Los Angelesarea leaders continue to defy President-elect Donald Trump.The latest move is today's announcement of a $10 million L.A. Justice Fund intended to help
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Los Angeles is a city of immigrants: Nearly 40 percent of us were born outside the United States. In the county, 1 in 10 people are undocumented. It would make sense
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Sure, California is by far the biggest, most populous, richest and most awesome state in the union. But to the national political establishment, embedded like a tick
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This year it became harder than ever to afford a place to live in L.A. More than half of L.A.'s dwellers rent, and more than half of those renters are cost-burde
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Last month, a website called The Reality of Sexual Assault in the Cocktail Community? launched with the goal to expose what the site describes as rampant sexual assa
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At the height of the Great Depression, in 1937, the federal government decided that paying 30 percent or more of your income on housing is a serious cost burden. It
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will vote next week on a groundbreaking motion that, if passed, would fund legal aid for undocumented county residents fa
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For years, law enforcement has used gang injunctions to ban certain people from hanging out in certain areas. This tool ostensibly cuts down on gang activity by deny
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The well-regarded UCLA Anderson Forecast is a cheat sheet for shifting economic conditions in the country in the years to come, in this case 2017 and 2018. But the f
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Batten down the hatches. The wettest storm of the season so far is likely to hit Los Angeles Thursday and Friday, forecasters say.If you're expecting to light up
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The uneven distribution of wealth in the United States isn't exactly breaking news. The richest 1 percent of people in this country are worth more than the botto
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Garment factories in the Los Angeles Fashion District are dusty, hot, poorly ventilated, vermin-infested and unsafe, according to a new study by researchers at UCLA.
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