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Governors, including Jerry Brown, have tried that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Fresno County town of Reedley, Dan Gerawan and his family lay claim to being the nation’s largest growers of peaches, plums and nectarines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerawan also has the distinction of being the target of Cesar Chavez’s last organizing drive, in 1990, before the iconic founder of the United Farm Workers died in 1993. Ever since, Gerawan and the union have been enmeshed in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gerawan-ufw-20150731-story.html\">epic struggle\u003c/a> that has spread from the fields to the California Agriculture Labor Relations Board, the Legislature and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-farmworker-court-20171127-story.html\">courts\u003c/a>. It continues to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 9, Gerawan gave $5,000 to Villaraigosa’s run for governor, one of the few times Gerawan has donated to a Democrat. 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With Republicans only a fourth of California’s voters, a Democrat almost surely will succeed Brown, who is leaving because of term limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are wary of Newsom, the former San Francisco mayor, seeing him as too liberal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Newsom and Villaraigosa raised \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/villaraigosa-raised-a-bundle-in-april-but-then-theres-the-bad-news/\">more than $3 million\u003c/a> between them, their biggest fund-raising month of the campaign. But they are limited by caps on contributions. Not so wealthy individuals beyond the candidates’ control. That became evident recently when Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings and Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad infused an independent, pro-charter-school campaign fund with $8.5 million to benefit Villaraigosa, a supporter of the cause. Expect more in the days ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662952\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800-800x594.jpg\" alt=\"Republican venture capitalist John Cox is running for California governor in 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800-240x178.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800-375x278.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800-520x386.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican venture capitalist John Cox is running for California governor in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Cox Campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, Newsom has a significant lead, followed by Republican businessman John Cox and Villaraigosa, according to the latest poll by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-governor-senate-poll-20180321-story.html\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s paying off. Political action committees representing pistachio growers, berry farmers and dairy operators have given him $20,000 or more each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J.G. Boswell Co., one the state’s largest farmland owners, has given him $50,000. Fresno almond farmer Donald Peracchi chipped in $25,000. Peracchi is president of the Westlands Water District, which supplies water to farms in Fresno and Kings counties, and no issue is more important to farmers than water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Woolf said Villaraigosa spent “two full days” with her Fresno-based farming operation last year, “learning about water and agriculture,” and has returned multiple times since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wasn’t coming with answers. He was coming to listen,” said Woolf, a Republican. Woolf Farming donated $15,000 to his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villaraigosa supports the proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/latest-news/article202823509.html\">Temperance Flat\u003c/a> reservoir east of Fresno and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article51406055.html\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> north of Sacramento, projects embraced by farmers. He opposes the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-delta-tunnel-mwd-20180410-story.html\">Delta tunnel project\u003c/a>, intended to deliver water from the Sacramento River to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, as too divisive. And he calls for a “grand bargain” to end water wars. Governors, including Jerry Brown, have tried that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Fresno County town of Reedley, Dan Gerawan and his family lay claim to being the nation’s largest growers of peaches, plums and nectarines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerawan also has the distinction of being the target of Cesar Chavez’s last organizing drive, in 1990, before the iconic founder of the United Farm Workers died in 1993. Ever since, Gerawan and the union have been enmeshed in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gerawan-ufw-20150731-story.html\">epic struggle\u003c/a> that has spread from the fields to the California Agriculture Labor Relations Board, the Legislature and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-farmworker-court-20171127-story.html\">courts\u003c/a>. It continues to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 9, Gerawan gave $5,000 to Villaraigosa’s run for governor, one of the few times Gerawan has donated to a Democrat. Two weeks later, UFW President Arturo Rodriguez delivered the union’s endorsement of Villaraigosa: “Antonio has consistently stood with and worked with farm workers in good times and tough times over the course of many years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Farmers and workers share a lot of the same goals,” Villaraigosa told CALmatters. “They want a healthy economy and they want the Central Valley to get its fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662948\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Former San Francisco mayor and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, another Democratic candidate for governor and the race's current frontrunner.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Newsom-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco mayor and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, another Democratic candidate for governor and the race’s current front-runner. \u003ccite>(Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Villaraigosa \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1998/aug/02/magazine/tm-9282\">arrived in Sacramento\u003c/a> as a liberal, hardly a go-to legislator for farmers. The first bill he introduced as a freshman assemblyman in 1995 would have raised income taxes on rich people. In another early bill, he aimed to tax bullets. Republicans still had clout in Sacramento then, so neither bill got far. Later, as Assembly speaker, he helped make Chavez’s birthdate a paid holiday for state workers, with votes from several Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers might prefer a Republican as governor. But they can count. With Republicans only a fourth of California’s voters, a Democrat almost surely will succeed Brown, who is leaving because of term limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are wary of Newsom, the former San Francisco mayor, seeing him as too liberal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Newsom and Villaraigosa raised \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/villaraigosa-raised-a-bundle-in-april-but-then-theres-the-bad-news/\">more than $3 million\u003c/a> between them, their biggest fund-raising month of the campaign. But they are limited by caps on contributions. Not so wealthy individuals beyond the candidates’ control. That became evident recently when Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings and Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad infused an independent, pro-charter-school campaign fund with $8.5 million to benefit Villaraigosa, a supporter of the cause. Expect more in the days ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662952\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800-800x594.jpg\" alt=\"Republican venture capitalist John Cox is running for California governor in 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800-240x178.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800-375x278.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cox800-520x386.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican venture capitalist John Cox is running for California governor in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Cox Campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, Newsom has a significant lead, followed by Republican businessman John Cox and Villaraigosa, according to the latest poll by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-governor-senate-poll-20180321-story.html\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>. But many voters are undecided. That’s especially true in the San Joaquin Valley, where 29 percent of the likely voters have not made up their minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No wonder, then, that Villaraigosa, Cox and other leading candidates for governor will appear at a debate later this month in Fresno, though Newsom is skipping it. The race in June is one for second place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor is it surprising that Cox, who lives in the San Diego area, is airing a radio ad in the Central Valley deriding “L.A. Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa.” The ad singles out Villaraigosa’s support for spending “billions on the bullet train.” Cox knows the high-speed rail project being built in the Fresno area is \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_316MBS.pdf\">unpopular in the valley\u003c/a>, particularly among Republicans who might be tempted to vote for Villaraigosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the political elites, the Central Valley is just another whistle stop,” Cox’s ad says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, it is a whistle stop for out-of-town politicians. But for Villaraigosa, it’s also an ATM and, he hopes, a well of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Could the prospect of cleaner streets and sidewalks free of homeless encampments be enough to override L.A.'s history of NIMBYism?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the hope behind a new plan by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to spread $20 million worth of emergency homeless shelters across the city — and simultaneously beef up the Bureau of Sanitation resources traditionally responsible for clearing encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcetti unveiled the proposal \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/04/16/82323/la-mayor-s-state-of-the-city-address-live-with-ann/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during his annual State of the City address\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has approximately 25,000 \"unsheltered\" homeless, living in vehicles, tents or in the open, according to the last tally in January 2017. Officials estimate there are nearly 43,000 unsheltered homeless countywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county estimates it needs more than 3,000 more shelter beds to be able to accommodate everyone — and finding sites for new shelters is a perpetual challenge. Neighborhoods simply don't want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has left the need in places like the San Fernando Valley and L.A.'s West Side quite high, said Matt Szabo, Garcetti's deputy chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan to change that centers around a promise: For any neighborhood that houses one of these new shelters, the city will keep it clear of homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the Plan Would Work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Garcetti is asking the City Council to appropriate about $1.3 million to each of L.A.'s 15 council districts to construct a temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area around the shelter would then become a target zone for enforcement efforts by special LAPD Homeless Outreach and Proactive Engagement (HOPE) teams and Bureau of Sanitation workers who would keep the area clear of encampments. (HOPE teams partner law enforcement with service providers to do outreach and enforcement related to homelessness.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teams from the L.A. Homeless Services Authority and L.A. County Department of Mental Health would conduct outreach in the neighborhood in the runup to the shelters' opening to get as many people into services and housing as possible, according to the mayor's plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once the facilities are open, then those that remain in the encampments will be encouraged to move into the shelter,\" Szabo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his address, Garcetti said anyone who seeks help getting off the streets will get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1180x822.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-960x669.