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News
September 20, 2012
The Villaraigosa Hangover
Thanks to the mayor's $700 million union deal, L.A. faces a $216 million deficit next year. Here's what happened
Blogs
August 1, 2012
Los Angeles Ranks High Among Cities With Young Adults Slacking at Home
Now we understand why so many young Angelenos can afford iPhones, glasses without lenses and pool parties at the Standard hotel rooftop. Turns out nearly a third of you are living at home with mommy and daddy. A new study about young adults (those 20-34) living with their parents during this Great ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2012
UCLA Business School Wants to Privatize, Forgo Tax Dollars
As the UC and Cal State systems struggle with budget cuts and increasingly unhappy and unruly student bodies, one UCLA school is bucking the trend and actually inviting more cuts. In fact, UCLA's Anderson School of Management wants zero tax dollars: It's asking to be cut off from the system almost ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
Waning Support for Jerry Brown Initiative to Raise Taxes
Gov. Jerry Brown's ingenious and inventive plan for California's budget woes is to raise taxes. He wants your support for an initiative that would increase taxes on the mildly rich and on retail items. He's bringing a ballot initiative to you, but the support you've shown for this appears to be wa ... More >>
News
November 3, 2011
Skid Row vs. Gensler
Who should get $1 million in poverty funds, the rich or the poor?
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Nearly Half of All Young Americans, 6 Million Californians, Officially Living in Poverty
So the Great Recession has been over for nearly two years, huh? The latest U.S. Census data indicates the United States has more people living in poverty than, oh, ever. Well, almost ever. The 46.2 million of Americans below the line are as many as have been recorded in the 52 years governme ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2011
Battle For Brooklyn: Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley's Documentary Has Echoes in L.A.'s Football Stadium Controversy
Construction begins on the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn There's a moment towards the end of Battle for Brooklyn when Prospect Heights resident Daniel Goldstein peers through a fence at a construction site teeming with workers and cranes. The area was recently home to dozens of small bus ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
'No Recovery in Sight,' Says UCLA Anderson Forecast
Adam TinworthShop for America.Things were looking up there for a second, right? Unemployment was creeping down, people were starting buy houses again, you got the new iPhone. And then, boom: Housing prices went toilet-bound again, unemployment barely budged, and the stock market is experie ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2011
Dining Below the Line: Could You Eat on $1.50 a Day?
Just_[von]Bernard/FlickrHow about $1.50 for five whole days? Charity group Global Poverty Project, an international non-profit organization campaigning to end Extreme Poverty, asks you to find out as part of their Live Below the Line campaign. Through this initiative they hope to help America ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2010
One Out Of Five In California Unemployed, According To '60 Minutes'
CBS'60 Minites' asks how many in this room full of jobless folks have degrees.In a Debbie Downer of a story about California's jobless masses (yeah, we heard, the recession is over), CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday dropped this bomb: Twenty-two percent -- more than one out of every five people -- ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2010
Do You Drink Up When The Economy Is Down? Booze And Bad Times Go Hand-In-Hand (Sort Of)
mydrunkbuddy.comDo you drink up when the economy is down?Got the Great Recession blues? Maybe you could use a drink? A single malt perhaps? No, you're a Sparks gal, right? You're not alone. Drinking is at a 25-year-high, even though spending on alcohol has declined sightly, according the Cal ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2010
Does Your Wallet Feel Empty? You're Not Alone: Nine In 10 Californians Say The Economy Is Bad
When headlines beamed last month that the Great Recession was not only over, but that it had taken its last breath in June, 2009, did you scratch your head too? We thought so. If the recession is over, why does it feel worse now than when it started in 2007 and dive bombed in 2008? A new Fie ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2010
Frat Boys Rejoice: California Legalizes Free Alcohol Samples At Grocery Stores
Ah, the California legislature. It can't balance a budget to save the state's life. Nineteen million plastic bags in landfills, waterways and gutters each year? No prob for this bunch. And one-third of all bills in Sacramento have special-interest sponsors and are twice as likely to pass as t ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2010
Blue Skies Forecast For L.A. Trade
Port of Los Angeles.2008 and 2009 were described as "dismal years" for international trade at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. But 2010 and 2011 are looking up, according to a report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation.
