Poverty

Drug discounts aimed at rural hospitals serving uninsured or low-income patients actually profit hospitals that don’t serve those patients.

Only 3% of the state’s homeless beds are reserved for youth, which feeds a pipeline to chronic homelessness. Most vulnerable: foster kids.

The 2026-27 proposal fails to respond to President Donald Trump’s cuts. Nor does it help families meet needs for housing, food and health care.

Political intrigue grabs attention during election years, but California voters are also moved by high costs, joblessness and homelessness.

First-generation students lack the extra help with exams and college applications that rich kids' families can buy. A new program and tax could change that.

As oil and gas companies pivot to plastic, certain California neighborhoods become unhealthy sacrifice zones again.

Guest Commentary written by Hannah Mudgett Hannah Mudgett is a student at University of California, Berkeley, pursuing a master’s in public health Every day more than 5 million Californians rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known here as CalFresh, to keep food on the table. It is our state’s largest anti-hunger program.  Yet […]

The state's upper class espouses equality politics and social justice, while pushing policies that keep low wage workers living in poverty.

Statistics don't do much to convince people of the seriousness of homelessness or persuade them that it's getting better or worse. What matters is how it brushes up against them.

President Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding unless states and local jurisdictions that have taken cash bail off the table reinstate it.