Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED

Burmese doctors dish sushi at a restaurant, a Jordanian computer engineer drives for Uber, and a Nepali non-profit program officer stocks shelves at a Walmart. Nearly 2 million college-educated immigrants labor in jobs for which they are overqualified, or cannot find work at all.   The “brain waste” phenomenon is costing California and other states billions […]

It’s a Catch-22: to get good credit, consumers must first have good credit scores. Programs like the one run by the nonprofit Mission Asset Fund bridge informal traditional lending practices with the mainstream financial system. 

A California teenager has become the lead plaintiff in a landmark class-action lawsuit to keep hundreds of thousands of Temporary Protected Status immigrants in the U.S.

Oakland voters could approve the state’s first tax on privately owned vacant properties in November.

The Tenderloin is notorious for the homelessness on its streets and open drug use and sales. But it's also one of the only affordable neighborhoods left in San Francisco and is home to hundreds of low-income and immigrant families.

The current debate over the state's immigration policies recalls the bitter battles fought two decades ago, over Proposition 187.