2021

Reader Reactions

Restricting check-cashing outlets would limit options

Without licensed financial services providers, consumers who cannot wait to access their check will resort to less regulated alternatives.

By Guest Commentary • November 18, 2021

Reader Reactions

Employees should analyze the costs of Auto-IRA program

Employers and employees subject to other state mandated retirement programs should carefully assess the details and costs.

By Guest Commentary • November 18, 2021

CalMatters en Español

Profesores de la UC ganan aumentos de sueldo, concesiones en un trato que evita una huelga de dos días

En resumen La Universidad de California y el sindicato de profesores de la UC llegaron a un acuerdo después de años de negociaciones, dando lugar a una huelga planificada. Además de los aumentos, los profesores aseguraron promesas de estabilidad laboral. Una investigación de CalMatters muestra cuán frágil es su empleo. Read this article in English.  Los […]

By Mikhail Zinshteyn • November 17, 2021

CalMatters en Español

Outgunned: La historia de una mujer, su abusador y el fallido control de armas de California

Outgunned: The story of a woman, an abuser, and California’s failing gun control By Robert Lewis November 17, 2021 Read this article in English.  Dieciocho millas al sur de la casa del Valle Central que era su prisión, cerca de la Carretera 99, pasando por huertos de almendros y camiones sobrecargados con fardos de heno, se […]

By Robert Lewis • November 17, 2021

Higher Education

UC lecturers win raises, concessions in deal that averts two-day strike

The University of California and the UC lecturers union reached an agreement after years of negotiating, heading off a planned strike. In addition to raises, the lecturers secured job stability promises following a CalMatters investigation showing how tenuous their employment is.

By Mikhail Zinshteyn • November 17, 2021

CalMatters en Español

Cal State requiere de acuerdo a su medida, que los estudiantes se vacunen contra COVID-19, pero no se aplica de manera uniforme

En resumen Cal State University requiere que todo el personal y los estudiantes que vayan al campus se vacunen. Pero la aplicación ha variado en todo el sistema. Read this article in English.    En julio, con la variante Delta del coronavirus en aumento, California State University anunció que todos los estudiantes y empleados que vayan al campus tendrían […]

By Michaella Huck, Zaeem Shaikh and Julian Mendoza • November 17, 2021

Justice

Outgunned: The story of a woman, an abuser, and California’s failing gun control

Outgunned: The story of a woman, an abuser, and California’s failing gun control By Robert Lewis November 17, 2021 Lea este artículo en español. Eighteen miles south of the Central Valley home that was her prison, down Highway 99 past almond orchards and trucks overloaded with hay bales, sits the Madera County Superior Court. The four-story […]

By Robert Lewis • November 17, 2021

WhatMatters

How California lets abusers stay armed

Good morning, California. It’s Wednesday, November 17. Loopholes in state laws Today, a man named Julio Garay is due to appear in Madera County Superior Court, where he faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing his wife, Calley Jean Garay, a month after she requested a domestic violence […]

By Emily Hoeven • November 17, 2021

College Beat

Cal State requires students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 — but it’s not evenly enforced

Cal State University requires all staff and students going on campus to get vaccinated. But enforcement has varied across the system.

By Michaella Huck, Zaeem Shaikh and Julian Mendoza • November 17, 2021

Commentary

Here’s how California’s Auto-IRA program can be even more successful

Policymakers should consider how to expand access to California’s automatic retirement savings program.

By Guest Commentary • November 17, 2021