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Reimagining Care Across Generations
Three policy experts explore how California can expand access to childcare, healthcare, and eldercare through abundance policy design.
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Mental Health
How an aging California is turning to senior centers for romance, community and health
No two senior centers are alike. We visited three very different venues in L.A. to learn how they're changing to meet the needs of California's aging population.
Mental Health
‘We wanted to find new friends’: See how older Californians are proving that senior isolation isn’t inevitable
Los Angeles senior centers are rebounding from COVID shutdowns and offering new programs for older adults. See how life changed for participants since the pandemic.
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5 things we learned by spending time in Los Angeles senior centers
No two California senior centers are alike. They're shaped by their neighborhoods with programs that range from gym classes to meals, movie nights and more.
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Reimagining Economic Opportunity as a Public Good
California researchers propose abundance-oriented policy solutions to make quality education, jobs, and internet access accessible for everyone.
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California has plenty. So why do millions still struggle for food, water, and basic safety?
Designing abundance into policy: creating opportunities to improve the supply, distribution, and allocation of food, water, and safety to meet basic needs.
Inside the Newsroom
CalMatters’ Anat Rubin wins Sidney Award for outstanding investigative journalism that exposes social and economic injustices
The reporting “speaks volumes about the role that public defenders play in maintaining the integrity of the whole system, not just in defending their clients.”
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What would it take to make housing, energy, and transportation affordable in California?
Designing “abundance” into Californians' lives means policies that challenge the status quo and re-examine how, what, why and where we build.
Impact
How CalMatters kept our government transparent and our leaders accountable in 2025
In 2025, CalMatters’ and The Markup’s reporting prompted lawmakers to introduce eight new bills, agencies to take action, companies to change their practices and constituents to contact their representatives.
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Immigration and Healthy Communities
California is a state of immigrants. Research shows how current state and federal policies are affecting immigrant communities and California as a whole.