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In Deep Red Utah, Climate Concerns Are Now Motivating Candidates

Would-be voters in this coal and oil state signal they’re increasingly alarmed by climate change.

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A California Program to Get Produce to Low-Income Families Is a Hit. Now It Is Running Out of Money.

More than 74,000 people eat healthier through the CalFresh pilot program.

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Long Beach Hotel Workers on Track to Earn the Highest Minimum Wage in the Nation

A ballot measure to raise pay to $23 an hour could help workers in labor negotiations and boost the local economy.

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‘I’m Not Gonna Let Up Until We See Changes’

Health care exchange workers say the Biden administration should force their employer to provide good jobs.

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New Roles for Top Journalists at Capital & Main

Jessica Goodheart, Steve Marble and Cerise Castle bring broad and deep experience to our coverage of inequality and the climate crisis.

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A Disease Took Her Mobility. Now, at 70, She Could Lose Her Home.

Unable to walk or use her arms, Karen Mickett can work and live on her own. A mass eviction at her Los Angeles apartment complex threatens her fragile independence.

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Power of the Pulpit: How Conservative Congregations Scale the Church-State Wall to Political Victory

Using money, mass mobilizations and culture wars, church leaders get their members — and sometimes themselves — elected to office.

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Many of the U.S. Banks Funding Coal Have an Unusual Carve-Out

They will still directly fund coal plants that are taking steps to abate their emissions using the untested technology.

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‘This Is Our Watch Now:’ The Pastor Guiding Conservatives to Southern California School Boards

Tim Thompson engineered a school board takeover by recruiting and financing candidates who run against race, religion and gender identity policies.

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How Islamophobia Is Driving a Mental Health Crisis Among Michigan’s Muslim Youth

In the Arab American enclave of Dearborn, anxiety, depression and substance abuse strain the “9/11 generation.”

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Why It Is Time for Newsom and the Legislature to Get Serious About Mental Health in California

It is one of the state’s greatest health needs, companies fail to live up to their policies, and the state does not invest what is needed for enforcement.

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Why Has the White Working Class Embraced Trump?

A new book argues that the disappearance of private sector unions is part of the answer.

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A Foundry’s Closure Devastated This Tennessee Town But a New Lithium Plant Is Giving It Hope

Etowah could emerge as a major player in energy sustainability and U.S. energy security.

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In Los Angeles, Shade Most Often Goes to the Privileged

After the hottest summer on record, officials vow again to make the city’s tree cover more equitable.

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Gary Tyler’s Journey From Death Row to the Art World

Winner of the Frieze L.A. art fair's Impact Prize uses quilting to reveal the reality of life in prison.

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Labor Scores a Victory at Cal State Campuses

Rejecting years of unequal treatment, 20,000 low-paid California State University student assistants and workers vote to organize.

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Another New Mexico Legislative Session Ends, and Again — No New Oil and Gas Reforms

But a tax break for low-producing stripper wells gets slipped into a package with green energy breaks.

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After Pushback, California Delays Extension of Rewards for Oil and Gas Companies

Opponents say a program that gives valuable credits for making fuels from crops and dairy waste props up fossil fuels companies and pollutes nearby communities.

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Wood Pellet Mills in California: A Blessing or a Boondoggle?

Supporters say harvesting trees would thin out the state’s overgrown forests; critics say the wood pellets for heating produce more carbon than coal.

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Why Labor Is Losing Even as It Wins

Weak laws embolden combative employers, so even with big wins and all-time high support, union membership is not keeping up with workforce growth.

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The Rising Cost of the Oil Industry’s Slow Death

Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.

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California Plans to Eliminate a Healthful-Food Program That Has Served Both Farmers and Low-Income Residents

The state has matched fruit and vegetable purchases at farmers markets for low-income residents for seven years. That may soon end.

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The Landlord Behind Massive Los Angeles Eviction Has Spent More Than $1 Million on City Elections

Douglas Emmett Inc.’s surge in donations began after a city councilman opposed evictions.

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Turning 70, a Los Angeles Renter Prepares to Fight for His Home in Court

Mike Balog has resisted eviction from his rent-controlled apartment for nearly ten years. The strain is wearing him down, but he has nowhere to go.

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New Mexico May Finally Reform Oil and Gas Industry With Slate of Bills

Pennsylvania governor, who promised 30% renewable electricity by 2030, is suddenly silent.

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