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Nationwide, only 3% of fast-food workers belong to unions.

Amid growing awareness of inequality, California is considering a radical proposal: Allow the state to negotiate wages, hours and work conditions for an entire industry. Story from @CalMatters.

Amid growing awareness of inequality and jobs that don’t pay enough to cover child care and housing, California is considering a radical proposal: Allow the...

Will Swaim served as the late alt-weekly's lefty leader before going on to war with Democrats, public-sector unions as the California Policy Center's president.

Print this article CARLSBAD, California — A city councilwoman who filed frivolous restraining orders against two local bloggers critical of her liberal politics has been ordered to pay $47,191 in attorney fees, a Superior Court judge ruled Friday. Democrat Cori Schumacher is also facing a recall for the incident in addition to attempting to push through COVID-19 punishment measures against businesses and residents who defied California’s yearlong lockdown. “She doesn’t understand tha...

Print this article Once they find out about the April 19, 2021, issue, that morning, at dawning, the birdies will sing, and everything . . . Yes, it is a big and bursting edition, a very special one, about California, and about — leaving it. Assembled into three sections (“What Made California Great,” “California’s Self-Destruction,” and “Can California Be Saved?”) the issue’s twenty pieces cover the rise and fall, the glory-days past and the grim present and the does-i...

Sumona Gupta is a student and organizer based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. An air of uncertainty hung above the United States on November 3, 2020—no one knew how the presidential election would play out, how long it would take to decide, when the backlash against the winner would begin, or if it would turn into violence. One thing was relatively certain, though: California would vote overwhelmingly for Joe Biden. Indeed, Biden won the state with 64.6 percent of the vote, a historically large margi...