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Growing socialist party hosts event in Tucson to pitch Arizona’s independent, discontented voters

Leveling scathing criticisms at the country’s dominant political parties and hoping to inspire a mass grassroots movement, the vice presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Karina Garcia, spoke to a crowd of supporters in Tucson on Wednesday night. Standing in a midtown church before about 100 people, Garcia made her pitch to […]

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Newsom: Clear California homeless encampments

Gov. Gavin Newsom and a worker carry a mattress from a homeless encampment along a freeway in San Diego as he promotes his announced new blueprint homeless plan on Jan. 12, 2022. Photo by Mike Blake, Reuters

Gov. Gavin Newsom is pressing for direct action, nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court gave cities the green light to clear homeless encampments and arrest or fine unhoused people for sleeping in public spaces. As CalMatters homelessness reporter Marisa Kendall explains, the governor on Thursday issued an executive order directing state agencies to […]

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As California cracks down on ‘junk fees’ it’s overlooking a major culprit: credit card companies

In an effort to reduce counterfeit and credit card fraud more than 200 million payment cards are embedded with computer chips in the U.S. Photo by Mike Blake, Reuters

Guest Commentary written by Rodney Williams Rodney Williams is cofounder and president of SoLo Funds, a community lending platform based in Los Angeles. It commissioned the independently researched 2023 Cash Poor Report. Inflation may be slowing, but high prices continue to dash all hopes of saving money for Californians living paycheck to paycheck.  Just this […]