On a muggy June morning, a handful of rideshare drivers descended on Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport with stacks of red, white and blue leaflets, limp in the heat, that demanded to “end unfair ...

Following the money reveals the gaming of the state’s initiative process. California’s Proposition 34, on the ballot in November, is about a number of things. It’s a clash that involves a couple of ...

Wildfires can be especially devastating for low-income families, often leaving them with long, difficult paths to recovery. That has been true for single mother Dia James, 36, and her 12-year-old son ...

New scorecard reveals extent of private equity’s role in fossil fuel finance. Welcome to “Feet to the Fire: Big Oil and the Climate Crisis,” a newsletter in which we share our latest reporting on how ...

Experts say that policies such as higher taxes on the wealthy and expanded child care are both effective and popular. This raises a basic question: Were the benefits of Biden’s economic policies just ...

The bill would have made it easier to file heat-related workers’ compensation. A Capital & Main investigation found field safety inspections fell 30% in seven years. Farmworkers in California are ...

To achieve consistent pay and benefits, IHSS workers seek to negotiate directly with the state instead of with 58 individual counties. Jesus Saavedra, 71, began picking cotton in California’s Central ...

Where prisons are located, the way they are built, and the health condition of prisoners means deaths will likely increase with climate change, experts say. Lawrence Cox often found himself drenched ...

In March 2020, with the coronavirus pandemic raging, Dan Bane, then CEO of Trader Joe’s, sent a letter to the popular grocery chain’s employees. He blamed union advocates for driving discontent among ...

Proposition 4 would fund infrastructure to relieve brutally hot days such as those that just scorched Los Angeles. A blistering September heat wave roasted residents for a week and drove temperatures ...

Faculty, students, labor groups and the American Civil Liberties Union say the harder line on demonstrations may be discriminatory. It’s too early to know the full effect of enhanced restrictions ...

Ray Suarez explores immigrants’ struggles and hopes in the United States as they strive to make this country their place of belonging. For Ray Suarez, “home” is one of the most evocative words in the ...