Click the right arrow button to go to the next slide. This is an encore posting from our State of Inequality series [divider] (Andy Warner’s...
Click on the right arrow button to go to the next slide. Data and research for this story were provided by Charlie Eaton of U.C. Berkeley’s Department of...
(Editor’s Note: This is an encore posting from our State of Inequality series.) March 1, 2060 Dear Granddaughter, Just the other day, you asked me...
As this series has made clear, “The California Chasm” is a challenge that threatens to transform the state into a shadow of its former self....
When people think of Los Angeles, what comes to mind first? Maybe Disneyland, Hollywood for sure, perhaps our proximity to the beach, but definitely traffic—the infamous...
With tongue firmly planted in cheek Thursday, a beaming Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti credited two secret weapons for helping him break a deadlock among a...
This month the U.S. and China reached an historic and unexpected agreement on climate change. As a follow-up, China announced that it will cap its coal...
Why are the port truck drivers on strike? It is well known that the U.S. economy relies in part on jobs generated or networked around the...
I’m currently taking an Occidental College class called Community Organizing – a required class for my Urban and Environmental Policy major. We’ve spent the last couple...
The police stop a young man. An officer shoots, killing him. The officer claims self-defense, that the killing was warranted. The community, having endured years of...
Today is a big day for Lionsgate Entertainment, and we want to help celebrate. That’s why on the occasion of the annual shareholder’s meeting of this...
For many, the legacy of Labor Day has been forgotten. We forget about the struggle that so many fought and even died for to achieve decent...
35th Annual Labor Day Parade: Join the L.A. labor movement as we celebrate Labor Day weekend! Monday, September 1 Parade begins 10 a.m., Broad Ave. and...
(Note: The following opinion piece was written by a single mother of two children who fears losing her job. For this reason her name has been...
It might surprise many to learn that business people all over America have joined the fight against economic inequality. Here are 10 notable, wealthy individuals who...
When asked by the Los Angeles Times to explain the movement to raise the minimum wage for the city’s hotel workers, one worker said, “At $15...
After a long hiatus from the spotlight, the immigration debate has flared up once more. Following an incendiary incident in which anti-immigration protesters in Murrieta, California...
Last month Julian Bond, the pioneering civil rights activist and former Georgia state legislator, addressed an audience gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to celebrate and analyze the...
California Tax Breaks — What’s Wrong With This Picture? Amid continued squabbling over whether to boost the California film and television production tax incentive program, the...
The City Breathing Consider three a.m. when the city begins to breathe without labor, its inky exhalations unfolding around the custodians of night: doorman, trash picker,...