How Federal Intervention Can Ease California’s Homeless Crisis

By Edward Ring
11/05/2019
California’s homeless crisis is now visible to everyone living in the state. Along with tens of thousands of homeless who are concentrated in various districts of the major cities, additional thousands are widely dispersed. If you drive into most major urban centers, you will see their tent encampments along freeway junctions, under bridges, along frontages,...

TAGS: Bay Area, California, homeless, Homeless Industrial Complex, Los Angeles County, regulations, San Francisco, Trump

$100,000 Club: 86 Lifeguards Earn Over $100K Per Year

By Conor McGarry
10/27/2016
Nice Benefits! Add in health and retirement, and 128 L.A. County lifeguards earned total compensation of over $100,000 last year. Los Angeles County boasts the world’s largest professional lifeguard association. But most of the association’s 850 guards work seasonally. The incomes of the 150 year-round lifeguards can seem surprisingly rich to anyone raised on the...

TAGS: Los Angeles County

Over 8,000 LA County Retirees Made at Least $100K in Pension Pay as Taxpayer Cost Soars

By Robert Fellner
06/17/2015
Last year, 8,088 retirees in the Los Angeles County Employees’ Retirement Association (LACERA) received yearly pension and medical benefits packages worth at least $100,000, a more than 11% increase from the previous year, according to Transparent California’s recently published 2014 pension data. At the same time, the employer’s annual required contribution – the cost borne by taxpayers...

TAGS: Los Angeles County, pension