Posted: 19 Aug 2015 06:41 AM PDT
Every year, governments spend tens of billions of dollars on tax breaks for private companies. Now, state and city governments will have to start reporting it as lost income.By Puck Lo / Yes! Magazine
In 2013, Chicago’s Board of Education announced that due to a $1 billion deficit, the city was closing some 50 public schools. The same year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel gave more than $55 million in public tax money to build a new basketball arena and hotel. Many outraged students took to the streets to protest. Asean Johnson, nine years old at the time, was one of them. [Read more...]
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- Stolen Pay, Stolen Lives: It’s Time to Beef Up Enforcement for Wage Theft in California
- Freeps in the News: Jim Bliesner, Barbara Zaragoza, Jeeni Criscenzo
- Anatomy Of A Lowrider: The Standards, The Art, The Technology
- Traumatized
- This New Federal Rule Will Bring Secretive Corporate Tax Breaks to Light
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Posted: 19 Aug 2015 10:06 AM PDT
By Doug Porter On the eve of an assembly committee hearing, the California Fair Paycheck Coalition and the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST) have released a new video showing the link between human trafficking and wage theft. The state Senate has already passed SB 588, authored by Senate President pro TemporeKevin de León, enhancing the ability of the state labor commissioner to fight wage theft and help workers collect stolen pay. Currently only 17% of workers receiving judgements for stolen wages are able to collect payment. Research indicates low-wage workers lose, on average, 12.5% of their annual income to wage theft. [Read more...]
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Posted: 19 Aug 2015 09:08 AM PDT
By Anna Daniels San Diego Free Press contributors are a diverse and talented group of individuals. It will be a busy weekend for three of them with the unveiling of Jim Bliesner's sculpture Cultural Fusion, Casa Familiar's Abrazo Award for Barbara Zaragoza and An Evening of Provocative Poetry with Jeeni Criscenzo. These events follow upon last week's screening of SDFP video- journalist Horacio Jones' short film "Wingin' It" at the 48 Hour Film Project in San Diego. [Read more...]
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Posted: 19 Aug 2015 06:52 AM PDT
To join a car club or win awards at car shows, every lowrider needs to adhere to strict standards. Standard #1: the car must be impeccably clean. Jose Arevalo, born and raised in National City, explains the standards while giving me a tour of his car. Arevalo is a member of the Switch Car Club, established in National City in 1980. “How switch came together was, six of us guys played baseball together down in Las Palmas here locally. As we turned fourteen or fifteen years old we started getting cars. The club right there, the Latin Lowriders, were older guys, so we kinda looked up to them. They are the kind of group of people who showed us standards. Things that you do. How to act. How to be correct. During the early mid-1980s, Switch flourished and grew to be from 6 guys to 36 guys. From the early 80s to the late 80s we were one of the top clubs in San Diego.” [Read more...]
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Posted: 19 Aug 2015 06:47 AM PDT
The first time I was accused of being a privileged white woman, I was defensive. I tried to explain all of the non-privileged experiences I’ve endure in my life, despite the fact that I am white. But my accuser wasn’t buying any of it. She doubled down on her angry outbursts. [Read more...]
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Posted: 19 Aug 2015 06:41 AM PDT
Every year, governments spend tens of billions of dollars on tax breaks for private companies. Now, state and city governments will have to start reporting it as lost income.By Puck Lo / Yes! Magazine In 2013, Chicago’s Board of Education announced that due to a $1 billion deficit, the city was closing some 50 public schools. The same year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel gave more than $55 million in public tax money to build a new basketball arena and hotel. Many outraged students took to the streets to protest. Asean Johnson, nine years old at the time, was one of them. [Read more...] |
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