California’s seniors lost an estimated $10.9 billion to fraud in 2020
Financial scams targeting seniors have skyrocketed during the pandemic, leaving holes in Californian seniors' retirement savings.
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Report suggests Prop. 13 tax breaks favor wealthy neighborhoods
Homeowners in wealthy and white neighborhoods tend to get bigger tax breaks under Prop. 13 than those in less wealthy and minority neighborhoods, according to a new report.
‘Just transition’ bill for oil industry workers exposes labor rift
Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, a leading environmental lawmaker, has a bill to create a state fund to support and retrain oil industry workers as California strives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
Community groups renew push for health equity and racial justice fund
Nonprofit clinics, tribal organizations and other community groups return to Sacramento for a second year to press for a $100 million health equity and racial justice fund. Gov. Gavin Newsom...
Targeted universalism: A solution for inequality?
As policy experts grapple with how best to address racial inequalities that have worsened in California during the pandemic, a new, more involved policy approach offers promise even as it...
Empower workers or government overreach? California’s fast food bill tests labor laws
As union representation has bottomed out in some of the country's lowest-paid industries, a group of California lawmakers and labor leaders are pushing to test a version of sectoral bargaining,...
California’s severe racial inequities: What can the state do with a $31 billion surplus?
California is a state of contrasts. On the one hand, it is flush with a $31 billion budget surplus from the gains of the rich, enabling it to spend record...
Researchers worry that low-income Californians may have trouble repaying unemployment benefits
California is requiring unemployment recipients to retroactively prove their work history – but experts say low-income recipients could be forced to repay money they don’t have. Some even say ineligible...
New study finds millions of workers are ‘functionally unemployed’
Officially, California has 1.4 million unemployed residents, but a new study that takes into account people who can’t find jobs that pay above poverty level says the number of “functionally...
‘I don’t recognize myself anymore’; How the pandemic drowned a working mom in debt
Commercial real estate agent Maybelle Manio is one of many middle-class Californians who found themselves financially stranded by the pandemic. The 42-year-old commercial real estate agent turned to public support...
