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Looking at our recent polarized presidential elections — and even the politicization of wearing masks (to combat COVID-19) — it’s easy to say that the partisan divide in our country has never been gre ...

Looking at our recent polarized presidential elections — and even the politicization of wearing masks (to combat COVID-19) — it’s easy to say that the partisan divide in our country has never been greater. 

New research finds the pandemic has likely stripped away most of the wage gains made after the Great Recession by California’s lowest earners.

In the five years before the pandemic, low-income Californians had begun to see substantial wage gains, chipping away at the income inequality gap between California’s haves and have-nots that has wid ...

US voters and reform practitioners had an opportunity over the weekend to wrap up 2020 celebrating the success of historic proposals for better elections and discuss future endeavors to give the Ameri ...

Before Social and Emotional Learning became widely recognized as a critical component of teen lives, Marisa Fogelman was well ahead of the curve. Fogelman spent two decades developing a curriculu ...

Laura Fink is an up-and-coming TV news pundit. She isn’t offended by the “talking head” label, which can carry negative connotations, but certainly would prefer “political analyst.” She agrees to ...

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Email it to hoa@ivn.usIn San Diego and throughout California, COVID-19 cases are rapidly increasing, putting our state’s frontline workers more at ...

Never-before-released data from the federal government has shed new light on the debt burden of low-income families in California. More than 13,500 low-income students attending California’s two publi ...

Momentum continues to build for broad systemic changes to how US citizens elect their public officials. Reforms like ranked choice voting and nonpartisan primaries are growing in popularity as voters ...