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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – As federally-imposed work requirements take effect for food benefits recipients, roughly 47,000 people stand to lose access to CalFresh starting this month.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - San Francisco Bay Area voters on Nov. 3 will decide on Measure RTM, a new sales tax aimed to keep BART and other public transit systems afloat after years of what's described as inadequate post-pandemic financing.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Urgent budget cuts are needed to keep the Los Angeles Unified School District from insolvency as enrollment falls, according to a crisis team.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Recent severe weather brought by Post-Tropical Cyclone Rachel has left a trail of millions of dollars of infrastructure damage and property destruction across Southern California.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A potentially historic winter of rain and mountain snow is about to descend upon the American West, potentially leaving a trail of natural disasters in its wake.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – California’s taxpayers might have to pay $15.4 billion by 2033 and $56 billion by 2100 to fight the effects of climate change, a California Department of Transportation report states .
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — A woman who was ejected from a Los Angeles City Council meeting for speaking one of two words banned by a new council policy has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, arguing that her First Amendment right to free speech was abridged.
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Collective debt and collective guilt? The county’s decision to begin meetings by acknowledging a debt to “exploited labor” follows well documented practice of “land acknowledgments.”
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Economists told The Center Square this week that California’s billionaire tax proposal could undermine the economy, impacting both the income taxpayers can make and reducing the state’s tax base by as much as $5 billion to $7 billion.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The California State Teachers Retirement System announced that the teachers retirement fund reached $415.4 billion, a valuation that some economists said is the result of a bull market.
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