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2025年1月24日 · Capital & Main has had stories co-published in more than 30 media outlets, from The Atlantic, Time, Reuters, The Guardian and Fast Company to The American Prospect, Grist, Slate and the Daily Beast.Working with top writers, editors and visual artists, we cover income inequality, climate change, the green economy, housing, health care, public education, …

Peter Hong. Editor-in-Chief. Hong served for 15 years as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where he covered numerous beats for the Metro and Business sections, as well as reporting from Washington, D.C., Iraq, Taiwan and various U.S. states.He produced major investigative pieces on Los Angeles city and county government, and wrote news, analytical and feature stories on …

2 天之前 · In the 2024 election, Donald Trump was favored by lower-income and middle-income voters who cited their own economic hardship and expressed confidence that he would improve their lives. It was a major turnaround from the 2016 election, when Trump lost among voters earning less than $100,000. Yet Trump’s pick to head the White House Office of Management …

COLUMNS THE ARC Erin Aubry Kaplan examines the persistent barriers to racial justice and opportunities for progress in an era of receding black presence

2025年1月31日 · Pedro Rios’ paternal grandparents were both born in the United States, yet the government forced them to move to Mexico in the 1930s. They were teenagers at the time. Rios, the director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program, guesses that government officials sent his grandparents on trains to the border, but he doesn’t know …

2025年1月30日 · Even as the first few weeks of their strike against Kaiser Permanente last fall rolled by without movement on a new contract, mental health care professionals in Southern California remained guardedly optimistic.. Kaiser, after all, had already been through grueling labor negotiations with mental health care workers in Northern California and Hawaii in recent …

2025年1月24日 · Under a New Law, California Schools Hope Insurance Changes Lead to More Student Therapy. In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.

2025年1月20日 · STRIKING BACK: Can American Workers Disrupt Inequality? This two-year series explores how American workers across political, geographic and racial lines

The health care provider canceled patient appointments during a 2022 strike. State regulators say they are making sure the company does not break the law during the current strike in Southern California.