California group fights eminent domain, racism
Beverly Moore recalls feeling a wave of relief when her family rented a house in Richmond, California after their prior house burned down in the late 1950s.
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Though wage theft is a crime, few California DAs file charges for it
It took two shifts to clean the five-story central Los Angeles office building where Edith Lopez worked as a janitor.
State withdraws plans to limit internet and cell phone discount for low-income Californians
The withdrawal comes after months of objections and mounting pressure from state legislators, LifeLine provider companies, and ordinary Californians who submitted 38 public comments to the commission.
Reparations task force: State could owe Black Californians hundreds of thousands of dollars
Black Californians could be due hundreds of thousands of dollars for housing discrimination, incarceration, and health disparities alone, consultants said at reparations task force hearings.
Study says California employers fail to keep food, farm workers safe from COVID
A new report uses Cal/OSHA data to show how California food production employers failed to keep workers safe from COVID-19.
Reparations could include tuition, housing grants, California task force says
California’s first-in-the-nation task force to identify reparations said business loans, housing grants, tuition, wage and job protections could provide redress for African Americans.
New fund to plant seeds of reparations for California’s Native American communities
A racial equity organization is announcing a new fund that will help Native American communities preserve tribal history and further California efforts to atone for its history of violence and...
A Silicon Valley lawmaker wants to protect workers from employer spying
A workplace tech accountability bill would force employers to tell workers they’re being spied on and would ban surveillance outside of work.
