Opinion
The federal minimum wage hasn’t been increased since 2009. Congress needs to act to raise it, and the next president should commit to signing a wage hike.
Sept. 2, 2024
A bill expanding the Child Tax Credit has bipartisan support. Senate Republicans stopped it because it might make ‘Biden look good.’
Aug. 4, 2024
World & Nation
A U.N. children’s agency report says 27% of children younger than 5, or 181 million, live in severe food poverty, many of them in Africa.
June 6, 2024
Two kids named Antonio grew up together in the streets of east Baltimore surrounded by poverty and gun violence.
May 7, 2024
California
Some nursing homes cry poverty while using complex financial arrangements to shield profits. How can California enforce new federal staffing requirements?
April 28, 2024
The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by the Russian government as citizens of Tajikistan.
March 25, 2024
Letters to the Editor
Metro needs to make its drivers safe, but the safety crisis on buses and trains won’t be fixed unless we eradicate poverty.
April 29, 2024
Hollywood took a chance on Cord Jefferson and a story that was not about one of perennial tropes of films about Black people. It paid off at the Oscars and the box office.
March 11, 2024
Business
Oxfam International says the world could have its first trillionaire within a decade. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison are all candidates.
Jan. 15, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
Latino Theater Company presents three new plays led by Latino and Asian actors that traverse an unknown void, a California monastery and East L.A.
Sept. 27, 2023