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u003ccite>(Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Some folks will only stay for a few weeks in our new shelters, where we can connect them to a job or a rapid-rehousing voucher. Once they’ve gotten back on their feet, we’ll be able to turn that bed over to someone else ... two, three, four times in a year,\" Garcetti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Other folks could be there for six months before they’re ready to move somewhere permanent. But everybody will get the help that they need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city would then determine and post a date by which homeless people would either have to move into the shelter or leave the neighborhood, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the enforcement begins, the encampment will be removed, and we will not allow for re-encampment in those targeted areas,\" Szabo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if the mayor is confident the plan complies with L.A.'s various settlement agreements regarding the rights of homeless people, Szabo said the mayor's office has been working with the L.A. City Attorney's Office on the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of how enforcement would work and what radius around the shelter would be an encampment-free zone is still under discussion, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fund enforcement, Garcetti is proposing a $29 million boost in homelessness spending related to city departments in the coming fiscal year, $17 million of which would go to the Bureau of Sanitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of LAPD officers paired with these teams (40 citywide) would remain the same as in the last fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662876\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"LAPD officers patrol on bicycles past a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-1200x756.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-1180x743.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-960x605.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-520x327.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LAPD officers patrol on bicycles past a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What Would These Shelters Look Like and Where Would They Be?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposed shelters are intended to be temporary, meaning lasting up to three years, and could take many forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're looking at tent structures, we're looking at trailers,\" Szabo said. \"There may be some instances where we use an existing building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelters would be administered by the L.A. Homeless Services Authority, likely through contracts with community providers. Any on-site services would ideally be paid for by L.A. County, he said, adding that the city is in talks with the county to determine whether funds from Measure H, a new sales tax, could pay for services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simultaneously, the city has been working with the state to establish \"alternative minimum health and safety standards\" to apply to the temporary shelters, which would relieve the structures of some of the need to conform to building and fire safety codes, said Szabo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for such standards and any zoning changes and other red tape would be substantially reduced if the L.A. City Council enacts an emergency declaration regarding homelessness. The council is expected to take up such a declaration on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for siting, Szabo said no council district or neighborhood would be forced to open a shelter against the community's wishes. Neighborhood councils would be involved in locating sites. And the district's city council representative would still have the ability to nix any project, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But should a council district not use its funds in short order, it would lose access to them, and to the promise of stepped-up encampment cleanups, Szabo noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money could potentially fund up to 100 beds in each council district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-800x498.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless woman stands in front of her tent near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on June 20, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-800x498.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-1020x635.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-1200x747.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-1180x734.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-960x598.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-520x324.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless woman stands in front of her tent near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on June 20, 2017. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Wait, That's Nowhere Near Enough to Shelter L.A.'s Homeless\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\"The need is enormous. This is a start,\" Szabo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city, he said, is hoping for financial help from the state to expand the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcetti was recently in Sacramento to help lobby for the passage of AB 3171, a bill that would create $1.5 billion in block grants for localities to spend on addressing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, introduced by Assembly Member Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), is scheduled to go before the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If AB 3171 becomes law, Szabo said Garcetti's plan could work as a model for rolling those funds out in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Nowhere Near Enough': Homeless Advocates Respond\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Andy Bales, CEO of the Union Rescue Mission, said Mayor Garcetti's proposal is a good first step, but that more needs to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[This plan] is nowhere near what I would hope for, nowhere near what the Urban Land Institute called for,\" he said. \"These are experts from all around the country who came and consulted with the leaders of Los Angeles, and it's nowhere near enough for people who are suffering on the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Land Institute recently recommended that L.A. build 60 shelters across the city, which would be four in each district, not one, Bales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, building shelters in more neighborhoods would be a positive change, he said, because it could be a step to help get more people into shelters and off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having a shelter in your own neighborhood to go to when you lose your housing rather than having to go to the mean streets of skid row, that would help immensely,\" Bales said. \"And wouldn't we as neighbors rather say yes to shelter and accountability and care, rather than saying no, not in my backyard? Yes to people being under a roof instead of leaving people on the streets to suffer?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, finding shelter sites has been a challenge around Southern California because many neighborhoods don't want them, so the opinions of residents across L.A. are a potential concern for Garcetti's new plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Ko, director of Homeless Initiatives for United Way of Greater Los Angeles, said his organization's polling shows that L.A. residents actually do support more shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people understand that other solutions are just temporary and patchworks. People that we've spoken to, as long as they know that there's a plan and that there's something that is more holistic that will move people inside, that's what our residents are really asking for at the end of the day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea of a more holistic, permanent solution to homelessness is something that should be incorporated into this plan and the shelters being built, Ko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we need to make sure is that every single bed constructed has a connection to permanent housing. We've started calling these solutions bridge housing because we want them to connect to the next step of exiting homelessness. Unless every bed has a connection to a permanent exit, they become bridges to nowhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ko said that means having enough permanent housing to accommodate everyone in shelters later moving to a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Could the prospect of cleaner streets and sidewalks free of homeless encampments be enough to override L.A.'s history of NIMBYism?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the hope behind a new plan by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to spread $20 million worth of emergency homeless shelters across the city — and simultaneously beef up the Bureau of Sanitation resources traditionally responsible for clearing encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcetti unveiled the proposal \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/04/16/82323/la-mayor-s-state-of-the-city-address-live-with-ann/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during his annual State of the City address\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has approximately 25,000 \"unsheltered\" homeless, living in vehicles, tents or in the open, according to the last tally in January 2017. Officials estimate there are nearly 43,000 unsheltered homeless countywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county estimates it needs more than 3,000 more shelter beds to be able to accommodate everyone — and finding sites for new shelters is a perpetual challenge. Neighborhoods simply don't want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has left the need in places like the San Fernando Valley and L.A.'s West Side quite high, said Matt Szabo, Garcetti's deputy chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan to change that centers around a promise: For any neighborhood that houses one of these new shelters, the city will keep it clear of homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the Plan Would Work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Garcetti is asking the City Council to appropriate about $1.3 million to each of L.A.'s 15 council districts to construct a temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area around the shelter would then become a target zone for enforcement efforts by special LAPD Homeless Outreach and Proactive Engagement (HOPE) teams and Bureau of Sanitation workers who would keep the area clear of encampments. (HOPE teams partner law enforcement with service providers to do outreach and enforcement related to homelessness.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teams from the L.A. Homeless Services Authority and L.A. County Department of Mental Health would conduct outreach in the neighborhood in the runup to the shelters' opening to get as many people into services and housing as possible, according to the mayor's plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once the facilities are open, then those that remain in the encampments will be encouraged to move into the shelter,\" Szabo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his address, Garcetti said anyone who seeks help getting off the streets will get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1180x822.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-960x669.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u003ccite>(Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Some folks will only stay for a few weeks in our new shelters, where we can connect them to a job or a rapid-rehousing voucher. Once they’ve gotten back on their feet, we’ll be able to turn that bed over to someone else ... two, three, four times in a year,\" Garcetti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Other folks could be there for six months before they’re ready to move somewhere permanent. But everybody will get the help that they need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city would then determine and post a date by which homeless people would either have to move into the shelter or leave the neighborhood, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the enforcement begins, the encampment will be removed, and we will not allow for re-encampment in those targeted areas,\" Szabo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if the mayor is confident the plan complies with L.A.'s various settlement agreements regarding the rights of homeless people, Szabo said the mayor's office has been working with the L.A. City Attorney's Office on the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of how enforcement would work and what radius around the shelter would be an encampment-free zone is still under discussion, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fund enforcement, Garcetti is proposing a $29 million boost in homelessness spending related to city departments in the coming fiscal year, $17 million of which would go to the Bureau of Sanitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of LAPD officers paired with these teams (40 citywide) would remain the same as in the last fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662876\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"LAPD officers patrol on bicycles past a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-1200x756.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-1180x743.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-960x605.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/PoliceRidePast-520x327.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LAPD officers patrol on bicycles past a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What Would These Shelters Look Like and Where Would They Be?