SACRAMENTO — At first, it seemed just an unwelcome nod to frugality. Overtime for police officers was reduced. Vacant positions went unfilled….
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/us/after-deep-police-cuts-sacramento-sees-rise-in-crime.html?src=rechp
SOME 70 million immigrants have come to America since the first colonists arrived. The role their labor has played in economic development is widely understood. Much less familiar is the extent to which their remarkable innovations have driven American prosperity.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/opinion/immigrants-as-entrepreneurs.html
LOS ANGELES — For most of his life, Blake Smith said, “every inch of my body craved male sexual contact.”
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/us/ex-gay-men-fight-view-that-homosexuality-cant-be-changed.html
For opponents of same-sex marriage, it has been a potent and often repeated talking point: though the courts or the legislatures of some states have given gay and lesbian couples the right to marry, wherever it has appeared on the ballot, voters have rejected it.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/us/politics/gay-marriage-supporters-hope-to-win-in-4-states.html?src=recg
In the nearly two decades since Californians voted to bar undocumented immigrants from utilizing public schools and hospitals, the state’s electorate has become increasingly tolerant toward people who are in the country illegally, although it remains tough on border security and enforcement, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll shows.
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Each cohort of high-school students includes some 35,000 who are high-achieving and low-income—their test scores are in the top 10 percent and their income is in the bottom quarter. But new research shows that many of them are not applying to the colleges where they would probably have the best outcomes.
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Nearly 50 years after the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was enacted, women continue to earn less than men do throughout their careers, and the gap is seen as soon as one year out of college, a new study has found.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Male-Female-Pay-Gap-Persists/135270/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
A decade ago, Charlie Beck watched as William J. Bratton arrived in Los Angeles and began rebuilding a department deeply tarnished by the Rodney King beating, riots and corruption scandals. Bratton made many changes as chief, but Beck was particularly taken by his aggressive effort to rebuild the LAPD’s broken relationship with the African American
After three years of steady decline, hate crimes in Los Angeles County rose 15% last year, due in part to an increase in white supremacist and street gang incidents, officials will report Wednesday.
Read more in the Los Angeles TImes: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hate-crime-20121024,0,4110244.story
There is a brutal constancy to the workweeks of these two women: 72-hour weeks piled one atop another.
In Corona, Queens, Celina Alvarez chops chayote and avocados and chickens in a dank restaurant basement. And a few blocks away, Rocio Loyola makes juice drinks.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/nyregion/for-two-women-in-queens-a-sick-day-means-youre-fired.html?ref=nyregion