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Do police treat Black Lives Matter and ‘White Lives Matter’ differently?
by Sam Levin When Justice Medina left a Black Lives Matter protest in California last Wednesday, police followed him. At around 8pm, roughly a mile away from the protest in downtown Fresno, officers stopped the 20-year-old, who was in a … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Black Lives Matter, California, police, protest, race
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Here’s How The Nation’s Two Largest States Plan To Crack Down On Predatory Lending
By Alan Pyke View image | gettyimages.com Predatory lenders thrive in Texas, where regulations are scarce on stores that offer payday advance loans and allow borrowers to put their cars up as collateral for high-cost, short-term credit. But a trio … Continue reading
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Tagged business, California, economy, money, Payday loan, predatory lending, Texas
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Documentary Blows Open Serial Killer’s 25-Year Spree of Killing Black Women and a Shocking Lack of Interest in Catching Him
By Kali Holloway By the mid-1980s, the Los Angeles Police Department knew there was a prolific serial killer operating in the South Central section of the city. His victims, like most of the residents of the area, were overwhelmingly African … Continue reading
Could Big Batteries Be Big Business In California?
By Richard Harris The California Public Utilities Commission has called on utilities and private companies to install about $5 billion worth of batteries and other forms of energy storage to help the state power grid cope with the erratic power … Continue reading
Temporary Work, Lasting Harm
By Michael Grabell, Olga Pierce, and Jeff Larson This was it, he told his brother Jojo. He would finally be able to pay his mother back for the fender bender, buy some new shoes and, if things went well, maybe … Continue reading
Amid Fields Of Plenty, A Farmworker’s Wife Struggles To Feed Her Family
By Sasha Khokha California’s San Joaquin Valley is one of the most productive farm regions in the world. But many farmworkers struggle to feed their families fresh and healthy food because they can’t afford to buy the produce that grows … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Farmworker, food, food banks, food insecurity, food pantry
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How Wall Street Power Brokers Are Designing the Future of Public Education as a Money-Making Machine
By Anna Simonton Given that Arthur Rock has a net worth of $1 billion, lives in California and spends his time heaping money on tech startups (with the mantra, “Get in, get out,” as his guide), a local school board … Continue reading
50 Days Without Food: The California Prison Hunger Strike Explained
By Maggie Caldwell and Josh Harkinson Monday marked the 50th day of a massive hunger strike in California prisons. The strike initially involved some 30,000 fasting inmates; some 42 of them are still refusing to eat, putting themselves at extremely … Continue reading
California to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners
By Al Jazeera and The Associated Press A federal judge has approved a request from California and federal officials to force-feed inmates participating in an ongoing hunger strike now entering its seventh week if necessary. The process, which prison officials … Continue reading
Sequestration Kicks More Than 57,000 Children Out Of Head Start
By Bryce Covert Head Start programs will eliminate services for 57,265 children in the coming school year thanks to sequestration’s automatic, across-the-board spending cuts, according to new government data collected from individual programs. California, Texas, and New York will cut the … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic term, California, children, education, Head Start Program, New York, politics, Puerto Rico, Sequestration, Texas
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