The California Dream project is a statewide non-profit media collaboration focused on issues of economic opportunity, quality-of-life, and the future of the California Dream.
Over the next two years, the collaboration will be sharing stories about housing, education, jobs, the wealth gap and more as it presents reporting on radio and television, online and through special programming.
Partner organizations include CalMatters, Capital Public Radio, KPBS, KPCC and KQED.
Share your California dream. On Twitter, use the hashtag #CADream.
January 6, 2020 | Ben Adler
As a veteran California Capitol reporter leaves the beat, he digs back into his reporter’s notebook to reflect on our growing polarization. His takeaway? Just because you disagree with someone’s political views, it doesn’t make them a bad person.
December 21, 2019
Recruiting male teachers of color is one thing. Getting them to stay is another.
December 20, 2019
One CSU-based program seeks to diversify the ranks of classroom teachers.
December 9, 2019
A Tijuana university offers a business degree in English at lower overall costs than U.S. schools.
December 2, 2019
By 2030, the state will be short some 4,000 physicians, according to a study from the HealthForce Center at UC San Francisco.
November 23, 2019
While MAF’s lending circles were initially focused on low-income Latino immigrants in San Francisco’s Mission District, the program has become a tool to boost credit scores for African Americans, young people and others across the country.
November 12, 2019 | Scott Rodd
Riverside County is the first in California to allow amateur chefs to welcome diners into their homes or offer take-out foods.
October 31, 2019
The checkered past and promising future of prefab housing.
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October 29, 2019 | Ben Adler
“Gig economy” companies including Uber, Lyft and Doordash are proposing a November 2020 California ballot measure that gives their drivers new benefits but keeps them classified as independent contractors.
October 23, 2019
The California Department of Health Care Services wants to interrupt the cycle between the street, the hospital, and back again by trying to house the most vulnerable and reduce their health care costs.
