Kathleen Miles
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A group of faculty and students at a small college want to cap the president’s pay based on what the janitors earn. About a dozen faculty members and 30 students at S...
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Conservatives like to say that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” In other words, if an executive makes $20 million a year, his income will eventually trickle down in...
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California may soon require the highest minimum wage of any U.S. state. State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced a bill Monday to raise the state minimum wage ...
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California is dry as a bone, and the effects are like something out of an apocalyptic film. Cities are running out of water. Communities are fighting over what little w...
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Imagine being able to lease a 3D printer to build your entire house. The technology, called Contour Crafting, is already here and can build a 2,500-square-foot home in ...
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Los Angeles may soon require the highest minimum wage in America. In the coming weeks, three city council members plan to introduce a motion to raise the minimum wage t...
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Outsiders stereotype Los Angeles as car-addicted, polluted and lacking in public transit. But the City of Angels has undergone major changes over the past few decades. ...
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California has both the most ultra-wealthy individuals and the highest poverty rate of any U.S. state, according to recent reports. “This chasm is growing day by day,...
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Surrounded by about 100 police officers in riot gear and a helicopter circling above, more than 50 Walmart workers and supporters were arrested in downtown Los Angeles ...
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One Walmart worker says she’s had enough with the company’s “poverty wages” and is taking her grievances straight to the top — to President Barack Obama. Char...
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Hollywood studios appear to be missing the mark when it comes to representing one of their biggest consumers on the big screen. Latinos go to more movies than any other...
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LOS ANGELES — Transportation Security Administration officers are tasked with keeping America’s airline passengers safe. But TSA officers are often powerless in the...
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Demonstrators in cities across the U.S. took to the streets Tuesday to protest what they say is an “epidemic of police brutality.” Organizers say protests took plac...
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Los Angeles is considering banning the cultivation and sale of genetically modified organisms. If it does, the second-largest U.S. city would become the country’s lar...
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Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of Californians support legalizing, regulating and taxing recreational marijuana in the state, according to a Tulchin Research poll. The ...
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