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Laurence Du Sault

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Laurence Du Sault covers inequality and the income gap for The Mercury News as part of CalMatters' California Divide collaboration. She has reported on child welfare and police misconduct at the Investigative Reporting Program and holds a master's degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Laurence speaks French and Spanish and is a Report for America corps member.

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Surprising rise in California entrepreneurs daring to start new businesses during pandemic
 Lea este artículo en español. The pandemic and stay-at-home orders have forced thousands of financially dried up California businesses to shut down, but for Dan Zhao, they became the reason to start a new one. “Before the pandemic, I just had a regular job,” said Zhao, a product manager at a San Francisco-based software company. But when […]
By • February 1, 2021
Dan Zhao, izquierda, y su padre Keguang Zhao empaquetan un Kung Pao Tofu en Cozy Wok, un restaurante chino vegetariano de entrega y comida para llevar, en Oakland, el jueves 28 de enero de 2021. Dan Zhao, gerente de producto en una empresa de software con sede en San Francisco y su padre Keguang Zhao abrieron el restaurante, que está abierto por las noches y los fines de semana, durante una pandemia. Foto de Anda Chu, Bay Area News Group
CalMatters en Español
Sorprendente aumento de empresarios de California que se atreven a iniciar nuevos negocios durante la pandemia
Read this article in English.   La pandemia y las órdenes de quedarse en casa han obligado a cerrar a miles de negocios de California agotados financieramente, pero para Dan Zhao, se convirtieron en la razón para comenzar uno nuevo. “Antes de la pandemia, solo tenía un trabajo regular”, dijo Zhao, gerente de producto de una empresa […]
By and • February 1, 2021
Mykhailo Achey, an IT consultant who moved into better housing in San Francisco. during the pandemic, takes in the balcony view from his downtown highrise, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. Photo by Karl Mondon, Bay Area News Group
California Divide
Deals in Bay Area renter’s market favor luxury seekers
Three months’ free rent on a 2-bedroom apartment with a pool in West San Jose. A Lake Merritt studio in Oakland at a 50% discount for the first six months. Two months of “complimentary rent plus a $2,000 MasterCard gift card” on a luxury high rise renting for $4,375 a month in San Francisco’s Potrero […]
By • January 15, 2021
Penny Bailey, a technology recruiter for Figma, works from home in San Francisco, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Photo by Jane Tyska, Bay Area News Group
California Divide
Pandemic creates ‘weird boom time’ for some Bay Area remote workers
  Lea este artículo en español.  Millions of California workers have faced at least one of two gut-wrenching situations this past year: losing their jobs or risking their lives by showing up in person at work during a pandemic. But for the others — the “work-from-home” contingent — things have been, well, mostly fine. “My career, […]
By • January 11, 2021
Penny Bailey, reclutadora de tecnología para Figma, trabaja desde su casa en San Francisco, el miércoles 6 de enero de 2021. Foto de Jane Tyska, Bay Area News Group
CalMatters en Español
La pandemia crea un “extraño momento de auge” para algunos trabajadores remotos del Área de la Bahía
Read this article in English.     Millones de trabajadores de California han enfrentado al menos una de dos situaciones desgarradoras el año pasado: perder sus trabajos o arriesgar sus vidas al presentarse en persona al trabajo durante una pandemia. Pero para los demás, el contingente del “trabajo desde casa”, las cosas han ido, bueno, en su mayoría […]
By and • January 11, 2021
Paz Aguilar, 54, contracted coronavirus over the summer, along with was at least seven of her coworkers, by her count, at a combined Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell in Oakland. Three weeks into her illness, a stroke left her paralyzed on one side of her body. Photo courtesy of Aguilar
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New law in 1 minute: California businesses must report COVID outbreaks
Millions of Californians continue to risk COVID-19 infection by showing up in person at work during the pandemic. But the state and federal governments have never required companies to share information about outbreaks with their employees — or to health authorities. More than nine months after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the first shelter-in-place order, a […]
By and • December 31, 2020
Marcial Delgado, al centro, posa para una foto con sus dos hijos Fernando Delgado, 12, izquierda, y Javier Alonzo, 8, afuera de su casa en Campbell, el viernes 4 de diciembre de 2020. Delgado trabajaba en la cafetería de NVidia, una compañía de tecnología con sede en Santa Clara, durante 20 años antes de que la pandemia golpeara y lo enviara a casa. La compañía todavía le paga, dijo. Foto de Ray Chavez, Bay Area News Group
CalMatters en Español
A pesar de los campus cerrados, algunas empresas de tecnología de Silicon Valley siguen pagando a los trabajadores de la cafetería, conserjes
Read this article in English.  Los cierres generalizados de empresas al comienzo de la pandemia marcaron la primera vez en casi 20 años que Marcial Delgado no podía cocinar ni servir el almuerzo en la cafetería de Nvidia. No regresó a la enorme sede de la compañía en Santa Clara durante nueve meses, pero el padre […]
By and • December 7, 2020

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