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposed shelters are intended to be temporary, meaning lasting up to three years, and could take many forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're looking at tent structures, we're looking at trailers,\" Szabo said. \"There may be some instances where we use an existing building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelters would be administered by the L.A. Homeless Services Authority, likely through contracts with community providers. Any on-site services would ideally be paid for by L.A. County, he said, adding that the city is in talks with the county to determine whether funds from Measure H, a new sales tax, could pay for services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simultaneously, the city has been working with the state to establish \"alternative minimum health and safety standards\" to apply to the temporary shelters, which would relieve the structures of some of the need to conform to building and fire safety codes, said Szabo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for such standards and any zoning changes and other red tape would be substantially reduced if the L.A. City Council enacts an emergency declaration regarding homelessness. The council is expected to take up such a declaration on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for siting, Szabo said no council district or neighborhood would be forced to open a shelter against the community's wishes. Neighborhood councils would be involved in locating sites. And the district's city council representative would still have the ability to nix any project, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But should a council district not use its funds in short order, it would lose access to them, and to the promise of stepped-up encampment cleanups, Szabo noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money could potentially fund up to 100 beds in each council district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-800x498.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless woman stands in front of her tent near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on June 20, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-800x498.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-1020x635.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-1200x747.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-1180x734.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-960x598.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/LAHomeless-520x324.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless woman stands in front of her tent near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on June 20, 2017. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Wait, That's Nowhere Near Enough to Shelter L.A.'s Homeless\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\"The need is enormous. This is a start,\" Szabo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city, he said, is hoping for financial help from the state to expand the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcetti was recently in Sacramento to help lobby for the passage of AB 3171, a bill that would create $1.5 billion in block grants for localities to spend on addressing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, introduced by Assembly Member Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), is scheduled to go before the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If AB 3171 becomes law, Szabo said Garcetti's plan could work as a model for rolling those funds out in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Nowhere Near Enough': Homeless Advocates Respond\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Andy Bales, CEO of the Union Rescue Mission, said Mayor Garcetti's proposal is a good first step, but that more needs to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[This plan] is nowhere near what I would hope for, nowhere near what the Urban Land Institute called for,\" he said. \"These are experts from all around the country who came and consulted with the leaders of Los Angeles, and it's nowhere near enough for people who are suffering on the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Land Institute recently recommended that L.A. build 60 shelters across the city, which would be four in each district, not one, Bales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, building shelters in more neighborhoods would be a positive change, he said, because it could be a step to help get more people into shelters and off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having a shelter in your own neighborhood to go to when you lose your housing rather than having to go to the mean streets of skid row, that would help immensely,\" Bales said. \"And wouldn't we as neighbors rather say yes to shelter and accountability and care, rather than saying no, not in my backyard? Yes to people being under a roof instead of leaving people on the streets to suffer?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, finding shelter sites has been a challenge around Southern California because many neighborhoods don't want them, so the opinions of residents across L.A. are a potential concern for Garcetti's new plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Ko, director of Homeless Initiatives for United Way of Greater Los Angeles, said his organization's polling shows that L.A. residents actually do support more shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people understand that other solutions are just temporary and patchworks. People that we've spoken to, as long as they know that there's a plan and that there's something that is more holistic that will move people inside, that's what our residents are really asking for at the end of the day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea of a more holistic, permanent solution to homelessness is something that should be incorporated into this plan and the shelters being built, Ko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we need to make sure is that every single bed constructed has a connection to permanent housing. We've started calling these solutions bridge housing because we want them to connect to the next step of exiting homelessness. Unless every bed has a connection to a permanent exit, they become bridges to nowhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">revealnews.org\u003c/a> and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/podcast\">revealnews.org/podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nside Tesla’s electric car factory, giant red robots – some named for X-Men characters – heave car parts in the air, while workers wearing black toil on aluminum car bodies. Forklifts and tuggers zip by on gray-painted floors, differentiated from pedestrian walkways by another shade of gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s one color, though, that some of Tesla’s former safety experts wanted to see more of: yellow – the traditional hue of caution used to mark hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned about bone-crunching collisions and the lack of clearly marked pedestrian lanes at the Fremont, California, plant, the general assembly line’s then-lead safety professional went to her boss, who she said told her, “Elon does not like the color yellow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The melding of cutting-edge technology and world-saving vision is Tesla Inc.’s big draw. Many, including Justine White, the safety lead, went to work there inspired by Elon Musk, a CEO with star power and now a\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2018/feb/07/forget-the-car-in-space-why-elon-musks-reusable-rockets-are-more-than-a-publicity-stunt\"> groundbreaking rocket\u003c/a> in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she and some of her colleagues found, they said, was a chaotic factory floor where style and speed trumped safety. Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down concerns, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under fire for mounting injuries, Tesla recently\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\"> touted a sharp drop\u003c/a> in its injury rate for 2017, which it says came down to meet the auto industry average of about 6.2 injuries per 100 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are not always as they seem at Tesla. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books\">investigation\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a> from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that Tesla has failed to report some of its serious injuries on legally mandated reports, making the company’s injury numbers look better than they actually are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1020x782.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1180x904.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-960x736.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-240x184.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-375x287.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-520x399.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2.png 1190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, Tarik Logan suffered debilitating headaches from the fumes of a toxic glue he had to use at the plant. He texted his mom: “I’m n hella pain foreal something ain’t right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The searing pain became so unbearable he couldn’t work, and it plagued him for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Logan’s inhalation injury, as it was diagnosed, never made it onto the official injury logs that state and federal law requires companies to keep. Neither did reports from other factory workers of sprains, strains and repetitive stress injuries from piecing together Tesla’s sleek cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, company officials labeled the injuries personal medical issues or minor incidents requiring only first aid, according to internal company records obtained by Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undercounting injuries is one symptom of a more fundamental problem at Tesla: The company has put its manufacturing of electric cars above safety concerns, according to five former members of its environment, health and safety team who left the company last year. That, they said, has put workers unnecessarily in harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, White said she warned superiors about a potential explosion hazard but was told they would defer to production managers because fixing the problem would require stopping the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From September 2016 to January 2017, White oversaw safety for thousands of workers on Tesla’s general assembly line, in charge of responding to injuries, reviewing injury records, teaching safety classes and assessing the factory for hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything took a back seat to production,” White said. “It’s just a matter of time before somebody gets killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, worth about $50 billion, employs more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory. Alongside the company’s remarkable rise, workers have been sliced by machinery, crushed by forklifts, burned in electrical explosions and sprayed with molten metal. Tesla recorded \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419499-Tesla-300A-2017.html\">722 injuries\u003c/a> last year, about two a day. The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous year’s industry average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frantic growth, constant changes and lax rules, combined with a CEO whom senior managers were afraid to cross, created an atmosphere in which few dared to stand up for worker safety, the former environment, health and safety team members told Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in addition to yellow, Musk was said to dislike too many signs in the factory and the warning beeps forklifts make when backing up, former team members said. His preferences, they said, were well known and led to cutting back on those standard safety signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone said, ‘Elon doesn’t like something,’ you were concerned because you could lose your job,” said Susan Rigmaiden, former environmental compliance manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months into her job, White became so alarmed that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419515-Justine-Email-to-HR.html\">wrote\u003c/a> to a human resources manager that “the risk of injury is too high. People are getting hurt every day and near-hit incidents where people are getting almost crushed or hit by cars is unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4416595-Justine-White-Email-to-Sam-Teller.html\">emailed\u003c/a> Sam Teller, Musk’s chief of staff, that safety team leaders were failing to address the hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she never heard back from Musk’s office. She transferred departments and quit a couple of months later, disillusioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her March 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4437759-Resignation-Letter-Excerpt.html\">resignation letter,\u003c/a> White recounted the time she told her boss, Seth Woody, “that the plant layout was extremely dangerous to pedestrians.” Woody, head of the safety team, told her “that Elon didn’t want signs, anything yellow (like caution tape) or to wear safety shoes in the plant” and acknowledged it “was a mess,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent the letter directly to Musk and the head of human resources at the time – to no response, she said. Woody did not respond to inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla officials dismissed all of White’s concerns as unsubstantiated. They insisted that the company records injuries accurately and cares deeply about the safety of its workers. As proof, company officials said a recent anonymous internal survey found 82 percent of employees agreed that “Tesla is committed to my health, safety and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before publication of this story, a Tesla spokesman sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432415-Tesla-Statement.html\">statement\u003c/a> accusing Reveal of being a tool in an ongoing unionization drive and portraying “a completely false picture of Tesla and what it is actually like to work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our view, what they portray as investigative journalism is in fact an ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s spokesman also sent photos of rails and posts in the factory that were painted yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal interviewed more than three dozen current and former employees and managers and reviewed hundreds of pages of documents. Some of the workers who spoke to Reveal have supported the unionization effort, while many others – including safety professionals – had no involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Chaotic Factory Floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On one hand, Tesla boasts state-of-the-art machinery that makes it “like working for Iron Man,” as one former employee described it. On the other, the company relied on hoists that weren’t engineered or inspected before they were used to lift heavy car parts, according to a former safety team member, resulting in repeated accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1200x794.