Restaurant employees are essential workers yet often denied basic needs
Aasha Turner /Staff
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurant workers have faced unemployment, low wages and abuse from customers and employers.
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CA must extend eviction protections for most vulnerable residents
As policymakers negotiate, they must consider and protect low-income residents and residents of color from the crippling impacts of COVID-19 and eviction.
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Privacy wasn’t made for individuals living in poverty
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Ensuring a device per person pales in comparison to the challenge of ensuring every person’s data privacy, and their ability to seek redress, is protected.
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Berkeley needs to defend residents’ right to housing
It is time that we stop and think about our neighboring families and residents. As Berkeley students and residents of the Bay Area, we have a voice to support these residents and families.
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Meatless meat? UC Berkeley launches plant-based meat engineering lab
A new lab is being launched in the campus’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, featuring a new program aimed at concocting plant-based meat alternatives.
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Black girls are magic
In 2013, CaShawn Thompson started promoting the idea of the resilience of Black girls being akin to “magic” via #BlackGirlsAreMagic. Here’s to more magic.
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On being afraid to admit your poverty
I grew up poor.
Mind the language: poor. This term is different from phrases such as “low-income,”
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Experiencing a ‘progressive’ university as a 1st-generation college student coming from poverty
Universities can be a lonely place for a first-generation Mexican American student
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Income inequality assymetric
It’s official: The topic of income equality is in vogue. From researchers to cable talk show hosts, from policy makers to civic leaders, it seems like everyone is talking about the economic disparities between the affluent and the low- to middle- income earners in the United States. In fact, recently,
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Project serves at-risk Mexican youth
The first thoughts that came to mind were, “What if I get lost in the woods during a hike and I get eaten by wolves? Or what if they make us shower in groups and there’s no stalls or curtains?!” My fifth-grade teacher had chosen the top four students in
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