September 2, 2020

Los legisladores del estado buscaban una extensión del desempleo de $600 por semana y miles de millones en subsidios de impuestos. La inacción federal, la ansiedad económica y la pandemia descarrilaron esos planes.

Why did a lawmaker need to bring her newborn to the COVID-exposed state Capitol to do her job? To help pass a new family leave law.

Foster Farms shut down its main chicken processing facility in Livingston on Tuesday evening amid a coronavirus outbreak that health officials say has claimed the lives of at least eight workers. About 1,400 employees were sent home with pay until at least Monday, Sept. 7, according to a statement by the company. They will be tested […]

Good morning, California. It’s Wednesday, September 2. Housing, police, economic bills Gov. Gavin Newsom made his 2020 priorities for California very clear in his February State of the State speech: Address homelessness and pass a major housing production bill. But the state’s highest-profile housing bill died minutes before the legislative session ended Monday amid political […]

State lawmakers aimed for a $600-a-week unemployment extension and billions in tax vouchers. Federal inaction, economic anxiety and the pandemic derailed those plans.

The COVID-19 pandemic has added to the human toll and the fiscal burden of the nation’s prisons, highlighting the long overdue need for prison reform.

The University of California is laying off hundreds of workers in the midst of a pandemic, pushing employees onto the unemployment system.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom' is making his third major attempt to strike a balance between fighting COVID-19 and protecting the economy.