For sustainable climate policy, California needs a balanced approach
California has been described as “the leader of the resistance,” and the “de facto climate negotiator for the United States.” These titles reflect a phenomenon happening in this state that much of the country has yearned for from Washington, D.C.: positive action for the benefit of the people. When we had a measles outbreak in […]
Middle Class must be Higher Priority for California Leaders
For years, economists, business leaders and policymakers warned that the decline in blue-collar manufacturing jobs in California would leave us with a shrinking middle class, limited economic mobility and a plethora of social ills traditionally equated with systemic poverty. A recent report by the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation demonstrates that those warnings have become […]