A California city is giving new parents $500 a month. It's one of a growing number of basic income pilots focused on families.

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Pomona, California is $500 a month to parents with children under 4 years old.

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California put up its fast-food wage to $20. Its governor is adamant it's not causing employment to fall.

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California raised its minimum wage for staff at quick-service restaurant chains to $20.

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I'm a tech CEO who moved from California to Nevada after my home was burglarized. I feel safer in Las Vegas, which has nearly everything San Francisco had and more.

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Teddy Liaw left California for Nevada in January 2021.

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I got paid $10,000 to move to Tulsa. My mortgage for a whole house is about what I used to pay to rent one room.

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Jasmine Bell got paid $10,000 to move from Los Angeles to Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Oakley founder lists $68 million brutalist home — see inside the concrete compound that looks like a Bond villain's lair

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Oakley founder James Jannard listed his Beverly Hills cement compound for $68,000,000.
Oakley founder James Jannard listed his Beverly Hills cement compound for $68,000,000.

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Huge US military 'Manta Ray' sea drone spotted on Google Earth at California naval base

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A stranger fat-shamed me while I was grocery shopping. It taught me a valuable lesson about how I'm perceived.

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The author was fat-shamed in a grocery store.

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The average household would need to save for 36 years to afford a typical home in LA. Here's how 50 US markets compare.

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Many potential homeowners struggle to make down payments.

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The Supreme Court just made it easier for governments to remove unhoused people from public spaces

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On February 15, 2023, at the request of the DC government, the National Park Service cleared a homeless encampment in McPherson Square in Washington, DC.

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A millennial worked 2 remote jobs so he could retire at 50 but said overemployment isn't worth the stress

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A California millennial says secretly working two remote jobs helped him save for an early retirement — but that he's happy he's back to just one job.

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