Economy

The pandemic collides with the state's homelessness and housing affordability woes.

A line of 500 to 600 people standing six feet apart snaked around a parking lot and multiple city blocks in downtown Los Angeles. Many were hotel and restaurant workers, Dodger Stadium employees and airline chefs. All had lost their jobs or were working reduced hours amid the coronavirus pandemic. One by one, they walked […]

Donna Insalaco had to lay off 40 of the 45 employees at Pizzaiolo, her gourmet pizzeria in downtown Oakland, after sales fell through a “black hole.” “A lot of tears,” Insalaco said, “All of us here live check-to-check.” Responding to a statewide call for restaurants to close their doors to dine-in customers, Pizzaiolo is now […]

With wide swaths of the economy shutting down, tenants groups are disappointed by the governor's response.

With Bay Area residents ordered to start sheltering at home Tuesday to help stop the spread of coronavirus, labor groups, businesses and workers are scrambling to understand how the lockdown will affect thousands of workers who aren’t telecommuting or whose jobs can’t be done remotely. On Monday, less than 24 hours after Gov. Gavin Newsom […]

Mary Ellen Sanchez, a single mother of six in Fresno, works as an in-home supportive service provider for two women. One is paralyzed from the neck down, and the other one is in her late 60s. Like over 400,000 in-home supportive service workers across the state represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 2015, she receives only […]

A global pandemic is upending California's 2020 census outreach efforts while community organizers report difficulty getting residents to set aside privacy concerns — and government distrust. The risk of an undercount could cost a congressional seat and billions in federal funding.

Disneyland will close under state pressure to limit large gatherings. Gov. Gavin Newsom warned to expect more closures.

Health care has become a high risk job in the wake of the coronavirus and workers are nervous. In California, unions are rallying to the cause.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s top economic officials sought to reassure Californians in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and a Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.