As a teenager in Southern California, Taylor Shupe confidently declared plans to one day lead a global company, an ambition that would surely bring him to China. By the time […]
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Back to news homeCan the United Farm Workers of California Rise Again?
While the impact of the law remains unclear, it has buoyed the spirits of some farmworkers.Asuncion Ponce started harvesting grapes along the rolling green hills of the Central Valley in […]
This Is What It Looks Like to Try to Count America’s Homeless Population
Jobs in the Delta are scarce, government services are limited and the nonprofit infrastructure is thin, Ms. Maharrey said. The burden of helping the desperate falls largely to churches, neighbors […]
California Voters to Decide on Regulating Fast-Food Industry
LOS ANGELES — A California law creating a council with broad authority to set wages and improve the working conditions of fast-food employees has been halted after restaurant and trade groups submitted enough signatures […]
Facebook’s Bridge to Nowhere
Facebook’s departure was a slow fade, but its last gasp came in May 2021, when Ms. Bowen, who had led the project since 2017, left the company. In a farewell […]
How a Texas Border City Is Shaping the Future of Global Trade
The teeming warehouses carved into the desert surrounding Laredo, Texas, attest to an explosion of trade between the United States and Mexico.On a recent morning, 55-gallon drums full of chemicals […]
Why Are Energy Prices So High? Some Experts Blame Deregulation.
New transmission lines in deregulated markets often get limited review by state or federal officials, which means they are less likely to be rejected on the grounds that they are […]
California Panel Sizes Up Reparations for Black Citizens
The state and local efforts have faced opposition over the potentially steep cost to taxpayers and, in one case, derided as an ill-conceived campaign to impose an “era of social […]
Electric Vehicles Start to Enter the Car-Buying Mainstream
Buyers of battery-powered cars are concerned about climate change, but lower costs are also a powerful attraction, according to more than 3,000 respondents to a request for stories about electric […]
‘No Jobs Available’: The Feast or Famine Careers of America’s Port Drivers.
Consumer demand has cooled, leaving fewer containers to pick up on the West Coast. For Marshawn Jackson, a truck driver paid by the delivery, that means a hard scrabble to […]