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-960x635.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company is under immense pressure to ramp up manufacturing of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. Musk initially said Tesla would be producing\u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/2017/10/03/tesla-model-3-production-woes-analysis/#KH37hHQFemqw\"> 20,000 of them per month\u003c/a> by the end of 2017, but the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/04/03/tesla-misses-model-3-production-goal-once-again/?utm_term=.6679155b2d34\">just missed\u003c/a> its scaled-back promise to produce half that number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is often in a state of frenzied production. Former employees said they faced 12-hour workdays, faulty equipment and paltry training as they scrambled to come up with workarounds on the fly to get cars out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hustle meant that health and safety protocols could literally get left in the dust. Last year, construction workers cut through concrete to build the new Model 3 assembly line, spreading silica dust – which can cause cancer – without containing and testing it first, Rigmaiden and two other former members of the health and safety team said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the high stakes for life and limb, the safety professionals maintain safety training has been woefully inadequate. The company said all workers receive at least four days of training. But new employees often were pulled out of training early to fill spots on the factory floor, White and another former safety team member said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Team members were reluctant to speak to reporters, but said they agreed to in order to help improve conditions for current and future Tesla workers. Some asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals or hurting their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Tesla Chief People Officer Gaby Toledano, who joined the company in May, repeatedly questioned the motives of the former health and safety professionals and suggested they might have been “failing at their own job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano touted the hiring in October of Laurie Shelby as Tesla’s first vice president for environment, health and safety as an improvement in itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who walks through our doors into this factory is our responsibility, and we care about them,” said Shelby, formerly safety vice president at aluminum manufacturer Alcoa. “I have a passion for safety and it’s about caring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla disputed each of Reveal’s findings. The company said that it had no information that workers were exposed to silica dust and that it does regular air monitoring. It said that while some hoists did fail and injure workers, it was not due to a lack of engineering or inspections, and they have been improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Toledano and Shelby said they had never heard of Musk’s purported aesthetic preferences and pointed out that the factory does have some yellow. Both distanced themselves from what might have happened before their tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all injured workers have given up on Tesla, either. Dennis Cruz has had his share of injuries, yet he still wants to get back to the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, out on workers’ compensation because of work-induced tendinitis, Cruz ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. Then, in late 2016, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436216-SDS-BM4601.html\">toxic\u003c/a> adhesive many workers complain about got in his eye, damaging his cornea. And in September, as a quality inspector, Cruz says he put out a fire that broke out on a car body, inhaling fumes from burning chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz, 42, is on light duty as he struggles with shortness of breath, coughing spells and headaches. But he wants to provide for his family, apply his skills and get promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t do that on workers’ comp. I can’t do that away from the factory,” he said. “That’s why I push to go back. I push to go back into the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discrepancies in Injury Counts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Tesla’s internal injury tracking system, a supervisor wrote that a worker couldn’t come to work one day in February 2017 because “his left arm was in pain from installing Wiper motors during his shift.” One worker “fainted and hit head on floor” because “team member was working in a group setting and became uncomfortably hot.” Another employee, a supervisor noted, was “highly relied upon at this workstation” but injured her shoulder from repetitive motion due to an “Unfriendly Ergonomic Process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is required by law to report every work-related injury that results in days away from work, job restrictions or medical treatment beyond first aid. But those injuries were labeled “personal medical” cases, meaning work had nothing to do with them. So they weren’t counted when Tesla tallied its injuries on legally mandated reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The list of the uncounted goes on. One worker had back spasms when reaching for boxes, one sprained her back carrying something to a work table and one got a pinch in his back from bending over to apply sealer and couldn’t walk off the pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, if something at work contributed to an injury – even if work wasn’t the only cause – the injury \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/14300_5.html\">must be counted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former Tesla safety professional, however, said the company systematically undercounted injuries by mislabeling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw injuries on there like broken bones and lacerations that they were saying were not recordable” as injuries, said the safety professional, who asked to remain anonymous. “I saw a lot of stuff that was like, ‘Wow, this is crazy.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal compared records from Tesla’s internal tracking system, obtained from a source, with the official logs, which were requested by an employee and provided to Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a dozen examples provided to the company by Reveal, Tesla stood by its decision to not count them. It said workers may have thought they were injured because of their jobs, and supervisors may have assumed the same. But later, Tesla said, a medical professional – sometimes contracted or affiliated with the company – determined there was no connection to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very strongly,” Shelby said. “We are doing proper recordkeeping here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal also provided Tesla’s internal descriptions of the injuries, along with the company’s case-by-case response, to Doug Parker, executive director of Worksafe, an Oakland-based organization that \u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.typepad.com/files/worksafe_tesla5_24.pdf\">previously analyzed\u003c/a> Tesla’s official injury logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The examples you’ve given me are concerning, troubling,” he said. “They suggest that Tesla isn’t reporting all the workplace injuries that they should be reporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the podcast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/429374469&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited Tesla for more than 40 violations since 2013. Tesla’s rate of serious injuries that required time off or job restrictions was\u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.org/file_download/inline/83a169a1-2af7-4c2e-81a5-21b6965ff996\"> 83 percent higher\u003c/a> than the industry in 2016. Since then, however, Tesla says it has turned things around on its way to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\">becoming the safest car factory in the world\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Musk claimed in a \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/24/elon-musk-addresses-working-condition-claims-in-tesla-staff-wide-email/\">staffwide email\u003c/a> and at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/06/elon-musk-says-tesla-is-on-its-way-to-lowering-employees-injury-rate/\">shareholder meeting\u003c/a> that the company’s injury rate was much better than the industry average. A company \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/creating-the-safest-car-factory-in-the-world\">blog post\u003c/a> said that to be average would be “to go backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Tesla apparently did hit reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our 2017 data showed that we are at industry average, so we’re happy about that,” Shelby said, explaining the earlier claims as a “snapshot in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk also \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2017/06/02/elon-musk-tesla-injury-factory/\">emailed\u003c/a> his staff last year saying he was meeting weekly with the safety team and “would like to meet every injured person as soon as they are well, so that I can understand from them exactly what we need to do to make it better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano said Musk did meet with some injured workers, but no longer meets weekly with the safety team because it isn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I can’t claim he’s met with every injured worker,” she said. “I think that’s absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former members of the environment, health and safety team said they had other reasons to doubt Tesla’s official numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, for example, didn’t always count injuries among the plant’s temporary workers, they said. Tesla fills some of its factory positions with temp workers who later may be offered permanent jobs. Companies must count those injuries if they supervise the temps, as Tesla does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the law,” agreed Tesla’s Shelby. “Based on my review of our data, we’ve always done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At one point, though, White said she asked her supervisor why the injury rate seemed off, and he told her they weren’t counting temp worker injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew they were reporting incorrect numbers,” White said. “Those workers were being injured on the floor and that wasn’t being captured, and they knew that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla began to fix that problem in 2017, former employees said, but it’s unclear how consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1020x684.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1200x805.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1180x792.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-960x644.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-240x161.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-375x252.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-520x349.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final.png 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After workers requested the company’s injury logs last year, Tesla\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419502-Tesla-300A-2016-Amended.html\"> amended\u003c/a> its\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419503-Tesla-300A-2016-initial.html\"> original\u003c/a> 2016 report to add 135 injuries that hadn’t been counted previously. The company said it changed the numbers after it discovered injuries that hadn’t been shared with Tesla by its temp agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Toxic Workplace Chemicals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In April 2017, Tarik Logan – a temporary worker – was assigned to patch parts in Tesla’s battery packs with Henkel Loctite AA H3500. The powerful adhesive includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/methyl-methacrylate.pdf\">toxic chemicals\u003c/a> that can cause \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433392-LoctiteH3500-SDS-1808799.html\">allergic reactions and even genetic defects\u003c/a>. Logan and a former co-worker said they went through more than 100 tubes of the glue a day without adequate ventilation or protection from the fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First it brought dizziness, then headaches – the worst pain he’s ever felt, Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a strong person,” said Toni Porter, his mother. “For him to cry out, it was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla referred Logan, then 23, to a medical clinic that diagnosed an “acute reaction to car adhesive glue causing headaches, dizziness, and some respiratory discomfort.” The doctor gave him prescription-strength painkillers and told him to avoid the glue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My head still hurt tho,” he texted Porter. “This Shit hurrrrrts!!!!!!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These texts are among those sent by Tarik Logan to his mother, Toni Porter, while Logan worked at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California in April 2017:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://www.revealnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/texts34.