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If your paycheck isn’t right, and you suspect your employer may be stealing your wages, the state or federal government could help address issues of wage theft — but it may take some research, records and patience on your part. Here are some resources.
Two local ballot initiatives this November will decide whether healthcare workers in private hospitals and other health facilities (like private dialysis clinics) should receive a minimum wage increase to $25 an hour: Measure HC in Inglewood and Measure J in Duarte.
After vetoing a similar bill last year and resisting months of United Farm Workers (UFW) marches, vigils and posturing, including a note from President Biden — Newsom changed his mind on the farmworker union bill, AB 2183.
The latest employment data reveal that after 28 months, California has finally recovered the millions of private sector jobs it lost during the COVID-19 recession.
Purépecha community members are on the frontlines of the Salton Sea environmental and health justice crisis — one of California's worst — but they're frequently unable to participate in policy discussions regarding lithium extraction, water quality, air pollution and more.
Pressel Orchard, one of the few remaining citrus groves in Orange County, was also the starting point for a long-forgotten but influential orange-picker strike.
The so-called “exchange contract” has created a surreal split-screen effect: One group of farmers has ample water. Another has almost none.
From California’s citrus heyday in the 1800s to Cold War military expansion, the Inland Empire has been a center of shipping and distribution. Today’s warehouses boom, linked to ongoing environmental degradation and job insecurity, has its roots in the science of war and in long histories of land and labor exploitation.
Reflecting on the changes that have occurred during the pandemic, Dr. Manuel Pastor discusses how society can reverse the bad and build on the good. The future is forged through our every day actions.
Companies progress towards commercial lithium drilling at the Salton Sea, while teams of researchers explore questions about effective extraction methods and environmental impacts.
The Newsom administration plans to spend $4.4 billion addressing mental health needs among young people. But will it come soon enough?
In the personal essay below, Rubén Martínez, host of Excavating the Future, reflects on individual and collective experiences over the past two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID a global pandemic on March 11, 2020.