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Voice of San Diego

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Category: Fine City

In this biweekly column, editor Jesse Marx takes big concepts to the everyday level. Think income inequity, health care, policing, housing, politics — and how they impact you.

Marx will show how decisions made in the halls of power trickle down. Who wins, who loses and why. Subscribe now.

Posted inFine City

Advocates Are Piloting a New Kind of Income Assistance

by Jesse Marx September 8, 2022September 12, 2022

Unlike the more widely known universal basic income proposal, the guaranteed income program being tested here offers no-strings-attached cash transfers to families based on trust. Households can spend the money on whatever they want rather than abide by strict and often invasive rules.

Posted inFine City

New Homeowners Pay Considerably More in Taxes Than Longtime Homeowners

by Jesse Marx and Catherine Allen August 18, 2022August 19, 2022
Consuelo Villalpando sits outside her mobile home in Imperial Beach
Posted inFine City

Mobile Homeowners at Risk of Eviction Petition Imperial Beach for Help

by Jesse Marx August 4, 2022February 28, 2023
Posted inFine City

Public Transit Is Not Just an Environmental Issue – It’s About the Workforce

by Jesse Marx July 21, 2022July 21, 2022
An illustration of San Diego scholar and activist Mike Davis by Carolyn Ramos for Voice of San Diego
Posted inFine City

Recognizing Mike Davis, San Diego’s Giant of Urban Theory

by Jesse Marx July 7, 2022July 7, 2022
Posted inNews Updates

Fast Food Worker Bill Moves Forward

by Jesse Marx June 29, 2022June 29, 2022
Posted inFine City

Courts Rely on Late Fees to Fund Their Operations But They May Need to Find a Different Source Soon

by Jesse Marx June 23, 2022June 23, 2022
Crystal Irving, president of SEIU Local 221, joins fast food workers and activists to block traffic outside Jack in the Box headquarters on June 9, 2022. / Photo by Joe Orellana for Voice of San Diego
Posted inFine City

Workers Rage Against the ‘Modern Food Machine’

by Jesse Marx June 16, 2022March 19, 2023
Posted inFine City

Tourism Workers Come Out of Pandemic Swinging

by Jesse Marx June 2, 2022June 3, 2022
Posted inFine City

The Toll That Comes With an Eviction: ‘My Life Went Downhill From There’

by Jesse Marx May 12, 2022May 12, 2022

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