Articles by Jeanne Kuang

October 2024

How Inflation Concerns Could Doom California’s Proposition to Increase Minimum Wage

September 2024

California Lawmakers Want to Ban Anti-Union Meetings at Work, but Will Newsom Go Along?

August 2024

California Tried to Make Google Pay News Outlets. The Company Cut a Deal That Includes Funding AI

Californians Will Vote on a $18 Minimum Wage. Workers Already Want $25 and More

March 2024

Which Fast Food Workers Will Get Paid More in California?

California Is Clearing Criminal Records — Including Violent Crimes — to Offer Second Chances

California’s Fast Food Workers Are Getting a Raise. But the Labor-Industry Truce Is Fraying

February 2024

Business, Labor Fight Over California Law Few Know About

January 2024

California Gave Fast Food Workers a Seat at the Table. What Comes Next?

Supreme Court Will Hear Case About Homeless Encampments, With Huge Implications for California

December 2023

Domestic Violence Shelters, a Guardrail Against Homelessness, Face Steep Funding Cuts

California’s Food Insecurity Rises as Pandemic Aid Ends

These Californians Live in Affordable Housing. Why Did Their Rent Skyrocket?

November 2023

Across California, Eviction Cases Have Returned to — or Surpassed — Pre-Pandemic Levels

October 2023

Why Tiny Homes Will Remain Part of California’s Homelessness Equation for Years

September 2023

To Sweep Homeless Camps, California Cities Say They Offer Shelter. What That Really Means Is Up for Debate

August 2023

Families Have High Hopes for Gavin Newsom’s CARE Courts. Providers Want to Lower Expectations

June 2023

Is California Using an Old Labor Board to Get Around a Fast Food Industry Referendum?

California Child Care Providers Demand Raises From Gov. Newsom as Budget Deadline Looms

‘Down to Our Last Dimes’: State Workers Say California Paychecks No Longer Cover the Bills

Welfare: As US Tightens Work Rules, California Considers Loosening Them

February 2023

‘No Light at the Other End’: Impending Loss of Pandemic CalFresh Boosts Could Trigger Hunger Spike

January 2023

Thieves Drain Millions Off CalFresh and CalWORKs Recipients’ Cards, Families Wait and Taxpayers Pay

August 2022

California Passes Bill Giving Fast Food Workers Bargaining Power

California’s Fast Food Bill Could Link Chains to Wage Theft and Other Workplace Violations

July 2022

California Counties Siphon Social Security Benefits From Some Foster Kids

May 2022

California Lawmakers Want to Chop Late Fees That Add Hundreds of Dollars to Traffic Tickets

April 2022

Advocates Say California Should Send $2,000 Per Child to Poorest Families

California Senator Proposes Checks for Low-Income, Homeless High School Seniors