Dozens of young people attended a job fair in Pico Rivera’s senior center Saturday, with about 20 in line to get in before the doors even opened. The 4-hour job fair featured recruiters from a local...

Ever walked out of a grocery store spending zero dollars in groceries? How about buying items worth $816, and only paying a bill of $25? Coupon enthusiasts and others attending a recent extreme couponing...

The packed stands recently at Cal State LA basketball games defied conventional wisdom about the university's athletic events. Most teams struggles to attract fans, according to coaches and others....

As a child, Timothy Maloof loved classical music but his family couldn’t afford lessons for him to learn how to play an instrument. Still, he vowed to someday be a musician. Not only did he achieve...

On a hot Tuesday afternoon in Ontario, California, sunlight streamed into 28-year-old Erin Bartman’s room. “The weather seems like the only good thing happening to me today,” she said. Bartman...

Water, scalding to the touch, poured on her. If only it could go through me. She scrubbed and scrubbed tirelessly at her bare skin, red and raw from the effort. It wasn’t enough. Why can’t I...

Cal State LA student Giselle Velazquez remembers her first Uber experience. It was a hot Spring day in March when she and a friend were standing outside Los Angeles Union Station. “I know parking...

“I really don’t think I’ll ever feel safe.” “I shouldn’t have to feel vulnerable just because I’m a woman.” “I don’t want to feel helpless against men.” These are words from...

Like many undocumented immigrants across the country, Lizbeth Mateo moved to the United States with her family, worked through numerous struggles to acclimate, learned English as a teenager and worked...

Like many students on the Cal State LA campus, Claudia Rueda, 23, was an activist, working to help raise awareness about political issues and immigrants’ rights. But last year, the tables turned and...

To this day, Yamileth Esmeralda Ramos Zavala cannot eat burritos and the smell of chicken makes her gag. That’s because for one month and 10 days, during her 3,000-mile journey to the United States...

Coming into the 2017 soccer season, Cal State LA’s Samuel Croucher was in high form. His training and conditioning, along with his gym workouts, kept him in top shape. In addition, Croucher kept up his...