George Floyd

Aug 18, 2023 | capitalandmain.com | Mark Kreidler |George Floyd

The past 18 months have been marked by loud labor organizing efforts — and opposition — at several massive corporate enterprises, including Starbucks and Amazon. Public approval of unions, meanwhile, is up to 71%, the highest level since 1965, according to a Gallup poll from August 2022. Yet according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, the union membership rate of 10.1% last year was the lowest since records were kept, dating to 1983.

Aug 8, 2023 | capitalandmain.com | Aaron Cantú |George Floyd

California is spending billions to shore up its defenses against heat, flash floods, rising seas and other effects of climate change. But to do this, it is, ironically, working with the very institutions that are financing the fossil fuel activity causing the crisis. To sell bonds that finance various initiatives, including massive projects that help the state deal with effects of the climate crisis, California relies on banks to find investors willing to purchase them.

Aug 2, 2023 | capitalandmain.com | Jessica A. Goodheart |George Floyd

On a recent workday, Angelica Hernandez labored in an unbearably hot McDonald’s kitchen in Monterey Park, east of Los Angeles. “The AC has not been working,” she said through an interpreter. “I leave work with a headache or feeling nauseated.”  Hernandez’s experiences working various shifts for no more than $18.19 an hour the last two decades have included being sexually harassed by a manager and getting cheated out of pay by her boss, she says.

Jul 28, 2023 | capitalandmain.com | George Floyd |Shonda Buchanan

Three years after Floyd’s death, a poet searches for meaning amid 400 years of Black dispossession.

Jul 21, 2023 | capitalandmain.com | Mark Schapiro |George Floyd

Cups bouncing off trays, flight crews strapping on to their seats midflight, bumps in the sky: Into this zig-zagging volatility we fly. That is, if you make it off the ground. This past weekend — high season for summer travel — about 2,450 flights were cancelled across the country, driven by the sequence of rollicking extremes wreaking chaos in our lower atmosphere.