economic inequality

A new poll shows 52% of California's likely voters favor Prop 40. But if either of two other measures gets more votes, that can still nullify it.

California no longer leads the nation in cost-adjusted poverty; it's No. 2. Rivals will likely weaponize that status anyway should Gov. Gavin Newsom run for president.

The Lineage Logistics fire was the fifth major crisis to hit East Los Angeles in six consecutive years. The community and its local businesses are still seeking relief.

Regressive federal funding cuts have put a healthcare crisis on California's doorstep. Proposition 40 will make billionaires pay their fair share and bring relief to Californians, a nurse argues.

A conversation with G. Cristina Mora and Tianna S. Paschel, authors of “Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide”

Amid a national backlash, is California willing to move from celebrations of freedom to building the structural conditions for Black people to permanently thrive?

California frequently turns to minimum wage hikes to offset the state's high living costs, but that creates economic pressures that can also squeeze households stuck in the middle.

California scored high on the economy, mental health and children and families, but low on its labor force, inequality and the environment in a research project comparing states.

California understands the pathway into homelessness. What the state still lacks is a coordinated system designed to interrupt it before families lose housing.

State public purpose programs add hundreds of dollars to each electric bill annually. Rooftop solar subsidies account for about half that.