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How Striking Hollywood Creators and Hotel Housekeepers Face the Same Obstacles

With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.

Capital & Main · Jul 20, 2023

Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms

Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.

Capital & Main · Jul 19, 2023

California Centers Respond to Climate Change With Social Change

Low-income neighborhoods are often dangerously hotter than wealthier areas. At “resilience hubs” there is shelter to survive, with programming for communities to thrive.

Capital & Main · Jul 18, 2023

The Truth About the Los Angeles Hotel Workers’ Strike

Despite recent wins, union members still can’t afford to live anywhere near where they work.

Capital & Main · Jul 11, 2023

Checked Out: How L.A. Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels

Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, some hotels may be violating that law by offering rooms to tourists.

Capital & Main · Jul 10, 2023

How the Oil and Gas Industry Is Quietly Thwarting Progress on the Climate Crisis, Yet Again 

From California to Pennsylvania to New Mexico and beyond, lobbyists and their lawmaker allies have used a variety of tactics, including alleged deception.

Capital & Main · Jul 8, 2023

California Bill Would Make Fast Food Corporations Liable for Labor Violations

Parent companies now shielded from exposure would be held accountable along with individual franchise owners.

Capital & Main · Jul 7, 2023

Only Five of California’s 120 Legislators Are Renters; They Have United to Fight for Tenants

The renters’ caucus is pushing to win both protections and political clout for the state’s 17 million renters.

Capital & Main · Jul 6, 2023

California’s Decoy Carbon Capture Bill Shut Down Following Capital & Main Report

State senator cites story, which revealed oil lobbyist’s misleading tactics.

Capital & Main · Jul 5, 2023

As the Country Burns, Where Are America’s Climate Patriots?

The climate crisis demands a left-right consensus that transcends politics.

Capital & Main · Jul 4, 2023