Articles by Lauren Hepler

March 2025

California Considers More Homeless Shelter Oversight After CalMatters Investigation

December 2024

California’s Employment Safety Net Is Still Broken. Will Anyone Fix It?

July 2024

California Passed a Law to Fix Unsafe Homeless Shelters. Cities and Counties Are Ignoring It

May 2023

‘I’m a Hostage’: Why California’s COVID Unemployment Mess Isn’t Over Yet

March 2021

Is California Blowing It on Unemployment Reform?

Disneyland, Stadiums Get Green Light to Start Reopening April 1

Bidding Wars and Overblown Fears: The Curious Case of the California Exodus

February 2021

Economy Czar Dee Dee Myers on Vaccines, Reopening and California’s ‘Overblown’ Exodus

January 2021

‘Too Little, Too Late’: California Small Businesses Chase COVID-19 Relief

November 2020

California Offered a Lifeline When Their Hours Were Cut — Then Payments Froze

October 2020

Lawsuits and Labor Backlash: Prop. 22’s Cutthroat Final Days

What No Trump Stimulus Means for California Schools, Unemployment and More

What to Know About Gig Worker Pay Before Voting on Prop. 22

September 2020

CALIFORNIA EXODUS: An Online Industry Seizes COVID-19 to Sell the Red State Dream

California’s Coronavirus Stimulus Was a Bust … What Now?

August 2020

Uber, Lyft and Why California’s War Over Gig Work Is Just Beginning

California Democrats Divided Over COVID-19 Stimulus, Millionaire Tax to Fund Economic Recovery

July 2020

After More Coronavirus Closures, How Deep Will California’s Recession Go?

Six Curious Takeaways From California’s PPP Loans

Indoor Restaurants Shut Down in 72% of California for Three Weeks