A ballot measure to raise pay to $23 an hour could help workers in labor negotiations and boost the local economy.
Since Joanne Erickson lost her apartment, volunteers, housing groups and government representatives have tried — and failed — to find her a home. Her story shows how seniors are falling through our social safety net.
Health care exchange workers say the Biden administration should force their employer to provide good jobs.
Jessica Goodheart, Steve Marble and Cerise Castle bring broad and deep experience to our coverage of inequality and the climate crisis.
Unable to walk or use her arms, Karen Mickett can work and live on her own. A mass eviction at her Los Angeles apartment complex threatens her fragile independence.
Using money, mass mobilizations and culture wars, church leaders get their members — and sometimes themselves — elected to office.
They will still directly fund coal plants that are taking steps to abate their emissions using the untested technology.
Tim Thompson engineered a school board takeover by recruiting and financing candidates who run against race, religion and gender identity policies.
In the Arab American enclave of Dearborn, anxiety, depression and substance abuse strain the “9/11 generation.”
It is one of the state’s greatest health needs, companies fail to live up to their policies, and the state does not invest what is needed for enforcement.
A new book argues that the disappearance of private sector unions is part of the answer.
Etowah could emerge as a major player in energy sustainability and U.S. energy security.
An upstart performer group is joining the fight to get the famous Austin festival to pay its fair share.
After the hottest summer on record, officials vow again to make the city’s tree cover more equitable.
Winner of the Frieze L.A. art fair’s Impact Prize uses quilting to reveal the reality of life in prison.
Rejecting years of unequal treatment, 20,000 low-paid California State University student assistants and workers vote to organize.
Oil and gas firm plans new wells near Aurora Reservoir and the Lowry Landfill Superfund site.
From Biden vs. Trump to an oil well referendum in California, climate change debate is all over the ballot in federal, state and local contests.
But a tax break for low-producing stripper wells gets slipped into a package with green energy breaks.
Opponents say a program that gives valuable credits for making fuels from crops and dairy waste props up fossil fuels companies and pollutes nearby communities.