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Business Insider | 03/29/2025

DOGE, DEI Scrutiny Threaten Black Federal Workers’ Middle-Class Path

Black Americans describe how being a federal worker was their path to the middle class -- and the heartbreak of losing it

Spectrum News 1 | 04/18/2025

‘Tenía y tengo miedo de hacerlos porque no se sabe’: inmigrante indocumentada sobre declaración de impuestos

Durante veinte años, Carolina ha hecho lo que cree que es lo correcto: presentar su declaración de impuestos usando un Número de Identificación Personal del Contribuyente, el llamado ITIN.

Radio Bilingue | 04/09/2025

Universidades en la mira

Ante la pérdida de cientos de millones de dólares en subvenciones y contratos gubernamentales, la Universidad de Columbia cedió ante la administración Trump y aceptó una serie de cambios en su política. Respondiendo a presiones similares, la Universidad de California prohíbe el uso de “declaraciones de diversidad” en la contratación de profesores. Las universidades de todo el país también se están doblegando ante las presiones. ¿Qué ambiente se respira en la comunidad universitaria? ¿Cuál es el impacto de esta batalla política en la educación superior?

Telemundo 52 | 04/09/2025

Cómo afectan las tarifas a la población en general?

El profesor Victor Narro, de UCLA, explica como las tarifas impuestas por Estados Unidos están afectando no solo a otros países, sino también a la población estadounidense.

Inside Fullerton | 04/21/2025

Beneath the Polish: The Untold Stories of Vietnamese Nail Workers

From September through December, Ly—a manicurist with over 40 years of experience—packs her toothbrush, socks and undergarments to stay in her cousin’s spare room in West Virginia. Each day, she’s up at 8 a.m. and doesn’t get home until 9 p.m., with just enough time to eat and wash up before starting over. For 11 hours a day, she’s hunched over hands and feet, filing nails, massaging calves, painting designs and helping people feel beautiful. “Even though I used to work in California, I had to move to another state to make enough for both of my kids’ education,” she says.

Random Lengths News | 04/14/2025

Boost Your Future: DEO Invests $32M in Workforce Programs for 2,300+ Workers Through 2026

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity or DEO April 14 announced a $32 million investment that will support 2,300 workers across the county by 2026. This investment includes the launch of two new workforce initiatives: the Fire Recovery and Resilience Workforce Program and the High Road Training Partnership or HRTP fund. Together, these programs address long-term workforce needs, offering rapid reemployment for workers displaced by the January windstorms and wildfires, ensuring a skilled workforce for the rebuild, and pathways to quality jobs and high-growth industries for all Angelenos.

Scholars Circle | 04/07/2025

Scholars’ Circle – Alien Enemy’s Act invoked to deport people from US without due process on civil charges – April 6, 2025

Trump Administration’s immigration policy invokes Alien Enemy’s Act to remove longtime residents in US without justification. This is a 1798 law that allows the government to remove nationals of countries When the US is at war with their country without due process. And it was signed in order to counter potential espionage. Prior to this citation, it has been used three times. In the War of 1812, World War I and World War II. In the last case, it was how the US created internment camps for Japanese Americans.

LA Sentinel | 04/02/2025

Smallwood-Cuevas Leads Summit to Create Equitable Access to Good Jobs in Emerging Industries

State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) convened more than 75 leaders of labor, business and the public sectors at LA Trade Technical College on Friday for a first-of-its-kind summit focused on expanding equitable access to good paying jobs in three emerging industries – Green Infrastructure, Cannabis, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

ABC News | 03/21/2025

Foreign adversaries, private sector, state governments may swoop in to recruit fired federal workers, experts say

Thousands of federal workers nationwide have been forced out of their jobs by the Trump administration as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency's says it aims to improve the government and cut down waste.

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs | 03/17/2025

UCLA Grants Deepen Ties to the L.A. Community

The UCLA Labor Center, a founding member of the Los Angeles Worker Center Network, seeks to document best practices around multi-racial, multi-industry, multi-language organizing in support of labor standards, immigrant rights and anti-discrimination enforcement. In this project, researchers and worker centers will determine the best methods — such as popular education, storytelling, academic journals and social media — to document successful and replicable L.A. worker campaigns since 2009. They will also implement legal clinics and provide technical assistance to local agencies enforcing fair labor laws.

Daily Bruin | 03/11/2025

Beyond the Statute: Barriers to health care access for undocumented individuals must be demolished

Undocumented people living in the United States are denied their basic right to health care each and every day, with only a few states choosing to expand coverage to this community.

The Orange County Register | 03/11/2025

Orange County legislator pushes to restore independent contractor status for manicurists

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