Capital & Main - Investigating Power & Politics
WEBFEET TO THE FIRE. Capital & Main - Investigating Power & Politics is an award-winning online publication that reports from California on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time.
Ten Ways Project 2025 Could Undermine Workers’ Rights
WEB1 day ago · Project 2025 calls for rolling back the Biden administration rule that raised the salary threshold to $58,656 and expanded the protection to 4.3 million more workers. Project 2025 calls for returning to the Trump-era threshold, which would mean millions fewer workers would be eligible for overtime. Another proposal to let employers calculate ...
About Capital & Main
WEBSep 10, 2024 · Capital & Main is an award-winning nonprofit publication that reports from California on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time. Capital & Main has had stories co-published in more than 30 media outlets, from The Atlantic, Time, Reuters, The Guardian and Fast Company to …
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WEBThe Slick September 6, 2024 Elliott Woods. Texas Is the King of Greenhouse Emissions. It’s Also in the Path of the Climate Change Storm. From hurricanes to wildfires to droughts, every region of Texas is threatened by man-made climate change, vulnerability index shows. Latest News September 5, 2024 Larry Buhl.
Would Environmental Justice in California Survive a Second Trump …
WEB2 days ago · Often, the EPA declines to get involved in environmental justice cases. When advocates challenged the state’s cap and trade program in 2012, they argued the program would perpetuate pollution in communities of color by allowing refineries to use credits instead of actually reducing emissions. The EPA said the claims were “speculative” since the program had yet to launch and declined to ...
UNITED STATES OF INEQUALITY
WEBAbout the Series. Today – exactly one year before the 2020 presidential election – Capital & Main is launching a 12-month series on economic inequality in America. “United States of Inequality: 2020 and the Great Divide” will examine how tens of millions of Americans increasingly struggle to make ends meet, and how this reality will ...
COLUMNS
WEBCOLUMNS THE ARC Erin Aubry Kaplan examines the persistent barriers to racial justice and opportunities for progress in an era of receding black presence
Striking Back Series
WEBAug 2, 2024 · A novel partnership among three labor unions to organize tens of thousands of airline workers could set a national example. “Striking Back” — How Workers Across a Polarized U.S. Are Challenging Economic Inequality. Danny Feingold August 30, 2023. A new Capital & Main series explores rising labor unrest in a nation of extreme disparities.
California Poverty Has Nearly Doubled Since 2021
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The state’s overall poverty rate soared to 18.9% in 2023, according to research released this week by the California Budget & Policy Center. That’s up from 16.4% in 2022, but more significantly, it’s a staggering jump from the 11.0% rate that the center’s researchers had recorded in 2021. Join our email list to get the stories that ...
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WEBPeter Hong. Editor-in-Chief. Hong served for 15 years as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where he covered numerous beats for the Metro and Business sections, as well as reporting from Washington, D.C., Iraq, Taiwan and various U.S. states.He produced major investigative pieces on Los Angeles city and county government, and wrote news, analytical and feature stories on race and culture ...