoy Carbon Capture Bill Shut Down Following Capital & Main Report

State senator cites story, which revealed oil lobbyist’s misleading tactics.

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