Q and A: Here’s what you need to know about L.A.’s $1 billion budget shortfall
City Controller Kenneth Mejia warned that unless things change, cuts to city services and hiring freezes will continue.
RTA outlines ‘doomsday’ transit cuts if budget gap isn’t filled, including slashing bus and train lines
More than half of Chicago’s bus routes could be eliminated, at least parts of four “L” lines could be shut down and Metra weekday service would be slashed to once an hour under a ...
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Home Is Where the Unpaid Labor Is
Their work is what is sometimes called reproductive labor: work that does not create ... married the Trinidadian Marxist historian and activist C.L.R. James and lived with him in Trinidad before ...
Los Angeles construction costs jump 5.9%, another fire rebuilding hurdle
The cost of residential building in L.A. surged 44% over the last five years, the fourth-largest jump in California.
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Fire labor exploitation
What's next: The coalition has been working with L ... labor trafficking cases involved hundreds of workers recruited from India and the UAE to repair oil rigs damaged by Hurricane Katrina nearly ...
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Deserts for women’s health care services expand in rural NC counties
N.C. data show labor and delivery and other women’s services reduced or eliminated at rural hospitals, with negative health ...
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Research: How Gig Platforms Can Mitigate Racial Bias in Ratings
Online labor platforms increasingly rely on customer ratings to evaluate worker performance, yet these systems and their opaque algorithms can unintentionally introduce racial bias, impacting worker ...
Analysis: More than a dozen judges have said Trump and Co. probably broke the law
Several judges have halted Trump’s attempt to block automatic citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants and ...
What's happening with the Institute of Museum and Library Services after Trump's executive order
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been added to the list of government agencies targeted by President Donald Trump ...
Amazon sues Consumer Product Safety Commission over recall order for hazardous products
The agency had ordered Amazon to notify the buyers of over 400,000 recalled items and to give refunds in exchange for proof ...
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Venezuelans deported to brutal El Salvador prison weren’t gang members, lawyers say
The White House confirmed 238 Venezuelans were deported and flown to El Salvador, but is refusing to answer detailed ...
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L.A. Council proposes budget reform advisory board
A Los Angeles faces a nearly $1 billion gap in the next fiscal year, six City Council members Friday proposed the formation ...