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How COVID-19 Gutted California’s Budget – Recording

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically reshaped the state’s budget outlook. Before the pandemic, California was assuming another year of economic growth and budgeted accordingly. Instead, the economic woes from the pandemic have opened a $50 billion hole—25% of the state’s entire budget—that makes cuts inevitable and new investments difficult. Read More

Community Spotlight: Nadia Anggraini

Meet Nadia Nadia is an Indonesian native who grew up in Singapore, and has called San Francisco home for the past 10 years. She currently works in strategy & analytics at Uber, but her professional career has spanned across industries, from management consulting to nonprofit to tech. She spends a… Read More

The Great Affordability Crisis: A Discussion with Author Annie Lowrey

In The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America, Annie Lowrey reveals that in one of the supposed best decades in the American economy, “families were bled dry by landlords, hospital administrators, university bursars, and child-care centers. For millions, a roaring economy… Read More

Introducing TechEquity’s 2020 Legislative Agenda

Each year, hundreds of bills are introduced into the California legislature. We sift through legislation to find and select a set of bills that address problems in our issue areas: housing and labor & workforce. We believe that these bills will do the most to ensure an affordable home, a… Read More

Oakland, Don’t Cut Homelessness Funding

We are deeply concerned that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has proposed using funds raised by the recently passed Measure Q for police salaries. We supported Measure Q in the March election because it would raise funds to provide housing and services to alleviate Oakland’s homelessness crisis. We oppose… Read More

Texodus: What does it mean for tech to leave the Bay Area?

With the announcement from tech giants like Facebook and Twitter that most of their employees can work from home forever, many people are expecting a mass tech exodus from the Bay Area—a texodus, if you will. For some, it’s a call for celebration, a release of the pressure valve of… Read More

Can the California Legislature Fix our Housing Crisis?

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the urgency of fixing our housing crisis up to a fever pitch. With more than one-fifth of Californians out of work, unemployment benefits set to expire in the coming months, and a massive statewide deficit, we’re potentially facing mass evictions and stagnated housing production. With… Read More

How COVID-19 Gutted California’s Budget

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically reshaped the state’s budget outlook. Before the pandemic, California was assuming another year of economic growth and budgeted accordingly. Instead, the economic woes from the pandemic have opened a $50 billion hole—25% of the state’s entire budget—that makes cuts inevitable and new investments difficult. Join… Read More

Tech Workers, Let’s Get to Work

[Content warning: Black death, Black trauma] Last week was a horrific demonstration of the way power is wielded against Black people in this country.  We saw it in Amy Cooper, a white woman who threatened to call the cops on Christian Cooper, a Black man who simply asked her to… Read More

Is It Finally Time for a Basic Income? – Recording

Long before the COVID-19 crisis, there was a human-made crisis of an economy so broken that almost half American families couldn’t scrape together $400 in an emergency. Now, with the nation approaching 36 million unemployed, policymakers are forced to reckon with an economy that valued big returns for shareholders over… Read More