Calendar
March 11, 2010
Influence
Port of Los Angeles.2008 and 2009 were described as "dismal years" for international trade at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. But 2010 and 2011 are looking up, according to a report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation.
Blogs
February 10, 2010
Number Of Illegal Immigrants Decreased By One Million Since 2007
The number of illegal immigrants in the United States was down about 800,000 last year compared to 2008, reportedly as a result of the recession and fewer job opportunities. The decrease from 11.6 million undocumented workers in 2008 to 10.8 million in 2009 was reported by the U.S. Department ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2010
Council Committee Recommends Cuts To Police, Fire Departments
Getting down to serious business, the Los Angeles City Council's Budget and Finance Committee on Monday recommended that cuts be made to the police and fire department -- sacred cows in city budgeting -- as well as to council offices, including the mayor's. The city is operating $208.5 milli ... More >>
News
June 22, 2006
Democratic Elites Rethink
While voters stay away from the polls
News
March 16, 2006
Not So Fast, Antonio
L.A.�s role in farm deal contains a shovel full of legal questions
News
June 2, 2005
The French Revolt
Rejection of a corporate Europe
News
April 28, 2005
Fighting High Rents
In L.A.? Good Luck.
News
September 25, 2003
Welcome to the Concrete Jungle
John Powers in the land of no culture, surreal Canc�n
News
November 28, 2002
USA, Inc.
Bush�s privatization plan is a new spoils system for corporations and the GOP
News
September 19, 2002
Fox in the Hen House
A progressive for L.A.�s redevelopment agency
News
February 28, 2002
Letters
A progressive for L.A.�s redevelopment agency
News
February 7, 2002
Davos, American Style
The state of global protest
News
February 7, 2002
Hitting the Streets
The top six demands of anti-globalization protesters
News
November 22, 2001
Back to Business
A new war gives new urgency to the globalization debate
News
September 27, 2001
The Next Cold War
On the need to create a diplomatic, economic, political, cultural � and military � approach
News
September 27, 2001
Bad Timing
Globalization meetings, protests called off in Washington
News
August 16, 2001
Bicoastal
Middle-classlessness, viewed from L.A. and D.C.
News
July 19, 2001
Seeds of Wrath
Silencing debate on biotech foods
News
May 10, 2001
Notes From the Front
The Wall defines two Americas in Quebec
News
November 23, 2000
Where Money Didn�t Talk
In Santa Monica at least, the good guys won
News
October 26, 2000
Global Stench
Come to Tijuana to experience globalization
News
October 19, 2000
Masters of Deceit
Behind Santa Monica�s breathtakingly bogus living-wage initiative
News
September 7, 2000
Good vs. Evil
The truth about living wages in Santa Monica
News
July 13, 2000
Can Biology End World Hunger?
The truth about living wages in Santa Monica
News
June 8, 2000
Clinton's Wedge
China cracks the Democrats
News
June 1, 2000
Right vs. Might
Exposing the bad guys in Santa Monica�s living-wage war
News
April 27, 2000
Less Bank � More World
First Seattle, then A 16. Now it�s time to ask not where � but what?
News
April 27, 2000
D.C. Diary
Downs and ups of a protest
News
April 13, 2000
And Stay Out
Jonathan Club turns away Santa Monica officials
News
April 6, 2000
Living Hell
Santa Monica�s powerful business community is trying to beat workers on fair-wage issue
News
March 30, 2000
After Seattle
Free-trade protests coming soon to a city near you
News
December 2, 1999
Overriding Democracy
Bernie Sanders on the WTO, the IMF and the democratic process
News
December 2, 1999
Reinventing the World
Seattle summit brings 134 governments and tens of thousands of protesters together � to disagree on the rules of the global economy
News
September 16, 1999
Raising Santa Monica
Groundbreaking plan would double low-wage pay
News
July 29, 1999
No Welfare for Lockheed or Maximus
Private firms derailed in bid to take over county aid program
News
March 25, 1999
Where's the Left?
American liberalism at century's end
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