September 2020

Health

Next up: Californians brace for the ‘twindemic’

As we head toward fall, and COVID-19 persists, experts forecast how our lives may look and the challenges we are likely to confront.

By Ana B. Ibarra • September 3, 2020

Commentary

Here’s an important part of the solution for the state’s housing crisis

There is a growing consensus that an important part of the solution to California’s housing crisis is duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes.

By Guest Commentary • September 3, 2020

CalMatters en Español

El estímulo económico por el coronavirus de California fue un fracaso… ¿y ahora qué?

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.

By Lauren Hepler • September 2, 2020

Politics

Nail-biter for family leave bill reveals tough realities for working moms

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.

By Laurel Rosenhall • September 2, 2020

California Divide

Foster Farms shut down California facility over COVID-19. So why doesn’t it look closed?

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 […]

By Manuela Tobias • September 2, 2020

WhatMatters

Fatal final day: Why major California proposals died

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 […]

By Emily Hoeven • September 2, 2020

Economy

California’s coronavirus stimulus was a bust…what now?

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.

By Lauren Hepler • September 2, 2020

Commentary

COVID-19 hotspots revealed the need for prison reform and better rehabilitation

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.

By Guest Commentary • September 2, 2020

Commentary

Instead of laying off employees, UC should use assets to give them security

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

By Guest Commentary • September 2, 2020

Dan Walters

Newsom’s third try on COVID-19

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

By Dan Walters • September 2, 2020