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FixLA Submits Budget Balancing Plan

SEIU 721 Researchers and members of the Fix LA Coalition provided testimony on behalf of the Coalition of LA Unions to the City's Budget and Finance Committee.  We reviewed how we made sacrifices that saved the City, Read More...

A New Voice for the LA County Board of Supervisors

This June we have an unprecedented chance to elect an ally to the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. Former Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis is poised to take the place of Gloria Molina in Seat 1, nonetheless she is taking nothing for granted and doing a full scale voter contact Read More...

LA County Social Workers Respond to Blue Ribbon Report

It's been a year since the tragic death of Gabriel Fernandez, the eight-year-old Palmdale boy  badly beaten while under the protection of  Los Angeles County's child welfare system. Now, a group of serious-minded professionals, named by the Board of Supervisors to a Blue Ribbon Read More...

Social Security and the 1%

On April 17, most of America's wealthiest citizens will stop paying Social Security taxes. Once the payroll contribution cap of $117,000 is reached, millionaires and billionaires stop paying into the Read More...