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Tag: Income Inequality

How California’s budget depends on staggering wealth gap

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts January 13, 2021January 12, 2021

The state’s progressive tax structure is reaping billions from the wealthiest to fund the state’s safety net. But it also reveals how the pandemic has widened the economic gulf for millions of Californians — more than the rest of the country.

Penny Bailey, a technology recruiter for Figma, works from home in San Francisco, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Photo by Jane Tyska, Bay Area News Group

Pandemic creates ‘weird boom time’ for some Bay Area remote workers

by Laurence Du Sault January 11, 2021January 12, 2021

Coronavirus wipes away recent wage gains for many California workers, report finds

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts December 15, 2020December 16, 2020
The Bay Bridge and the San Francisco skyline including the Salesforce Tower are seen in this view from the bay on Monday, March 9, 2020. Photo by Jane Tyska, Bay Area News Group

San Francisco voters approve first-in-the-nation CEO tax that targets income gap

by Laurence Du Sault November 4, 2020November 4, 2020
The Bay Bridge and the San Francisco skyline including the Salesforce Tower are seen in this view from the bay on Monday, March 9, 2020. Photo by Jane Tyska, Bay Area News Group

Amid pandemic, fighting San Francisco’s first-in-the-nation ‘overpaid CEO tax’ may be least of big business’s worries

by Laurence Du Sault October 27, 2020October 28, 2020
Brothers, Hawie Mekbib, 26, and Yarred, 20, help prune basil at Overflow Farms in Riverside, CA. Oct. 10, 2020. Photo by Tash Kimmell for CalMatters

Mutual aid: When neighbors look to each other for pandemic relief

Orlando Mayorquin by Orlando Mayorquin October 20, 2020October 27, 2020
Sarah Rivas, 27, sits for a portrait at her desk where she teaches high school history from her childhood bedroom at her parents’ home in Elk Grove, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2020. Rivas, who moved back in with her parents during lockdown and subsequently gave up her apartment in Silicon Valley, worries that she would be unable to afford a new apartment if she were to return to teaching on campus. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

For many Californians, the pandemic marks the end of ‘barely making it’

by Laurence Du Sault October 15, 2020October 15, 2020
Ben Valdez, an L.A. Uber and Lyft driver, says predicting his pay on the apps is "like going to Vegas." Photo by Tash Kimmell for Cal Matters

What to know about gig worker pay before voting on Prop. 22

Lauren Hepler by Lauren Hepler October 6, 2020October 6, 2020
Mariana with her daughter Genessis, 8, and son Gerardo, 2, on September 7, 2020. The family of four shares a one-bedroom apartment in National City but have fallen behind on rent payment due to Mariana and her husband both losing months of work amid the pandemic. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Newsom weighs aid for undocumented Californians weathering pandemic with no safety net

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts September 8, 2020September 14, 2020
Jessica Gallup and her five-and-a-half-month-old daughter Sunny on the balcony of their one bedroom apartment in South San Francisco on August 6, 2020. Gallup, an event coordinator who cannot work due to the coronavirus pandemic, placed thousands of calls to unemployment agencies before receiving benefits. Now that she will lose the $600 in additional stimulus aid, gallup worries how she will make ends meet. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Side hustles, liquidating 401(k)s: Here’s how jobless Californians are getting by without the extra $600

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts August 10, 2020October 7, 2020

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