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California officials are racing against a Thursday deadline to determine which high-stakes measures will go before voters in November, with negotiations still unresolved over...

California political leaders are racing against a Thursday deadline to keep several expensive and contentious measures off the November ballot, while also preparing their...

Uber, the ride-hailing and delivery giant that launched in San Francisco, is prepping a massive cash infusion to shake up politics in California, according to plans revealed first to POLITICO.

JOE BIDEN HAS been president for only four months, but he’s already been hailed as the country’s most pro-labor leader since Franklin Delano Roosevelt showed up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He wants to make it easier for workers to unionize and would raise the national minimum wage to $15. He opposed Proposition 22, the California ballot measure that allowed gig platforms like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash to continue treating their workers as independent contractors. In March, he backed the (doomed) union drive in a Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon warehouse. “Unions put power in the hands of workers,” he said then. “They level the playing field.”

Uber saw record demand in the first quarter as its food delivery business grew while lockdowns ended and more customers hailed rides