housing That’s a wrap for California Legislature By Lynn La | CalMatters | September 15, 2023 Labor groups win big this year.
Business & Finance As more Californians allege on-the-job violations, labor groups say bosses retaliate By Jeanne Kuang and Alejandra Reyes-Velarde | CalMatters | September 1, 2023 The state’s waitlist for investigations and hearings is growing, and few workers have won their claims.
Business & Finance California’s medical board can’t pay its bills, but doctors resist proposed fixes By Annie Sciacca | KFF Health News | August 25, 2023 The bill faces a pivotal vote in the State Assembly’s Appropriations Committee this month.
business How California’s ‘hot labor summer’ broke down wealth, class barriers By Alejandra Reyes-Velarde | CalMatters | August 8, 2023 It’s too soon to say if the inter-union activity will get employers to bargain.
California Industry groups vie in Sacramento for share of $11 billion in new Medicaid money By Angela Hart and Samantha Young | KFF Health News | July 21, 2023 Most of the money is earmarked for higher payments to doctors, hospitals, and other providers but details have yet to be worked out.
Business & Finance Got COVID from a loved one who was at work? Their employer owes you nothing, California court rules By Nigel Duara | CalMatters | July 11, 2023 State supreme court leery of setting unwieldy precedent with workers’ comp payout to a Bay Area woman who sued her husband's employer.
Bay Area Will California’s largest pensions, CalPERS and CalSTRS, divest from fossil fuels? By Grace Gedye | CalMatters | June 30, 2023 Climate activists and some lawmakers say shedding about $15 billion of fossil fuel holdings would reduce oil and gas companies’ political power.
business Renters’ rights: California advocates chip away at landlords’ political influence By Alejandra Reyes-Velvarde | CalMatters | June 15, 2023 As groups representing landlords and real estate pour millions of dollars into political coffers, tenant groups are celebrating recent victories.
Bay Area California’s COVID unemployment reckoning goes national By Lauren Hepler | CalMatters | June 12, 2023 Newly released book details the technical and political failures that plague major civic tech efforts like CA's EDD pandemic response.
climate change California ranchers intentionally violated an emergency water order. Now lawmakers want to triple the fines By Rachel Becker | CalMatters | June 9, 2023 Even if fines had reached $10,000 a day, “I’m not so sure we wouldn’t have done it again,” one rancher says.