Federal funds cover more than 60% of California’s low-income health insurance plan. Losing even part of that money could result in cutbacks on care for kids or state tax hikes.

Advocates see these laws as a critical shield for immigrant communities, but Trump’s team is devising ways to bypass them.

In Kansas, Mississippi and other states, tax cuts for the wealthy could bring devastating reductions to education, health and other vital programs. As Florida reels amid climate change, Trump asks Big ...

Rev. Jim Conn is the founding minister of the Church in Ocean Park and served on the Santa Monica City Council and as that city's mayor. He helped found Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, ...

The U.S. prison population has grown more than 700 percent between 1970 and 2009. We’re locking people up left and right, including thousands of non-violent immigrants... Inequality. You’re probably ...

Peter Dreier is a professor of politics and founding chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. He is coauthor of The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City ...

Photojournalist Ted Soqui’s visual recap of the year in Los Angeles.

Home-Care Workers to Sacramento: Let’s Get Healthy! Over 400,000 elderly and disabled California residents depend on the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program to keep them living safely and ...

Alex Demyanenko is the producer of “Bastards of the Party” a feature documentary about the history of gangs in L.A. that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on HBO. The film was the first ...

Bill Raden has reported on politics and the arts from both coasts since getting his start at KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles. Since joining Capital & Main in 2012, his reporting on California ...