Across California, clergy leaders are accompanying migrants at their asylum hearings. ‘We’re there trying to appeal to a higher authority than ICE,’ one pastor said.
The L.A. Times equity reporting initiative, funded by the James Irvine Foundation, explores the challenges facing low-income workers and the efforts being made to address California’s economic divide.
Across California, clergy leaders are accompanying migrants at their asylum hearings. ‘We’re there trying to appeal to a higher authority than ICE,’ one pastor said.
Alarm spread through California agricultural centers Tuesday as panicked workers reported that federal immigration authorities were showing up at farm fields and packinghouses from the Central Coast to the San Joaquin Valley.
President Trump has announced his intention to end the Digital Equity Act, a federal grant program meant to help bridge the digital divide. The word ‘equity’ may have put it in his crosshairs.
Dr. Maher Abdallah credited a series of miracles for limiting the scope of devastation from last Saturday’s bomb attack, noting no staff or patients were on site at the time and the clinic’s in vitro fertilization lab remained intact.
A decade ago, the posh resort communities of the Coachella Valley produced 38 units of affordable housing a year. Today, thousands of affordable units are planned or under construction in all nine desert cities. So what’s going right?
In Monterey County, growers are building lodging for thousands of guest workers coming in on H-2A visas. Some advocates say it is an injustice for the farmworkers who’ve lived here for years, many in substandard housing.
The Bureau of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, created in November 2022, was supposed to spearhead recruitment of underrepresented groups, including women, who were less than 4% of firefighters at the time.
L.A. Community College District is giving hundreds of low-income students $1,000 a month in unrestricted income in hopes of keeping them enrolled and helping deliver a more diverse and multilingual healthcare workforce.
Even in liberal-leaning California, undocumented immigrants who have worked here for decades are making plans to leave, choosing to depart on their own terms rather than risk being forced out with nothing.