Laurence Du Sault
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Why personal debt looks healthy despite worst year for jobs
Looks can be deceiving. “Once the dust settles, this is going to be a story of inequality,” said Matthew Harding, professor of Economics and Statistics at UC Irvine. → Read More
How a one-time Bay Area tech worker amassed $43,804.72 in rental debt
Just a year ago, CJ Paillant lived in a brand new apartment complex in Oakland’s Jack London Square with a rooftop terrace, a game lounge and a pool with a hot tub that he and a friend rented… → Read More
Just quiet reflection as Bay Area welcomes Biden-Harris era
There was no violence, no pandemonium, no streets filled with revelry or vengeance. On the day that President Joe Biden pledged to “end this uncivil war” and Vice President Kamala Harris — th… → Read More
Pandemic creates “weird boom time” for some Bay Area remote workers
The difference between those who can work from home and those who can’t is creating a new divide in the midst of the worst health and economic crises in decades. → Read More
Pandemic creates “weird boom time” for some Bay Area remote workers
The difference between those who can work from home and those who can’t is creating a new divide in the midst the worst health and economic crises in decades. → Read More
Pandemic creates “weird boom time” for some Bay Area remote workers
The difference between those who can work from home and those who can’t is creating a new divide in the midst the worst health and economic crises in decades. → Read More
‘Desperate’ Bay Area residents brace for federal unemployment dollars to expire
Up to 750,000 Californians poised to lose weekly boost → Read More
Coronavirus study: Lifting eviction moratoriums leads to higher COVID-19 case rates, deaths
As the state faces its most stringent business shutdowns since spring and as moratoriums protecting many from eviction threaten to sunset, California lawmakers have started debating more protection… → Read More
Coronavirus study: Lifting eviction moratoriums leads to higher COVID-19 case rates, deaths
Public health researchers compared months of data from 27 states that lifted protections to the 17 states that kept them — including California. → Read More
Women workers may not be faring as well as you’d think
New index ranks women’s well-being in all California counties shows Santa Clara women are the most likely to work low wage jobs in the state. → Read More
Coronavirus: Oregon posts workplace outbreaks weekly, California has no such plan
The neighboring states have made starkly different choices about tracking and reporting workplace outbreaks. Here’s what Oregonians know and Californians don’t. → Read More
For some working Bay Area parents, only one solution to virtual school: drop their job
Virtual school is testing the limits of families of all shapes and sizes as they try to juggle the roles of worker, teacher and parent. But few are being tested like single parents who can’t … → Read More
For many Californians, the pandemic marks the end of ‘barely making it’
The pandemic is accelerating the demise of the middle class, leaving many unable to sustain financial independence. In Silicon Valley and elsewhere, middle-class workers have found themselves unabl… → Read More
From homelessness to real estate: How some Bay Area tenants won their affordable housing fight
The 12th Avenue project was backed by a grant of more than $1.3 million from the city of Oakland and by the Bay’s Future Fund, the investment branch of the Partnership for the Bay’s Future, a… → Read More
For many, new jobs will be a step down
As more counties move from the state’s “widespread” purple coronavirus tier to the less restrictive red tier, economists expect more businesses to reopen and employment to rise. But thousands… → Read More
What you need to know about California’s eviction protections
More than 8 million Californians have filed for unemployment since mid-March and advocates fear a massive eviction wave as both tenants and landlords have lost income. → Read More
What you need to know about California’s eviction protections
Just days before courts resumed processing eviction filings after a five-month freeze, California this week enacted statewide protections through next year for tenants struggling to pay rent amid t… → Read More
New California eviction protections come with a wish — federal funds
A stopgap measure on evictions signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom has drawn mixed reviews and a call for more federal support for renters and small landlords. → Read More
Report finds lack of scrutiny in cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women
For generations, order and cleanliness had been Christina Lastra’s family’s way of fighting off poverty. But the day in July 1991 when her mother’s mysterious death was ruled an accident marked the… → Read More
Homeless youth build East Bay tiny house village
Peek over the fence of one narrow building on Alcatraz Avenue in Oakland and you’ll see a handful of people buzzing around half a dozen tiny, multicolored houses. They are homeless youth and volunt… → Read More