As climate change continues making wildfires worse, how do we learn to live with fire?
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Posted inRehabilitation
Our Drug Rehab Investigation Led to 96 Convictions and Millions in Restitution
The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN found rampant fraud in California’s taxpayer-funded rehab system.
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Fighting Fire With Fire
As climate change continues making wildfires worse, how do we learn to live with fire?
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Posted inAll Work. No Pay.
Salvation Army faces lawsuit over labor violations
The venerated charity is one of the largest providers of drug rehab in the United States. Now former participants are demanding wages for uncompensated “work therapy” at thrift stores.
Posted inCOVID-19
Charging COVID-19 failures, California lawmaker seeks to crack down on fast food chains
The new legislation charges that the industry has flouted rules designed to keep workers safe during the pandemic.
Posted inAccountability
A lesson from the last recession becomes California law
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill intended to prevent corporate buyers from bulk-purchasing foreclosed homes, as happened in the last recession.
Posted inWorked Over
Elderly often face neglect in California care homes that exploit workers
Rat bites, bedsores and other injuries plague residents in many homes cited for labor violations.
Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line
Judge orders government to release immigrant kids from troubled shelter
A federal judge rules that the government should remove immigrant kids from a troubled Texas facility and stop drugging them without consent.
Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line
‘We are a country of laws’: Judge orders families reunited
“This situation has reached a crisis level,” U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw writes in his emergency order.
Posted inImmigration, The Trump Era
Immigrant families face new threat to children’s health: Uncertainty
A year later, the legacy of California’s first immigration raid under Trump still ripples through the local school and within families as well.