As insurers reject coverage amid soaring anxiety and depression, a bill to help children and teens is quietly killed.
When one conference declined to cancel, a union walkout helped drive other concessions.
Unionizing is not against the law; but the law is against unionizing.
Low-income working families and people of color continue to be hit hardest.
Outdated 1935 federal labor act makes violations hard to prove, penalties easy to pay.
Health insurance CEOs pocket millions while citizens can’t pay the out-of-pocket.
With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.
The renters’ caucus is pushing to win both protections and political clout for the state’s 17 million renters.
Even the safest hospitals still display wide gaps in health outcomes based on patients’ skin color.
Puzzling denials and delays still plague some who seemed to qualify for help.
Two California cases probe who is pocketing those extra fees tacked onto your restaurant tab.
From Cocaine Bear to Panda Express, the fight for a living wage is the same.
How to help health care workers live where they are employed.
While it ponders ambitious new laws to improve mental health, California could strengthen what’s already on the books.
Millions in the Golden State are failing to keep on the right side of the growing wealth divide.
The district’s massive cash reserve could cover the demands of striking workers. There is a way, but is there the will?
With parents forced to quit work to replace workers they can’t afford, the child care system is in full disarray.
The economic future of millions of Californians hangs in the balance.
Organizing franchises is swell, but the attacks on unionization drives must stop.
Making developers who stoke the housing crisis repair the damage they’ve done.