California’s official unemployment rate — the percentage of jobless workers among the state’s labor force — remained unchanged in September at 5.3%. That doesn’t sound alarming, unless one dives more deeply …
Over the last dozen years, Democrats have gained, lost and finally nailed down supermajorities in the California Legislature. Now they hold more than 75% of its 120 seats. Having achieved total control, Democratic …
California’s public schools live — or die — by the numbers. They are utterly dependent on how much money the state budget allocates each year under Proposition 98, a formula adopted …
Sixty-four years ago, California adopted a master plan for higher education that, among other things, set operational parameters for the state’s three college systems. The University of California would be the research …
Of all the skills that children may acquire in school, none surpasses reading in importance. The ability to read and comprehend what’s read is the key to all other learning, …
As most Californians know from personal experience, their state has an especially high cost of living, particularly for housing. Forbes magazine rates California as having the nation’s third-highest living costs behind …
More than a third of California’s roughly 39 million people are under 27 years old, three-quarters of them are nonwhite, and their families’ incomes are, for the most part, relatively …
While Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators wrestle with a massive state budget deficit this year, a few blocks from the Capitol another crisis that could have far more impact on California …
When federal government and state governments passed laws governing wages, working hours and other workplace conditions prior to World War II, agricultural labor was exempted. Many years later, after the …
When then-Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature created the Local Control Funding Formula a decade ago, their professed goal was to close the achievement gap separating poor and English-learner K-12 students …