Homelessness

Homelessness continues to soar, jumping 9% in L.A. County, 10% in the city

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 07: Nathaniel Prenters, 44, gathers his belongings before clean-up by Los Angeles City sanitation of an encampment along 200 block of S. Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Efforts to house people have failed to stem the growth of street encampments, as reflected in the annual point-in-time count released by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

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California reparations

FILE - Bishop Henry C. Williams, of Oakland, testifies during the Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Williams said he hopes to build a Black Wall Street in Oakland with all Black-owned businesses. California's first-in-the-nation reparations task force will sign off Saturday, May 5, 2023, on key recommendations for how the state should apologize and atone for decades of discriminatory policies against descendants of U.S. chattel slavery. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP, File)

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Sending the final reparations report to the governor and lawmakers puts them under political pressure to decide how the state should atone for slavery.

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Hotel Worker Strike

Los Angeles, CA - Hotel workers and union organizers create strike signs at Unite Here Local 11 headquarters in Los Angeles. The union is planning a strike that could be the largest hotel worker strike in modern U.S. history. The strike could start as early as the Fourth of July weekend. Los Angeles on Thursday, June 29, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Unionized hotel workers reach deal with biggest employer on eve of July 4 weekend and planned strike

Los Angeles, CA - May 07: The L.A. Grand in downtown LA is one of several hotels Mayor Karen Bass' team is using as interim homeless housing on Sunday, May 7, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Looming strike poses challenge for Mayor Karen Bass at homeless housing hotel

Affirmative action

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: Kashish Bastola, a rising sophomore at Harvard University, hugs Nahla Owens, also a Harvard University student, outside of the Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday, June 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. In a 6-3 vote, Supreme Court Justices ruled that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional, setting precedent for affirmative action in other universities and colleges. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

Supreme Court strikes down race-based affirmative action in college admissions

At the same time, the court appears to have offered a roadmap of sorts for schools to consider factors that might be related to race, such as experiences of discrimination.

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BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - FEBRUARY 25: Sister Norma Pimentel, Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley greets a group of some 25 asylum seekers at a bus station after they were allowed to cross from a migrant camp in Mexico into the United States on February 25, 2021 in Brownsville, Texas. The group was the first to officially cross into south Texas as part of the unwinding of the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols, (MPP), also known as the 'Remain in Mexico' immigration policy. Many of the asylum seekers had been waiting in the squalid camp alongside the Rio Grande in Matamoros for more than a year. After crossing the border they were processed by U.S. immigration authorities, and then brought to the bus station for onward travel to destinations around the U.S. while awaiting their immigration court cases. Last week the first group of 25 MPP immigrants entered from Tijuana into San Ysidro, California. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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Stunning coastal route

A Surfliner train by Amtrak travels along the collapsing bluffs in Del Mar.

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 27: UCLA plans to expand to downtown LA with the purchase of the historic Trust Building on Spring Street, using it as a satellite campus to help open more seats at the nation's most applied-to university. The nearly century-old building features an Art Deco tower and marble, brass and black walnut finishes. It has been mostly vacant the last two decades is located at 433 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - DECEMBER 17, 2022 - Avieira evans, of Health Right 360, passes out Narcan at UN Plaza in San Francisco, California on December 17, 2022. Dozens of people consume fentanyl, meth and other illegal substances in public near the site of a recently closed safe consumption site. (Josh Edelson/for the Times)

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HEMET, CAL;IF. - SEP. 9, 2022. Firefighters cut a fire linein thick brush in the burn zone of the. Fairview fire near Hemet on Friday, Sep. 9, 2022. Light rain and higher humidity gave firefighters a chance to get more containment around the fire, which has burned about 28,000 aces in and around the San Bernardino National Forest. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Hollywood, CA - June 29: Actress and activist Jane Fonda speaks during a "Striking 9 to 5" picket line in front of Netflix headquarters, in Hollywood, CA, Thursday, June 29, 2023. Fonda was joined by her 1980 workplace comedy film co-star Lily Tomlin, as well as screenwriter Patricia Resnick, and all spoke in support of writers and their 59th day of striking. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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