Miller Sanford Opinion: How the GI Bill widened the Black-white wealth gap At a time when it was extremely difficult for Black families to purchase homes and utilize government benefits, my grandfather accomplished an almost impossible feat: He used the GI Bill after World War II and bought a house. For three years, I’ve researched the Black-white wealth … Read more
Showers at times heavy and a risk of thunderstorms. Environment Canada is forecasting showers at times heavy and a risk of thunderstorms with a high of 25. Photo by John Kenney /The Gazette Showers at times heavy and a risk of thunderstorms. Environment Canada is forecasting a high of 25 with the UV index at … Read more
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, holding a face mask during a House subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in 2022. (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press) Over his half-century career, Anthony Fauci learned what it was like to be both loved and loathed. As director of the National … Read more
Manuel Pastor, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Sept. 5. At 150 pages, Manuel Pastor’s resume is the length of a short story collection. The director of USC’s Equity Research Institute isn’t engaging in academic preening, though. For more than three decades, he has practiced and pioneered a form of scholastic … Read more
Demonstrators protest outside the Supreme Court two years ago after its 5-4 decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion. Since then, UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler has become a sought-after expert on the subject. (Steve Helber / Associated Press) For two years, ever since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, the … Read more
Sheri Wilkins talks about her experience using the DailyPay app outside of the clubhouse at her apartment complex in College Station, Texas, in March. (Sam Craft / Associated Press) When Anna Branch, 37, had her hours at work reduced in 2019, she suddenly noticed ads for an app called EarnIn. “You know how they get … Read more
Marta Segura: Chilling voice in an overheating city Marta Segura knows it can be hard to think of heat as an emergency in Los Angeles, either because you’ve got the air conditioner blasting and a cold drink in your hand, or because you don’t have enough money for food, let alone the electricity bill. But … Read more
The effect on adult children’s credit scores when parents remove them as authorized users on credit cards will depend on how well the children have managed credit on their own. (iStockphoto / Getty Images) Dear Liz: Many years ago I took out a credit card to pay for my two children’s college expenses. They were … Read more
Odilia Romero, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Sept. 5. Don’t call Odilia Romero Latina, or Mexican, or Hispanic. She is Zapotec, born in the town of San Bartolomé Zoogocho in the highlands of Oaxaca. And in the Zapotec language there’s a word she seeks to embody: gozona, the honorable commitment … Read more
Mia Lehrer, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Nov. 8. Few are the corners of L.A. that don’t bear the imprint of Studio-MLA, the landscape architecture firm founded by the energetic Mia Lehrer three decades ago. At SoFi Stadium, her studio designed magnificent cascading Mediterranean gardens and a six-acre lake that … Read more
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