Levi Sumagaysay reports on the California economy for CalMatters. She previously worked at MarketWatch and the Mercury News. Before moderating the Zócalo/The James Irvine Foundation panel in Oakland, “What Is a Good Job Now? In Gig Work,” she swung by the green room to chat Bay Area hikes, the vibecession, and “money memories.”
This piece was published alongside the Zócalo/Irvine Foundation program “How Can Workers Make Sure They’re Treated Fairly in the Workplace?” Read the Takeaway of …
Want to become a signature voice of your troubled nation? Perhaps you need a decades-long exile in California.
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Can Californians find their way to San Jose?
That spin on the old song, made famous by Dionne Warwick, might be the most important question facing the state’s transportation system. Because …
In 1973, San Francisco beer delivery drivers were at odds with local beer distributors over low wages, union-busting efforts, and employment discrimination. Distributors of the Colorado-based Coors Brewing Company were …
Growing up in the Bay Area, I heard a lot of family lore about Jack London, and my great-grandfather George Samuels.
Samuels had been a district attorney, a police court judge, …
