LA Podcast - Handle with Childcare

Mike, Memo, and guest co-host Faizah Malik look back on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and its legacies, including the Department of Homeland Security, which recently decided they will not (yet) revoke Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans. Then: childcare in Los Angeles is becoming more difficult and more expensive to find — but maybe a billionaire tax could help?

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SHOW NOTES

Last week marked the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and Alex Padilla’s remarks about the tragedy as acting mayor of Los Angeles

Julia Wick profiled the moment in a piece for L.A. Material

This week also granted some relief to thousands of Salvadorans after a month of threats that their TPS (Temporary Protected Status) would be taken away

Memo and L.A. Taco reporter Izzy Ramirez chronicled this saga (and other ICE malfeasance)

Journalist Cerise Castle goes deep on LAPD’s relationship with ICE with Dominique DiPrima of KBLA

CHIRLA, CARCEN-LA, and other advocates gathered to demand protections for TPS holders and their families 

In other worrying news for families, UCLA is closing their childcare facilities

Similarly, the city of Los Angeles used COVID funds to build a network of city preschools — but now say they don’t have enough funding to run them

(How expensive is childcare in this town anyway?)

As the mayoral race draws nearer, make sure to educate yourself on your preferred candidate’s stance on street vending

LAist’s Gab Chabrán reports on the basics of legal street vending practices

The L.A. Times editorial board breaks its publishing drought, writing an opinion for the first time in a year and a half to oppose Prop 40, the proposed billionaire tax

Surely this isn’t because L.A. Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong is a billionaire? That would be too obvious?

Some of the best editorial writing in LA is still coming from former LAT editorial board member, Robert Greene, who now writes a regular newsletter at Los Angeles Rules

Some guides and controversy to help you form your own opinion on whether or not Mark Zuckerberg should have to give the state $11 billion in a one-time tax

Or come discuss with us! Check out LA Forward’s teach in about the most dangerous measures on the ballot this Tues 9/15 https://www.laforward.org/events/prop-warning

Thanks to Charlotte Landes for producing and Bianca Cockrell for production assistance

The reporting and analysis you hear in the show is put together by our rotating cast of producers and co-hosts every week. All opinions expressed on the show are solely those of co-hosts and may not represent the views of LA Forward

Mike Bonin is the Executive Director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at CalState LA, and can be found at @mikebonin on Instagram and @mikebonin.bsky.social on Bluesky

Memo Torres is an award-winning journalist with L.A. Taco, where he covers ICE and immigration raids as host of the Daily Memo. He’s on Instagram at @el_tragon_de_los_angeles

Faizah Malik is a housing and civil rights attorney, who ran as a progressive for LA City Council in District 11. She can be found at @faizahforla on Instagram