DARK SECRETS: 24 | Vintage Vibes

Michigan’s Gov. Whitmer Clears Path to Union for 35,000 Care Workers

With home care in the national spotlight, state declares Medicaid home care workers public employees and expands training.

Capital & Main · Oct 11, 2024

Seniors Move and Dance to Build Brain Health

In the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, classes at a community art center help to prevent and manage Parkinson’s and other age-related illnesses.

Capital & Main · Oct 10, 2024

Hotel Workers Knock on a Million Doors, Targeting Latinos, to Keep Arizona Blue for Kamala Harris

One in four voters is Latino in a critical state where Biden won but Trump now leads.

Capital & Main · Oct 9, 2024

California Voters Can Reverse State’s Decision to Cut Millions For Climate Disasters

New scorecard reveals extent of private equity’s role in fossil fuel finance.

Capital & Main · Oct 3, 2024

Long Road to Recovery for Low-Income Wildfire Survivors

Experts say insurance for renters and low-income homeowners could help ease the path to recovery.

Capital & Main · Oct 3, 2024

Progressives Weigh In on Kamala Harris’ Economic Proposals — and Share Some of Their Own

Experts say that policies such as higher taxes on the wealthy and expanded child care are both effective and popular.

Capital & Main · Oct 2, 2024

Newsom Vetoes Farmworker Heat Safety Bill as State Enforcement Has Fallen

The bill would have made it easier to file heat-related workers’ compensation. A Capital & Main investigation found field safety inspections fell 30% in seven years.

Capital & Main · Oct 1, 2024

California Home Care Workers Seek Greater Bargaining Power

To achieve consistent pay and benefits, IHSS workers seek to negotiate directly with the state instead of with 58 individual counties.

Capital & Main · Oct 1, 2024

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.

Capital & Main · Sep 30, 2024

California Cut $200 Million for Extreme Heat and Other Climate Disasters. Voters Can Reverse That.

Proposition 4 would fund infrastructure to relieve brutally hot days such as those that just scorched Los Angeles.

Capital & Main · Sep 27, 2024