Judy Lin

ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE, more than 2 million Californians are living with the stress that they could lose their homes. Most are temporarily protected by a moratorium on evictions, but they are behind on rent and debt is piling up. You’ll meet some of them in this story. They are single mothers with college educations; […]

CalMatters invited readers to share how they're getting by since the federal $600 weekly boost to unemployment benefits expired. These are their stories, in their words.

La actualización del presupuesto realizada por el gobernador proyecta que las pérdidas económicas de California afectarán de manera desproporcionada a los californianos de ingresos bajos y medios.

California faces an unprecedented $54.3 billion deficit. Finance officials announce the unemployment rate could reach 18%, worse than the Great Recession. Schools, health care and safety-net programs face devastating cuts as state and local officials seek additional federal stimulus. 

City and state leaders issued dire warnings that Los Angeles County is headed for the same surge in COVID-19 cases as New York City. The announcement comes as a $2.2 trillion federal stimulus package will pump billions into the state’s flailing economy.

The utility agreed not to pay shareholder dividends for three years — a $4 billion forfeiture. And it will get more state oversight.

Gov. Gavin Newsom warned President Donald Trump that more than half of Californians could be infected with coronavirus in the next two months. California is also seeking at least $1 billion in federal aid.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has said that if as many coronavirus patients as feared need hospitalization, surge capacity could be outstripped by up to 10,000 beds.

Government policy is one thing, real life another. What happens if your germ-carrying preschoolers suddenly pose a lethal threat to their elderly grandparents? What becomes of your teenagers’ future if their education is disrupted, long-term? How protected are we if schools cancel class but kids then disperse to malls and bounce houses and movie theaters?

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.