Across the United States and in the San Joaquin Valley, the number of poor people living in suburbs is growing faster than in urban cores — the historic focus of anti-poverty efforts and social services. Researchers from the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, on Monday released a new book, “Confronting Suburban Poverty in [...]

We wear lanyards, clip-on’s or sticky labels. This day, our names show affiliations with the California Hospital Association, the Central California Sikh community and a West Coast petroleum association. Like swarms of worker bees, we festoon the honeycomb of the Capitol building in Sacramento, clustering in the tiny offices of assembly members and senators, spitting [...]