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Home Not Found: The Cost of Homelessness in Silicon Valley

May 26, 2015 / By Daniel Flaming

The County of Santa Clara released the largest and most comprehensive body of information assembled in the United States to understand the true cost of homelessness. The report, “Home Not Found,” analyzed 25 million public records to identify entrances into and exits from homelessness, and costs to the public.

Photograph by Ali Azimi, "Smog and air pollution in Pasadena Highway, downtown Los Angeles." Date 19 November 2007 Author Aliazimi Licensing "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: Creative Commons, Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Sustain Los Angeles

May 11, 2015 / By Yvonne Yen Liu

Los Angeles Economy Operating at Unsafe Level for People and the Planet. New Report Provides Tools for Local Government to Take Action.

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#CruelSummer

April 21, 2015 / By Patrick Burns

Study shows how extending unemployment insurance to education workers each summer will benefit over 80,000 struggling families and bring $187.3 million in additional wealth to California

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Raising Los Angeles Minimum Wage To $15.25 Will Benefit Communities

March 19, 2015 / By Yvonne Yen Liu

Raising the minimum wage to $15.25 with enforcement provisions in Los Angeles boosts communities and the overall economy by providing more Angelenos with income to spend on the basics, according to a new report released today by Economic Roundtable, a public policy research organization.

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Sinking Underground: The Growing Informal Economy in California Construction

August 31, 2014 / By Daniel Flaming

There were 143,900 construction workers in California's informal economy in 2011. This included 104,100 construction workers who were not reported by their employers and 39,800 who were misclassified as independent contractors.

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