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California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Hike Cost the State 18,000 Jobs. That Shouldn't Surprise Anyone.

Lawmakers made an exception for smaller restaurant chains, implicitly acknowledging that the law would come with costs.

Reason · Oct 11, 2025

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

Drinking water at 1 in 4 California child-care centers tests dangerously high for lead

In test results that suggest thousands of California infants, toddlers and children continue to be exposed to brain-damaging lead, data released by the state Department of Social Services has revealed that 1 in 4 of the state's child-care centers has dangerously high levels of the metal in their drinking water.

Los Angeles Times · May 18, 2023

Democrats seek to end California's drought of Black congressmen

California gave the nation its first Black vice president. But no part of the state has sent a Black man to Congress in more than 20 years.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 4, 2022

Plastics industry, facing crackdown, targets Democrats with mailers deemed deceptive

LOS ANGELES — Cheryl Auger was stunned this month when one of her Pasadena neighbors and friends received a flyer in the mail featuring her state assemblyman, with a line stating, “Higher taxes on plastic products will enrich corporate interests with no guarantee of reducing plastic waste.”

Los Angeles Times · May 24, 2022