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He missed work and ended up at the hospital multiple times, Logan and Porter said. Then Tesla declined to take him on as a permanent employee, citing attendance issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, in response to Reveal’s inquiries, said it doesn’t agree with the doctor’s determination that Logan’s pain was work-related. In any case, Tesla said, it doesn’t count as an injury because it didn’t require any medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, however, just the prescription of pain medication – documented in medical records obtained by Reveal – \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2007-02-06-1\">requires\u003c/a> that his injury be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan handled only a very small amount of the chemical and exposure levels were within standards, Tesla stated. The company also said Logan didn’t complain about headaches until he told a doctor a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That statement is contradicted by medical records and internal company records, which show that Logan’s supervisor put it in Tesla’s injury tracking system and Logan was diagnosed by a doctor a week after his headaches started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former safety team member who asked to remain anonymous said Tesla told workers that their reactions to workplace chemicals were personal medical problems instead of treating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have employees at work that don’t know what they’re being exposed to, and nobody’s taking care of them,” the safety professional said. “It’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-960x637.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-520x345.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One worker is described in internal records as having gone to Tesla’s nurse “expressing concerns with the fumes in the area. Saying he feels like he is dying.” It was marked a personal medical issue, with a note that stated, “Beyond my skillset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby, the safety vice president, said Tesla checks thoroughly for chemical exposures and “nowhere are we over any of the exposure limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4390644-Inspection-1268303-Citations-Copy.html\">cited\u003c/a> the company for failing to “effectively assess the workplace” for chemical hazards, which Tesla is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Thrown to the Wolves’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Tesla has been improving, it wasn’t fast enough for Alaa Alkhafagi, who joined Tesla in 2017 as an engineering technician servicing robots that spray paint on car bodies. Alkhafagi said he received no safety instruction specific to the paint department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Alkhafagi, 27, said he was told to go underneath the painting booth to clear excess paint from a clogged hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsure of how to get down there, workers would pry up a piece of the metal flooring and jump in, he said. When he did, Alkhafagi’s foot got stuck in paint, his hand slipped and he fell forward, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436269-Alkhafagi-Injury.html\">smashing\u003c/a> his head and arm. He ended up unable to make a fist or go back to his job, filing a workers’ compensation claim, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident didn’t end up on Tesla’s official injury logs. The company said it wasn’t recorded because Alkhafagi initially received only first aid. But his inability to go back to his normal work duties would mean that the injury should have been counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than the accident,” Alkhafagi said. “They haven’t trained anyone properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla said that after his injury, the company made sure only specially trained workers did that job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of adequate training was a problem throughout the factory, said Roger Croney, who oversaw workers in three different departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New employees with no factory experience were sent to Tesla’s die-casting operation – where aluminum is melted and molded into parts – without basic training specific to the job, said Croney, former associate manager in that department. Some didn’t know they’d be working with 1,200-degree molten metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was far different from the General Motors plant in Ohio where Croney had worked for eight years, he said. So Croney took it upon himself to develop his own training program. A blast of liquid metal had burned his face and hands not long after he came to Tesla in 2012, and he took safety seriously. But other supervisors didn’t, Croney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \u003ccite>(AJ Mast/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of workers come in and they get thrown to the wolves,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Croney quit in March 2017 with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432391-Roger-Croney-Resignation-Letter.html\">letter\u003c/a> alleging a pattern of discriminatory treatment. Croney, who is black, said he was passed over repeatedly by white people with less experience and then demoted to a supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Tesla said Croney didn’t mention racial discrimination in his letter or exit interview. Croney has a pending claim of racial discrimination at Tesla with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year, according to a Reveal review of records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla defended its training regimen, saying all new production employees get a day of orientation, a day of classroom instruction and two days of hands-on training in which they’re shown how to hold and use tools while avoiding injury. Workers building the Model 3 get an additional two days of virtual training on computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four days is pretty intensive,” Toledano said, “and then there’s ongoing training, so training is central.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Repetitive Stress Injuries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that repetitive stress injuries are the most common way workers get hurt there, Tesla officials emphasize ergonomic improvements to the new Model 3 assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually redesigned it so it’s safer for our employees to make,” Shelby said. “It’s super cool to see when it’s on the line how much easier it is to make the Model 3.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, however, wouldn’t let reporters see that assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-960x633.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-375x247.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When building Tesla’s other cars, former workers said they had to sacrifice their bodies to save time. Some workers, for example, lifted heavy car seats over their shoulders because the mechanical assists designed to ease the load were too slow, said Joel Barraza, a former production associate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would carry a seat because they’d be like, ‘Oh, I gotta get this done.’ I personally carried a seat,” Barraza said. “They’re supposed to move. Move it on, move it on, keep the line going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, the former safety lead, also said workers sometimes lifted seats manually, but Tesla, in a statement, said it doesn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he was fired along with hundreds of other workers last fall. Tesla said employees were\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/\"> terminated en masse\u003c/a> due to performance issues, though some workers have argued they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/tesla-firings-former-and-current-employees-allege-layoffs.html\">cost-cutting layoffs\u003c/a> or used to \u003ca href=\"http://www.autonews.com/article/20171026/OEM01/171029793/tesla-uaw-labor-dispute-california\">punish union supporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he and others hurt their backs through repetitive movements, but few complained because “supervisors would be like, ‘Oh, he’s just being a little bitch.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ accounts from 2017 didn’t sound much different from those who were injured years earlier. In 2014, Mark Eberley was diagnosed with Tesla-induced carpal tunnel syndrome. He wrecked his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days, he said. He needed surgery and was out of work and on workers’ compensation for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what we were doing, it was hustle, hustle, hustle,” he said. “If you didn’t get your numbers, they’d be complaining to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressure could be crushing for white-collar workers as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his office job at the Fremont factory, senior analyst Ali Khan prepared Tesla’s financial filings required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2016, the office was understaffed, and he worked at least 12 hours every day, he said – no weekends, holidays or days off at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain from repetitive motion started in his wrists, radiated up his arms, then to his neck and back. He said he would have trouble holding a glass of water and couldn’t play with his 1-year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said he asked for an ergonomic evaluation, but Tesla’s safety team told his manager they were too busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My boss is telling me, ‘Oh, if you are going to take time off, it’s going to slow us down, it’s going to affect your reviews,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla eventually sent him to one of its preferred health clinics. A doctor there diagnosed him with work-related muscle strains and tendinitis, repeatedly prescribing painkillers and work restrictions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433386-Khan-Medical-Records.html\">medical records show\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant Khan had to be listed on Tesla’s injury logs. He wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said he still wasn’t allowed the doctor-ordered breaks. Forfeiting lucrative stock options, he submitted his resignation in August 2016. But his body hasn’t recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things were preventable – that’s what makes me upset,” he said. “All of this could have been addressed, and it just wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"ctx-article-root\">\u003c!-- -->\u003c/span> \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"pixel-ping-tracker\" src=\"https://pixel.revealnews.org/pixel.gif?key=pixel.3rdrevnews.tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books.htkl4vtololw22goiwba\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she and some of her colleagues found, they said, was a chaotic factory floor where style and speed trumped safety. Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down concerns, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under fire for mounting injuries, Tesla recently\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\"> touted a sharp drop\u003c/a> in its injury rate for 2017, which it says came down to meet the auto industry average of about 6.2 injuries per 100 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are not always as they seem at Tesla. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books\">investigation\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a> from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that Tesla has failed to report some of its serious injuries on legally mandated reports, making the company’s injury numbers look better than they actually are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1020x782.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1180x904.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-960x736.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-240x184.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-375x287.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-520x399.