Economic Inequality

ValleyBuild is a workforce development program that helps applicants into apprenticeships for construction trades.

President-elect Donald Trump’s housing policy for his second term is vague at best. But based on available information, many California housing experts are not optimistic about what it could mean for the state’s crisis.

The University of California anticipates more than a $500 million budget gap next summer, so It’s increasing tuition by at least $3,402 for new nonresident students next fall. Meanwhile, the system is planning billions in construction projects.

California has one of the lowest homeownership rates in the nation. Similar to other economic indices, it also includes a strong racial component that affects state's generational wealth gap.

California’s official unemployment rate remained unchanged in September at 5.3%. That doesn’t sound alarming, unless one dives more deeply into the data.

Proposition 32 would increase the statewide minimum wage to $18, and has the potential to change lives for California's working-class communities, a longtime laborer says.

Riverside County's First District is trying to maintain its rural atmosphere while getting street lights, paved streets and sidewalks.

School officials in California communities with fewer resources and greater campus infrastructure needs are reluctantly embracing Proposition 2 on the November ballot. As written, the measure favors richer districts, but the needs are too great for district leaders to oppose it.

The California Legislative Black Caucus is taking heat for three reparations bills one of their members floated but Gov. Gavin Newsom did not sign. Newsom deserves some of that ire, too.

Under then-President Donald Trump a popular federal income tax deduction was capped at $10,000 a year, costing Californians thousands of dollars. Now he's ready to cut the cap.