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Many of us have personal connections to California’s public lands and rivers; it’s imperative that we protect these places for the next generation.

As the global economy picks up, strategic public investments in clean transportation will create jobs in California.

By eliminating sentencing enhancements, we can incentivize positive behavior at maximum-security prisons like Pelican Bay.

Providing independent contractors access to labor protections and benefits would help businesses comply with labor laws and spread costs more evenly.

Here are three things policymakers must stop doing so California can create healthy employment growth for economic recovery.

Critics don’t understand that the end of our school day is in no way the end of our workday, it’s just the end of the first shift.

Streamlined regulatory processes for ecosystem restoration in California will be critical to growing green jobs and meeting environmental goals.

Lawmakers must stand with workers and oppose efforts by gig companies that want legislation to further dismantle workers’ rights.

As farmworkers prepare for their second pandemic-era harvest, it is time the state does everything it can to ensure their safety.

The ethnic studies curriculum will be a historic win for communities and students that public schools have traditionally ignored.