Economy

Forget the notion of a V-shaped recovery. Unemployment leveled off around 16% in May, but a retreat to isolation and the end of some relief funds could lengthen the state’s economic recovery — and deepen inequality.

Once a rarity, state takeovers of on-the-edge nursing homes are expected to become more common as the pandemic tips facilities further into chaos.

Hotel and travel businesses will have to rehire by seniority. Oakland is the latest city to pass a "right to recall" ordinance, following San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Nearly 275,000 Black Californians have left high-cost cities, often for safer, suburban enclaves. Familiar obstacles follow.

Hotel and airport workers are pushing Oakland’s City Council to adopt right to recall legislation.

As coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to spike, California Gov. Gavin Newsom closes indoor activities at restaurants, wineries, movie theaters, museums and card rooms while also ordering breweries and bars to close all operations, indoors and out.

How does the nation's biggest public pension system pay down its debts amid a global economic collapse? One idea: Become a banker.

From Silicon Valley startups to Gavin Newsom’s wine business, a rundown of who got what from the federal coronavirus business loan program.

Despite state programs, low-income and minority applicants struggle to break into legal cannabis market.

In one fell swoop, the coronavirus pandemic took California’s state finances from “Celebrate Good Times” to no cause for much celebration at all. Here’s our two-minute recap of what you need to know: So when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the state’s $202.1 billion budget — putting a lid on weeks of negotiations with California legislators — […]