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In 2005, the Los Angeles Urban League took a comprehensive look at the city’s African-American population and found that Blacks here “ranked at the bottom of virtually every major index measuring equality in the areas of health, safety, education, economics, housing, and civic engagement.” Concluding that existing programs “were simply not working,” the Urban League Read More →
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Here we go again. Gas prices are skyrocketing, presumably because of the unrest in the Middle East. (Though some believe the seasonal price gouging is just a ruse to further line the pockets of oil companies and their stockholders, but we digress.) If you’re interested in doubling-down on fossil fuel consumption, why not just drive Read More →
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By Hilda Solis / U.S. Labor Secretary I was “raised union.” My mother, who immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua, worked the 3 p.m. to midnight shift at a toy factory after the birth of my younger twin sisters. She was a member of the United Rubber Workers, which later merged with the Steelworkers Read More →
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We’ve already brought you some depressing news today about how Californians see the state of the state. Also today, the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State L.A. has released its annual “State of the City” report. (PDF here) According to the press release: “This annual enterprise of the PBI features articles from Read More →
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That sunny California optimism is nowhere to be found in a new Field Poll, which finds residents of the Golden State down in the dumps about our economic woes. According to a Sacramento Bee story about the poll, “Californians are profoundly, even historically, pessimistic about the state’s economy, their personal finances and job opportunites and have Read More →
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California’s jobless rate went up again in August. According to figures released today by the state’s Employment Development Department, the rate is now 12.4%, rising one-tenth of a percent over July. Year-to-year, the figure grew by four-tenths of a percent. California’s jobless rate dwarfs the national rate, which was 9.6% in August. The rate in Read More →
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According to a new report by the Center for Responsible lending, 48% of more than a million foreclosures studied by the Center were owned by Latinos. Whites owned 35% of foreclosures, 8% were owned by African Americans and 6% by Asians. So what’s to account for the disparity in race? The Center found that higher Read More →
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