Martha Groves

Public companies headquartered in California have until Jan. 1 to name at least one female director. The new law has prompted some widely anticipated  lawsuits — and some surprising boardroom diversity. 

Will the Trump administration be allowed to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 U.S. Census? If so, experts say, California could lose big.

So far, the worst-case scenario has not come to pass, and some products, such as pistachios, have dodged Trump’s trade-war bullet. But the damage has not been insignificant to California's economy.

Opponents of SB 826, a new California law mandating gender diversity in corporate boardrooms, warn that it will be challenged in court. Defenders of the law say it will bring California corporations into the 21st century.

The California Chamber of Commerce called the state's small business family leave protections a 'job killer.' Here's how Hannah-Beth Jackson's Senate Bill 63 is really working out.