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@capitalandmain
Investigating money, power and society.
Los Angeles
Joined November 2013
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    At the end of the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, 3.3 million more U.S. residents had health insurance than did so in 2019, a new @capitalandmain analysis finds. That led to the lowest rate of residents without health insurance in U.S. history.
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    When adjusted for inflation, the average Arizona social worker today actually makes between $4,000 and $6,000 less than social workers earned in the state over 20 years ago. #Fifty100PayGap
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    A full-time worker currently earning the national median wage of $50,000 would be making close to $100,000 now — if the country’s economic growth had continued to be shared over the last 45 years. #Fifty100PayGap
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    David Sirota Joins Capital & Main – Award-Winning Reporter to Lead National Investigative Desk on Inequality mailchi.mp/capitalandmain…
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    Los Angeles is not enforcing its law against illegal short-term rentals facilitated by Airbnb and other companies. It is estimated that the city had lost more than $300 million in fines it did not issue to violators of the Home-Sharing Ordinance in 2022.
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    Guns spewed lead dust. Child gymnasts trained. California regulators failed to act. capitalandmain.com/lead-dust-clos…
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    Pull back the curtain on the Trump economy and you’ll find a nation where income inequality is rising to become the new normal.
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    Thousands of needy California school kids may go hungry if Donald Trump is able to deny food stamps to 3.1 million Americans. capitalandmain.com/school-kids-su…
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    Many immigrants hold off on going to the doctor until they can’t wait anymore.
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    Trump campaigned on fighting for the working class, and exit polls found that he won 56% of the blue-collar vote. One hundred days in, the self-styled champion of the working class has delivered layoffs, trade wars and an erosion of worker protections.
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    California’s corporate fast food chains and their scare partners were sure about one thing: The state’s new $20 per hour minimum wage for most workers in that sector was going to lead to massive job cuts, dramatic price hikes or both. It hasn’t happened.
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    Starbucks has branded itself as progressive and open-minded. Tyler Keeling (@UnionTyler) is a young @SBWorkersUnited organizer aiming to dispel that corporate myth.
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    Americans' wages are not keeping pace with skyrocketing inflation and cost of living. @capitalandmain's new #Fifty100PayGap series examines the causes of America's income inequality crisis. capitalandmain.com/american-worke…
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    It’s easy to pick up a bag of delicate small bell peppers in the supermarket, or lift a heavy watermelon out of the bin, without thinking about what it must have been like to get them from field to city in this summer’s heat. (Photoessay by David Bacon: bit.ly/3lubeOS)