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2.png 1190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, Tarik Logan suffered debilitating headaches from the fumes of a toxic glue he had to use at the plant. He texted his mom: “I’m n hella pain foreal something ain’t right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The searing pain became so unbearable he couldn’t work, and it plagued him for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Logan’s inhalation injury, as it was diagnosed, never made it onto the official injury logs that state and federal law requires companies to keep. Neither did reports from other factory workers of sprains, strains and repetitive stress injuries from piecing together Tesla’s sleek cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, company officials labeled the injuries personal medical issues or minor incidents requiring only first aid, according to internal company records obtained by Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undercounting injuries is one symptom of a more fundamental problem at Tesla: The company has put its manufacturing of electric cars above safety concerns, according to five former members of its environment, health and safety team who left the company last year. That, they said, has put workers unnecessarily in harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, White said she warned superiors about a potential explosion hazard but was told they would defer to production managers because fixing the problem would require stopping the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From September 2016 to January 2017, White oversaw safety for thousands of workers on Tesla’s general assembly line, in charge of responding to injuries, reviewing injury records, teaching safety classes and assessing the factory for hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything took a back seat to production,” White said. “It’s just a matter of time before somebody gets killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, worth about $50 billion, employs more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory. Alongside the company’s remarkable rise, workers have been sliced by machinery, crushed by forklifts, burned in electrical explosions and sprayed with molten metal. Tesla recorded \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419499-Tesla-300A-2017.html\">722 injuries\u003c/a> last year, about two a day. The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous year’s industry average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frantic growth, constant changes and lax rules, combined with a CEO whom senior managers were afraid to cross, created an atmosphere in which few dared to stand up for worker safety, the former environment, health and safety team members told Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in addition to yellow, Musk was said to dislike too many signs in the factory and the warning beeps forklifts make when backing up, former team members said. His preferences, they said, were well known and led to cutting back on those standard safety signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone said, ‘Elon doesn’t like something,’ you were concerned because you could lose your job,” said Susan Rigmaiden, former environmental compliance manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months into her job, White became so alarmed that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419515-Justine-Email-to-HR.html\">wrote\u003c/a> to a human resources manager that “the risk of injury is too high. People are getting hurt every day and near-hit incidents where people are getting almost crushed or hit by cars is unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4416595-Justine-White-Email-to-Sam-Teller.html\">emailed\u003c/a> Sam Teller, Musk’s chief of staff, that safety team leaders were failing to address the hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she never heard back from Musk’s office. She transferred departments and quit a couple of months later, disillusioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her March 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4437759-Resignation-Letter-Excerpt.html\">resignation letter,\u003c/a> White recounted the time she told her boss, Seth Woody, “that the plant layout was extremely dangerous to pedestrians.” Woody, head of the safety team, told her “that Elon didn’t want signs, anything yellow (like caution tape) or to wear safety shoes in the plant” and acknowledged it “was a mess,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent the letter directly to Musk and the head of human resources at the time – to no response, she said. Woody did not respond to inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla officials dismissed all of White’s concerns as unsubstantiated. They insisted that the company records injuries accurately and cares deeply about the safety of its workers. As proof, company officials said a recent anonymous internal survey found 82 percent of employees agreed that “Tesla is committed to my health, safety and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before publication of this story, a Tesla spokesman sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432415-Tesla-Statement.html\">statement\u003c/a> accusing Reveal of being a tool in an ongoing unionization drive and portraying “a completely false picture of Tesla and what it is actually like to work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our view, what they portray as investigative journalism is in fact an ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s spokesman also sent photos of rails and posts in the factory that were painted yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal interviewed more than three dozen current and former employees and managers and reviewed hundreds of pages of documents. Some of the workers who spoke to Reveal have supported the unionization effort, while many others – including safety professionals – had no involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Chaotic Factory Floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On one hand, Tesla boasts state-of-the-art machinery that makes it “like working for Iron Man,” as one former employee described it. On the other, the company relied on hoists that weren’t engineered or inspected before they were used to lift heavy car parts, according to a former safety team member, resulting in repeated accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1200x794.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-960x635.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company is under immense pressure to ramp up manufacturing of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. Musk initially said Tesla would be producing\u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/2017/10/03/tesla-model-3-production-woes-analysis/#KH37hHQFemqw\"> 20,000 of them per month\u003c/a> by the end of 2017, but the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/04/03/tesla-misses-model-3-production-goal-once-again/?utm_term=.6679155b2d34\">just missed\u003c/a> its scaled-back promise to produce half that number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is often in a state of frenzied production. Former employees said they faced 12-hour workdays, faulty equipment and paltry training as they scrambled to come up with workarounds on the fly to get cars out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hustle meant that health and safety protocols could literally get left in the dust. Last year, construction workers cut through concrete to build the new Model 3 assembly line, spreading silica dust – which can cause cancer – without containing and testing it first, Rigmaiden and two other former members of the health and safety team said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the high stakes for life and limb, the safety professionals maintain safety training has been woefully inadequate. The company said all workers receive at least four days of training. But new employees often were pulled out of training early to fill spots on the factory floor, White and another former safety team member said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Team members were reluctant to speak to reporters, but said they agreed to in order to help improve conditions for current and future Tesla workers. Some asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals or hurting their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Tesla Chief People Officer Gaby Toledano, who joined the company in May, repeatedly questioned the motives of the former health and safety professionals and suggested they might have been “failing at their own job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano touted the hiring in October of Laurie Shelby as Tesla’s first vice president for environment, health and safety as an improvement in itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who walks through our doors into this factory is our responsibility, and we care about them,” said Shelby, formerly safety vice president at aluminum manufacturer Alcoa. “I have a passion for safety and it’s about caring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla disputed each of Reveal’s findings. The company said that it had no information that workers were exposed to silica dust and that it does regular air monitoring. It said that while some hoists did fail and injure workers, it was not due to a lack of engineering or inspections, and they have been improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Toledano and Shelby said they had never heard of Musk’s purported aesthetic preferences and pointed out that the factory does have some yellow. Both distanced themselves from what might have happened before their tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all injured workers have given up on Tesla, either. Dennis Cruz has had his share of injuries, yet he still wants to get back to the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, out on workers’ compensation because of work-induced tendinitis, Cruz ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. Then, in late 2016, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436216-SDS-BM4601.html\">toxic\u003c/a> adhesive many workers complain about got in his eye, damaging his cornea. And in September, as a quality inspector, Cruz says he put out a fire that broke out on a car body, inhaling fumes from burning chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz, 42, is on light duty as he struggles with shortness of breath, coughing spells and headaches. But he wants to provide for his family, apply his skills and get promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t do that on workers’ comp. I can’t do that away from the factory,” he said. “That’s why I push to go back. I push to go back into the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discrepancies in Injury Counts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Tesla’s internal injury tracking system, a supervisor wrote that a worker couldn’t come to work one day in February 2017 because “his left arm was in pain from installing Wiper motors during his shift.” One worker “fainted and hit head on floor” because “team member was working in a group setting and became uncomfortably hot.” Another employee, a supervisor noted, was “highly relied upon at this workstation” but injured her shoulder from repetitive motion due to an “Unfriendly Ergonomic Process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is required by law to report every work-related injury that results in days away from work, job restrictions or medical treatment beyond first aid. But those injuries were labeled “personal medical” cases, meaning work had nothing to do with them. So they weren’t counted when Tesla tallied its injuries on legally mandated reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The list of the uncounted goes on. One worker had back spasms when reaching for boxes, one sprained her back carrying something to a work table and one got a pinch in his back from bending over to apply sealer and couldn’t walk off the pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, if something at work contributed to an injury – even if work wasn’t the only cause – the injury \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/14300_5.html\">must be counted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former Tesla safety professional, however, said the company systematically undercounted injuries by mislabeling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw injuries on there like broken bones and lacerations that they were saying were not recordable” as injuries, said the safety professional, who asked to remain anonymous. “I saw a lot of stuff that was like, ‘Wow, this is crazy.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal compared records from Tesla’s internal tracking system, obtained from a source, with the official logs, which were requested by an employee and provided to Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a dozen examples provided to the company by Reveal, Tesla stood by its decision to not count them. It said workers may have thought they were injured because of their jobs, and supervisors may have assumed the same. But later, Tesla said, a medical professional – sometimes contracted or affiliated with the company – determined there was no connection to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very strongly,” Shelby said. “We are doing proper recordkeeping here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal also provided Tesla’s internal descriptions of the injuries, along with the company’s case-by-case response, to Doug Parker, executive director of Worksafe, an Oakland-based organization that \u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.typepad.com/files/worksafe_tesla5_24.pdf\">previously analyzed\u003c/a> Tesla’s official injury logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The examples you’ve given me are concerning, troubling,” he said. “They suggest that Tesla isn’t reporting all the workplace injuries that they should be reporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the podcast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/429374469&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited Tesla for more than 40 violations since 2013. Tesla’s rate of serious injuries that required time off or job restrictions was\u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.org/file_download/inline/83a169a1-2af7-4c2e-81a5-21b6965ff996\"> 83 percent higher\u003c/a> than the industry in 2016. Since then, however, Tesla says it has turned things around on its way to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\">becoming the safest car factory in the world\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Musk claimed in a \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/24/elon-musk-addresses-working-condition-claims-in-tesla-staff-wide-email/\">staffwide email\u003c/a> and at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/06/elon-musk-says-tesla-is-on-its-way-to-lowering-employees-injury-rate/\">shareholder meeting\u003c/a> that the company’s injury rate was much better than the industry average. A company \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/creating-the-safest-car-factory-in-the-world\">blog post\u003c/a> said that to be average would be “to go backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Tesla apparently did hit reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our 2017 data showed that we are at industry average, so we’re happy about that,” Shelby said, explaining the earlier claims as a “snapshot in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk also \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2017/06/02/elon-musk-tesla-injury-factory/\">emailed\u003c/a> his staff last year saying he was meeting weekly with the safety team and “would like to meet every injured person as soon as they are well, so that I can understand from them exactly what we need to do to make it better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano said Musk did meet with some injured workers, but no longer meets weekly with the safety team because it isn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I can’t claim he’s met with every injured worker,” she said. “I think that’s absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former members of the environment, health and safety team said they had other reasons to doubt Tesla’s official numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, for example, didn’t always count injuries among the plant’s temporary workers, they said. Tesla fills some of its factory positions with temp workers who later may be offered permanent jobs. Companies must count those injuries if they supervise the temps, as Tesla does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the law,” agreed Tesla’s Shelby. “Based on my review of our data, we’ve always done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At one point, though, White said she asked her supervisor why the injury rate seemed off, and he told her they weren’t counting temp worker injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew they were reporting incorrect numbers,” White said. “Those workers were being injured on the floor and that wasn’t being captured, and they knew that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla began to fix that problem in 2017, former employees said, but it’s unclear how consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1020x684.