After a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation found that landlords were turning low-cost housing into tourist hotels, the city ordered some building owners to comply with the law.
Low-income working families and people of color continue to be hit hardest.
A new type of disaster reporting is needed to keep up.
The Treasurer’s Office paid $73.2 million to banks that sell state climate bonds while still funding fossil fuels.
Assemblymember Tina McKinnor refused to take up the bill in a committee, for the second year in a row, as divestment movement grows.
Housing costs have soared in the Texas city in recent years, while the state cuts back on funding.
The city could guarantee payment to lawyers who win cases for renters, as alleged abuses continue despite 2021 anti-harassment law.
Outdated 1935 federal labor act makes violations hard to prove, penalties easy to pay.
Following fast-food industry blocking of reforms, lawmakers bring back a wage commission. Such bodies have expanded rights for low-wage workers in other states.
With employers stalling, unions seek to build public pressure by spotlighting CEO pay and corporate excess.
Everyone benefits when the folks who help other folks relax get their break.
Three years after Floyd’s death, a poet searches for meaning amid 400 years of Black dispossession.
Health insurance CEOs pocket millions while citizens can’t pay the out-of-pocket.
The fossil fuel industry and right-wing activists are increasingly targeting investors that consider environmental and social issues — but is it working?
Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.
A scholar uncovers her family’s story, and America’s.
Add shaky planes, weather delays and cancellations to our new reality under unfriendly warming skies.
With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.
Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.
Low-income neighborhoods are often dangerously hotter than wealthier areas. At “resilience hubs” there is shelter to survive, with programming for communities to thrive.