UPDATED 4:00 PM PT Mar. 06, 2021 PUBLISHED 3:25 PM PT Mar. 06, 2021 PUBLISHED 3:25 PM PST Mar. 06, 2021
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LOS ANGELES A new documentary is aptly titled
Hot Money, a reference to the flow of funds between countries to earn a short-term profit from the difference in interest rates.
In the film, former NATO Commander and Retired Four-Star Gen. Wesley Clark and his son, Wes Clark Jr., lead viewers through the realities of the financial system and the economic effects of climate change.
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Hot Money takes a look at the global economic impacts of climate change
The documentary features Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark and his son, with appearances by actor Jeff Bridges
By Hannah Poukish and Alex Cohen El Segundo PUBLISHED 10:01 AM PT Mar. 04, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:01 AM PST Mar. 04, 2021
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Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, D-Los Angeles, tells
Inside the Issues how her new legislation reckons with California’s long history of sterilizing women without their consent.
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Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo is pushing for legislation to compensate women who were previously sterilized against their will
California has sterilized more than 20,000 people over the last century
Up until 2010, incarcerated women held in California prisons were still being sterilized without their consent
Carrillo wants to pass a bill that would create a fund to compensate every woman who was involuntarily sterilized in the s
California s Only Independent Lawmaker Supports Forming New Political Party By Daniela Pardo and Hannah Poukish Sacramento PUBLISHED 4:22 PM PT Feb. 18, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:22 PM PST Feb. 18, 2021
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. â Support for a third political party continues to grow across the country. According to a new Gallup poll, 62% of Americans believe a new political party should be formed.
Assemblymember Chard Mayes, I-Yucca Valley, said he understands this hunger for another political party option as the only Independent lawmaker in the California legislature.
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Assemblymember Chad Mayes is in talks with dozens of former members of the GOP who want to start their own party
By Daniela Pardo and Hannah Poukish Sacramento PUBLISHED 11:57 AM PT Feb. 09, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:57 AM PST Feb. 09, 2021
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Since the pandemic began, California’s Unemployment Development Department has paid billions of dollars to fraudsters who’ve applied for and received unemployment benefits, while thousands of jobless Californians continue to wait for their applications to be processed.
Now, California lawmakers are coming together to help reform the state’s troubled unemployment agency.
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State legislators have introduced a series of bills to prevent future fraud and speed up the growing backlog of unemployment claims at the EDD
The proposed legislation would establish an oversight advisory board to keep EDD accoun