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1200x805.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1180x792.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-960x644.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-240x161.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-375x252.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-520x349.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final.png 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After workers requested the company’s injury logs last year, Tesla\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419502-Tesla-300A-2016-Amended.html\"> amended\u003c/a> its\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419503-Tesla-300A-2016-initial.html\"> original\u003c/a> 2016 report to add 135 injuries that hadn’t been counted previously. The company said it changed the numbers after it discovered injuries that hadn’t been shared with Tesla by its temp agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Toxic Workplace Chemicals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In April 2017, Tarik Logan – a temporary worker – was assigned to patch parts in Tesla’s battery packs with Henkel Loctite AA H3500. The powerful adhesive includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/methyl-methacrylate.pdf\">toxic chemicals\u003c/a> that can cause \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433392-LoctiteH3500-SDS-1808799.html\">allergic reactions and even genetic defects\u003c/a>. Logan and a former co-worker said they went through more than 100 tubes of the glue a day without adequate ventilation or protection from the fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First it brought dizziness, then headaches – the worst pain he’s ever felt, Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a strong person,” said Toni Porter, his mother. “For him to cry out, it was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla referred Logan, then 23, to a medical clinic that diagnosed an “acute reaction to car adhesive glue causing headaches, dizziness, and some respiratory discomfort.” The doctor gave him prescription-strength painkillers and told him to avoid the glue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My head still hurt tho,” he texted Porter. “This Shit hurrrrrts!!!!!!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These texts are among those sent by Tarik Logan to his mother, Toni Porter, while Logan worked at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California in April 2017:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://www.revealnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/texts34.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He missed work and ended up at the hospital multiple times, Logan and Porter said. Then Tesla declined to take him on as a permanent employee, citing attendance issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, in response to Reveal’s inquiries, said it doesn’t agree with the doctor’s determination that Logan’s pain was work-related. In any case, Tesla said, it doesn’t count as an injury because it didn’t require any medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, however, just the prescription of pain medication – documented in medical records obtained by Reveal – \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2007-02-06-1\">requires\u003c/a> that his injury be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan handled only a very small amount of the chemical and exposure levels were within standards, Tesla stated. The company also said Logan didn’t complain about headaches until he told a doctor a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That statement is contradicted by medical records and internal company records, which show that Logan’s supervisor put it in Tesla’s injury tracking system and Logan was diagnosed by a doctor a week after his headaches started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former safety team member who asked to remain anonymous said Tesla told workers that their reactions to workplace chemicals were personal medical problems instead of treating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have employees at work that don’t know what they’re being exposed to, and nobody’s taking care of them,” the safety professional said. “It’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-960x637.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-520x345.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One worker is described in internal records as having gone to Tesla’s nurse “expressing concerns with the fumes in the area. Saying he feels like he is dying.” It was marked a personal medical issue, with a note that stated, “Beyond my skillset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby, the safety vice president, said Tesla checks thoroughly for chemical exposures and “nowhere are we over any of the exposure limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4390644-Inspection-1268303-Citations-Copy.html\">cited\u003c/a> the company for failing to “effectively assess the workplace” for chemical hazards, which Tesla is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Thrown to the Wolves’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Tesla has been improving, it wasn’t fast enough for Alaa Alkhafagi, who joined Tesla in 2017 as an engineering technician servicing robots that spray paint on car bodies. Alkhafagi said he received no safety instruction specific to the paint department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Alkhafagi, 27, said he was told to go underneath the painting booth to clear excess paint from a clogged hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsure of how to get down there, workers would pry up a piece of the metal flooring and jump in, he said. When he did, Alkhafagi’s foot got stuck in paint, his hand slipped and he fell forward, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436269-Alkhafagi-Injury.html\">smashing\u003c/a> his head and arm. He ended up unable to make a fist or go back to his job, filing a workers’ compensation claim, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident didn’t end up on Tesla’s official injury logs. The company said it wasn’t recorded because Alkhafagi initially received only first aid. But his inability to go back to his normal work duties would mean that the injury should have been counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than the accident,” Alkhafagi said. “They haven’t trained anyone properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla said that after his injury, the company made sure only specially trained workers did that job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of adequate training was a problem throughout the factory, said Roger Croney, who oversaw workers in three different departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New employees with no factory experience were sent to Tesla’s die-casting operation – where aluminum is melted and molded into parts – without basic training specific to the job, said Croney, former associate manager in that department. Some didn’t know they’d be working with 1,200-degree molten metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was far different from the General Motors plant in Ohio where Croney had worked for eight years, he said. So Croney took it upon himself to develop his own training program. A blast of liquid metal had burned his face and hands not long after he came to Tesla in 2012, and he took safety seriously. But other supervisors didn’t, Croney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \u003ccite>(AJ Mast/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of workers come in and they get thrown to the wolves,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Croney quit in March 2017 with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432391-Roger-Croney-Resignation-Letter.html\">letter\u003c/a> alleging a pattern of discriminatory treatment. Croney, who is black, said he was passed over repeatedly by white people with less experience and then demoted to a supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Tesla said Croney didn’t mention racial discrimination in his letter or exit interview. Croney has a pending claim of racial discrimination at Tesla with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year, according to a Reveal review of records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla defended its training regimen, saying all new production employees get a day of orientation, a day of classroom instruction and two days of hands-on training in which they’re shown how to hold and use tools while avoiding injury. Workers building the Model 3 get an additional two days of virtual training on computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four days is pretty intensive,” Toledano said, “and then there’s ongoing training, so training is central.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Repetitive Stress Injuries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that repetitive stress injuries are the most common way workers get hurt there, Tesla officials emphasize ergonomic improvements to the new Model 3 assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually redesigned it so it’s safer for our employees to make,” Shelby said. “It’s super cool to see when it’s on the line how much easier it is to make the Model 3.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, however, wouldn’t let reporters see that assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-960x633.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-375x247.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When building Tesla’s other cars, former workers said they had to sacrifice their bodies to save time. Some workers, for example, lifted heavy car seats over their shoulders because the mechanical assists designed to ease the load were too slow, said Joel Barraza, a former production associate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would carry a seat because they’d be like, ‘Oh, I gotta get this done.’ I personally carried a seat,” Barraza said. “They’re supposed to move. Move it on, move it on, keep the line going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, the former safety lead, also said workers sometimes lifted seats manually, but Tesla, in a statement, said it doesn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he was fired along with hundreds of other workers last fall. Tesla said employees were\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/\"> terminated en masse\u003c/a> due to performance issues, though some workers have argued they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/tesla-firings-former-and-current-employees-allege-layoffs.html\">cost-cutting layoffs\u003c/a> or used to \u003ca href=\"http://www.autonews.com/article/20171026/OEM01/171029793/tesla-uaw-labor-dispute-california\">punish union supporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he and others hurt their backs through repetitive movements, but few complained because “supervisors would be like, ‘Oh, he’s just being a little bitch.