The Fault Line

California's minimum wage is now $16.90 — more than double the federal minimum. It still isn't enough. Workers are taking side gigs. Married couples can't make rent. Young adults can't move out. Enter the campaign to get a $30 wage on the ballot. faultlinenews.org/they-earn-doub…

This week marks the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign—an economic justice movement. The Fault Line interviewed Californians who met MLK during his visits to the state. One joined the campaign. This is living history. faultlinenews.org/they-met-marti…

The Fault Line spoke with them about how 25 years of dryness shaped their lives. Their question isn't "how do we reverse this?" It's "how do we adapt?" faultlinenews.org/the-drought-ge…

In January, CA became drought-free for the first time in 25 years. But for young people statewide -- from Humboldt County to National City -- that milestone doesn't erase two decades of wildfire smoke, water scarcity and evacuation drills.

"The definition I have for 'apocalyptic' is different." - Zara, 19 California's youngest residents have never known a state without crisis. 25 years of fire and drought shaped the "Drought Generation." The Fault Line reports from across the state. faultlinenews.org/the-drought-ge…

Victor Glover is 50 today. He's one of dozens of astronauts from California. The state has also shaped physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who argues in a new book that space exploration is tied to inequality, militarization, power. From The Fault Line faultlinenews.org/a-theoretical-…

She got her green card. Then Trump won reelection. Nothing felt safe. A California teacher’s life after legal status — and what “security” actually means in today’s immigration system. New from The Fault Line: California, Below the Surface. faultlinenews.org/she-got-a-gree…