“You wanna come over to a girl’s night out?” “Sorry, I can’t. I have to stay home and take care of my brothers because my mom has work tonight.” That is the story of my life most of the time.

Growing up, I never really had a stable computer. The computer we had was always using those free internet disks when the last subscription expired and the computer always seemed like it needed to be fixed. I know that was what my family could afford at the time, but it sucked how the schools would have good computers.

David Batiste says he loves the job he describes as “a little dangerous” and “never the same routine.” Batiste is an equipment operator with Richmond’s Code Enforcement Abatement crew. On this day, he is helping demolish a burned down house at 24th and Maricopa Ave. He said this home has been a source of blight, squatters and fires.

For over 30 years, Mike Rhyne has been waking up at 2 a.m. to begin his workday. He makes between $500-600 a week. Like many people who choose to be self-employed, Rhyne enjoys the autonomy.

Tonia McMillian has been a childcare provider for over 20 years. After struggling with the problem-ridden industry for years, she now works with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to help her fellow childcare providers get the legal protections they need.

People tend to think that poverty is the stuff they see in movies — people sleeping on the streets, doing drugs, and all that kind of stuff. But the reality is very different.

Mobile home park owners, along with several elected officials, are urging voters to pass Measure D, which they believe will improve representation of Eastern Coachella Valley residents on the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD). If passed, Measure D will change the CVWD election process from the current at-large system to by-division.

Can you imagine working for weeks and not getting paid? According to Joanna Concepcion of the Filipino Migrant Center Community Organizer in Long Beach, wage theft is a "growing and a serious" problem among low-income workers in Long Beach and nationwide.

When Long Beach senior Robert Woods, 61, thinks of his current housing situation at the Bay Hotel in Long Beach, he says, “I can’t wait to get out.”

A day before the release of Cesar Chavez, the film, on March 27, farmworker advocates, children and elders gathered in Bakersfield to watch the film alongside members of the Chavez family. Directed by Mexican actor Diego Luna, and starring Michael Pena, Rosario Dawson, and John Malkovich, the film celebrates the life of civil rights activist, Ce...

Christopher Zatarain arrived at the California Coastal Commission meeting at Long Beach City Hall at 8 a.m. last week to fill out a public comment card. He wanted to speak to the Commission about an issue close to his heart.