California Game Changers: Leveling the Field in Immigration Court
Co-published by International Business Times More than 600,000 immigrants are battling deportation or fighting for asylum in American immigration courts -- nearly 20 percent of them live in California....
View ArticleCalifornia Game Changers: Moving the Needle on Drug Reform
Co-published by International Business Times Since 2000 the number of California’s drug-induced deaths has doubled. These aren’t suicides. The post California Game Changers: Moving the Needle on Drug...
View ArticleCalifornia Game Changers: Can We Ban Fracking?
Co-published by International Business Times Environmentalists and community activists have long lobbied for a statewide ban on fracking. “Given what we know about fracking’s dangers, [banning it] is...
View ArticleCalifornia Game Changers: Making College Free Again
Co-published by International Business Times Since 2004, California’s public university students have collectively racked up student debt in excess of $12 billion. There was a time when tuition-free...
View ArticleCalifornia Game Changers: Reaffirming Affirmative Action
Co-published by International Business Times Of all the national trendsetting ballot measures decided by California voters in the last generation, perhaps none was more divisive than Proposition 209....
View ArticleCalifornia Game Changers: Fixing Proposition 13’s Legacy
Co-published by International Business Times Proposition 13's backers have fended off legal challenges and watched as many efforts to amend it in Sacramento fizzled. What they haven't faced is a...
View ArticleCalifornia Game Changers: Reimagining Job Benefits in a Gig World
Co-published by International Business Times “I think I have economic PTSD,” says Sami Abdou. With almost no savings or retirement account, the 32-year-old TV director is not even close to being able...
View ArticleCalifornia Game Changers: Preserve the Affordable Housing We Have
Co-published by International Business Times In California's recent legislative “grand compromise” of an affordable housing package, developers got subsidies for building and a streamlined path to...
View ArticleCalifornia Game Changers: Birthing a Single-Payer Health Care System
Co-published by International Business Times There’s little economic reason why California couldn’t go it alone with its own single-payer health insurance -- and a host of reasons why it should. The...
View ArticleA Nurse Speaks Out for Single-Payer Health Care
Melissa Johnson-Camacho, an oncology nurse, speaks out in favor of a single-payer health-care system for California, explaining how the experience of caring for a young woman riddled with metastasized...
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