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Many of these struggling metropolitan areas are in states that could determine the 2020 election.
Racial unrest and economic uncertainty collide in the industrial Midwest.
A union representing 25,000 L.A. County hospitality workers is seeking a pause of hotel reopenings until safety issues are addressed.
Health experts say the Grand Canyon State has “lost control of the epidemic.”
An East L.A. family leans on community during the pandemic as government lets down low-income immigrants.
The Adelanto Detention Facility is again in the center of controversy, allegedly using protests taking place outside the facility as an excuse to mistreat detainees.
“‘We need a society where anti-racism is hard-wired into every policy and practice,” says labor economist Steven Pitts.
Advocates ask supervisors to act now as fatalities mount and public health dept. allows COVID patients into facilities with poor track records.
Are peaceful protesters at Adelanto Detention Center being tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed?
Hospitals and clinics that recently faced financial collapse are reopening waiting rooms. But PPE shortages and staff-risk issues remain.
The Sunshine State shows there is more than one way to suppress the kinds of figures that reveal the virus’s true human cost.
In the midst of a pandemic, some insurance companies’ profits may be even higher than had been predicted before the coronavirus hit.
Since 2003, 19 detainees have died within Arizona’s detention centers.
Facing deportation to homelands they barely remember, formerly incarcerated Southeast Asians in L.A. are fighting in court to remain here.
Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch, both black men, were found dead, hanging from trees, two weeks apart.
The first of the month has come to strike terror in renters, while homeownership seems like a fantasy to the young. How did this happen?
A November initiative is the latest battle in a long war that has driven housing costs in the Golden State exorbitantly high.
While California was convulsed by COVID-19 and George Floyd’s death, the governor gave Big Oil a big gift.
The agency also scrubbed statistics on coronavirus deaths and cases at designated nursing homes from its website.
They died in parking lots, in hospitals, in train stations and in encampments. Now the county’s homeless must face the coronavirus.