Capital & Main - Investigating Power & Politics
网页Capital & Main - Investigating Power & Politics is an award-winning online publication that reports from California on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time.
About Capital & Main
网页2024年9月27日 · Capital & Main has had stories co-published in more than 30 media outlets, from The Atlantic, Time, Reuters, The Guardian and Fast Company to The American Prospect, Grist, Slate and the Daily Beast.Working with top writers, editors and visual artists, we cover income inequality, climate change, the green economy, housing, health care, public education, immigration, race, and criminal justice.
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网页2024年10月3日 · California Inmates Say They Urgently Need Workplace Heat Standards — but the State Has Delayed Adopting Them. 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.
Michigan’s Gov. Whitmer Clears Path to Union for 35,000 Care …
网页21 小时之前 · Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law two bills Tuesday that clear a path for the state’s home care workers to organize a statewide union of more than 35,000 workers as well as standardize care and training.. Public Act 145 reinstates workers in Michigan’s Home Help Program as state employees. The change enables the workers, who are paid through Medicaid and often care for family ...
Striking Back Series
网页2024年9月2日 · STRIKING BACK: Can American Workers Disrupt Inequality? This two-year series explores how American workers across political, geographic and racial lines
Here Are Our Most-Read Stories of 2021 - capitalandmain.com
网页2021年12月31日 · If 2021 was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Capital & Main readers were also hungry for other stories. Our most-read articles of the past 12 months include examinations of everything from California’s water shortage to Kaiser Permanente’s denial of adequate mental health care to USC’s hiring of officers fired by the LAPD.
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网页Peter Hong. Editor-in-Chief. Hong served for 15 years as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where he covered numerous beats for the Metro and Business sections, as well as reporting from Washington, D.C., Iraq, Taiwan and various U.S. states.He produced major investigative pieces on Los Angeles city and county government, and wrote news, analytical and feature stories on race and culture ...
Ten Capital & Main Stories That Had an Impact in 2021
网页2021年12月29日 · The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Last Stand in California Oil Country. Aaron Cantú obtained documents showing that a fund used by oil companies to mitigate their pollution emissions in the San Joaquin Valley wasn’t benefitting the people most affected by the pollution. In public comments and legal filings, the Center for Biological Diversity cited our story in their effort to stop the issuance ...
CLASS WAR SERIES
网页2024年3月8日 · Capital & Main reports on how public schools are divided by culture wars over race, history and gender identity. Read stories from California and Texas about book bans, school board elections and legal battles.
This Union Leader Is the Kind of Voter Who Could Swing the …
网页5 天之前 · Ryan Sanders is the kind of voter whose support may ultimately decide the presidential race.A resident of Erie County in Pennsylvania, Sanders describes himself as “middle of the road”: He leans conservative, but he also said he tends to oscillate between either side of the center.In his early 40s, he’s young, like many swing voters.And above all, he said he wants a presidential ...