Local: Jobs and work support could curtail LA’s stubborn homeless crisis
From today’s LA Times: Providing jobs and other aid to Los Angeles County residents soon after they land in the streets could help prevent 2,600 to 5,200 people a year…
From today’s LA Times: Providing jobs and other aid to Los Angeles County residents soon after they land in the streets could help prevent 2,600 to 5,200 people a year…
From today’s New York Times: The anxiety and seething anger that followed the disappearance of middle-income jobs in factory towns has helped reshape the American political map and topple longstanding…
From today’s Forbes Magazine: The gender pay gap is the most entrenched barrier to equality women face. It seems so simple: equal pay for equal work. But the formula is…
From today’s The Hill: There’s never a good time for tariffs. American workers and consumers will pay dearly for the Trump administration’s short-sighted action to protect an industry that shows…
From today’s New York Times: When she woke up one morning last week, Tiffany Bell, a teacher at Hamilton Elementary School here, had $35 in her bank account. On take-home…
From the Los Angeles Times: On this day in 1962, President Kennedy laid out in a speech to Congress the framework for a consumer bill of rights and the crucial…
From today’s LA Times: Before the 2008 financial crisis, BAC Community Bank in Stockton made about 100 mortgage loans a year. Now, after new regulations mandated in the Dodd-Frank Wall…
From today’s New York Times: On July 25, 2013, a high-ranking federal law enforcement officer took a public stand against malfeasance on Wall Street. Preet Bharara, then the United States…
From the New York Times: Having wiped out the requirement for people to have health insurance, Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a new target: the mandate in the…
In honor of MLK Day, we post a short educational video here with excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Baldwin that draw the connection between racial injustice and…