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ accounts from 2017 didn’t sound much different from those who were injured years earlier. In 2014, Mark Eberley was diagnosed with Tesla-induced carpal tunnel syndrome. He wrecked his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days, he said. He needed surgery and was out of work and on workers’ compensation for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what we were doing, it was hustle, hustle, hustle,” he said. “If you didn’t get your numbers, they’d be complaining to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressure could be crushing for white-collar workers as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his office job at the Fremont factory, senior analyst Ali Khan prepared Tesla’s financial filings required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2016, the office was understaffed, and he worked at least 12 hours every day, he said – no weekends, holidays or days off at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain from repetitive motion started in his wrists, radiated up his arms, then to his neck and back. He said he would have trouble holding a glass of water and couldn’t play with his 1-year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said he asked for an ergonomic evaluation, but Tesla’s safety team told his manager they were too busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My boss is telling me, ‘Oh, if you are going to take time off, it’s going to slow us down, it’s going to affect your reviews,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla eventually sent him to one of its preferred health clinics. A doctor there diagnosed him with work-related muscle strains and tendinitis, repeatedly prescribing painkillers and work restrictions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433386-Khan-Medical-Records.html\">medical records show\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant Khan had to be listed on Tesla’s injury logs. He wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said he still wasn’t allowed the doctor-ordered breaks. Forfeiting lucrative stock options, he submitted his resignation in August 2016. But his body hasn’t recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things were preventable – that’s what makes me upset,” he said. “All of this could have been addressed, and it just wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In 2017, the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/wine-globalization/united-states/F91DB4F30BC37145AC9B92F37C2AA5D7\">exported 380 million liters\u003c/a> of wine worth US$1.46 billion. Canada was the top destination, importing 28 percent of the total, followed by the U.K. with 15 percent, Hong Kong at 8 percent and Japan with 6 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"4lR2z\" class=\"tc-infographic-datawrapper\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/4lR2z/4/\" height=\"600px\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>China’s Small Share\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>China, for its part, imports quite a bit of wine. Very little, however, comes from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>China imported some $2.37 billion worth of wine in 2016, most of which came from the European Union. Only \u003ca href=\"https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/usa/show/2204/2016/\">$76 million\u003c/a>, or 2.2 percent, was American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"sAd9I\" class=\"tc-infographic-datawrapper\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/sAd9I/4/\" height=\"600px\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That puts China sixth among top destinations for U.S. wine exports, with a share of about 5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These \u003ca href=\"https://www.adelaide.edu.au/wine-econ/pubs/working_papers/WP0517.pdf\">figures underestimate\u003c/a> the true value somewhat because more than half of Hong Kong’s imports are then shipped or smuggled to China. Even allowing for these adjustments, Chinese consumption of U.S. wine makes up less than 1 percent of the total value of American production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s clear that at the moment China is not all that important to most California wine producers. Why then are U.S. wine producers anxious about new tariffs disrupting trade to this relatively minor market?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s all about the future. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although per capita consumption of wine in China remains very low, China is the world’s fastest-growing wine market and is expected to soon become the second largest, after the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2000 to 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adelaide.edu.au/wine-econ/pubs/working_papers/WP0517.pdf\">Chinese wine consumption soared\u003c/a> from 219 million liters in 2000 to 1.24 billion liters in 2016. \u003ca href=\"https://www.adelaide.edu.au/wine-econ/pubs/working_papers/WP0517.pdf\">Some observers estimate\u003c/a> growth was even higher. Much of that consumption was imported – especially in the premium wine segment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/wine-globalization/asia-and-other-emerging-regions/85F1403DA98F8B4BB57F837734D91589\">Economists who have studied these markets\u003c/a> project further significant growth in China’s demand for wine, including premium wine imports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would make getting pushed out of China especially troubling at a time when global per-capita wine consumption has been declining, especially in Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"WKNFE\" class=\"tc-infographic-datawrapper\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WKNFE/1/\" height=\"600px\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Already at a Disadvantage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even without the new tax, U.S. exporters were facing a tilted playing field that would have constrained the potential for increasing California’s market share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the new tariffs, China already collected a tariff of 14 percent on most U.S. wine – though it can reach as high as 20 percent in some categories. In contrast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adelaide.edu.au/wine-econ/pubs/working_papers/WP0517.pdf\">wine from some countries\u003c/a>, such as Chile, Georgia, New Zealand and, starting next year, Australia, enter China duty-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new tariff in effect, most American wines will incur duties of 29 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong Kong, however, does offer a back door to U.S. wine. The China-governed island phased out its own steep tariffs on wine imports a decade ago. This has created an incentive for smuggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Market Lost?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So what does all this mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the small share of total U.S. wine currently going to China, the new tariff would not likely have a material effect on the American wine industry, whether in terms of domestic prices or producer bottom lines. Still, it will be disruptive for particular businesses especially in the near term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real concern for American wine producers is that high tariffs applied today may make U.S. wine too expensive and cause them to miss out as hundreds of millions of Chinese middle-income consumers increase their wine consumption over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://counter.theconversation.com/content/94607/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\" alt=\"The Conversation\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">More broadly, if the trade spat escalates to a trade war, serious damage will be done to all of U.S. agriculture, including grape and wine producers. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chris and John Fosselman hoist ice cream flavors — mango, salty caramel, vanilla, coffee — into four mixers and wait for the churn before hand-packing buckets with their crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Fosselman’s Ice Cream in Alhambra, the family-run operation is streamlined, producing 200-plus flavors for the retail store and wholesale operation on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers are the third generation of Fosselmans to run the nearly century-old business, turning their grandfather’s California dream that he brought from Waverly, Iowa in 1924, into their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For families with generations in California, the dream evolves. For those who are new — like Asian and Latino immigrants who have been arriving in greater numbers since the 1970s — the dream also is evolutionary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What, if anything, does it mean for the California dream when the population changes? Despite generational and cultural differences most people seek a version of the same dream, said Bill Deverell, University of Southern California historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most people the California dream is not that vaunted,” Deverell said. “The California dream is a better life for your grandchildren than you had; the California dream is a very, very strong public education system. The California dream is, of course, tied to a perspective about a particular kind of harmony with nature. So it’s an ambition and a hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Fosselmans, the move to California made sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could sell a lot more ice cream in California than he could in Waverly, Iowa,” said John, 49. “He loved the people, he loved the ability to grow. Back then it was a lot easier business climate than it is now as far as, you know, regulations and what you could and couldn’t do. 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John, center back, coordinates the hand packing with other staff members. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The brothers now have their version of the California dream going, seeded by the work of their grandfather, father and uncles. They have embraced the community as it has changed, while keeping the same recipe for ice cream — heavy on the buttercream and low on fillers — that makes them successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this city about 10 miles outside of downtown Los Angeles, in the San Gabriel Valley, the population has shifted from majority white. The city is 54 percent Asian and 34 percent Latino, according to the 2016 Census American Community Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asians are the fastest-growing group of immigrants and are expected to exceed Latino immigrants in the U.S. within five decades, according to a Pew Research report. Between 2000 and 2015, the Asian population grew 72 percent with Chinese, Indian and Filipino making up the largest nationalities. California is home to about one-third of the Asian population in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The perspective on the dream appears to shift the longer a family has been in the state, especially among baby boomers. They worry that the new generation is doing worse than they were and that their children may not be able to be as successful. A recent USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll found that 50 percent of Californians believe younger residents are doing worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cost of living is rising, the middle class is shrinking, wages have remained relatively stagnant and housing prices have skyrocketed, many Californians are still optimistic about the dream for them and their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11661854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"Brothers John (L) and Chris Fosselman are the third generation in their family to run the ice cream business.\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-1020x742.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-1200x873.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-1180x859.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-960x699.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-240x175.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-375x273.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-520x378.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brothers John (L) and Chris Fosselman are the third generation in their family to run the ice cream business. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That includes the Fosselman brothers, who feel they’ve achieved their version of the dream. They bought into the business nearly three decades ago, purchased homes in Pasadena, have families and have grown the business every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve already reached my dream a long time ago, I had a very small goal, I wanted to have a really nice family, a nice roof over my head and make a good product and help make my kids happy; and I’ve done that. I reached it. I don’t have giant expectations,” said Chris, 52.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people the California dream is not so much about vast wealth or family because those are fleeting and those aren’t necessarily equations that equal happiness in California,” said Deverell, the USC historian. “It doesn’t mean that it’s handed to people. It means that the California Dream asks people to, in essence, work for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So just doing what the family has always done isn’t the way the Fosselmans have pursued their dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe the rebirth for Chris and I with the California Dream really has been the kind of the influx of new people and new immigrants to the area that didn’t have anybody there that was making that product for them,” John said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late ’80s with the help of community members, Fosselman’s began producing different kinds of ice cream for the newcomers — flavors large producers would never make for burgeoning ethnic groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11661846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Fosselman's manager makes a shake, below a sign advertising Taro ice cream.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Fosselman’s manager makes a shake, below a sign advertising Taro ice cream. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We make lychee and taro and black sesame and matcha green tea and ginger and things like that, which were never obviously in my grandfather’s flavor catalog or my dad or uncles,” said John. “Then on the Latino side, we do horchata, Oaxacan chocolate and dulce de leche.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new menu didn’t happen by accident. Community members came to Fosselman’s to request them for their restaurants and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers said yes. They recognized an opportunity to serve the changing population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they’ve come to know is that while the immigrants may have entirely different backgrounds, their dreams are similar. They want opportunities, jobs, good education and better lives for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11661819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Pinki Chen made the rounds at the recent Chinese New Year festival, greeting long-time vendors she worked with for the two decades she ran the celebration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-1200x837.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-1180x823.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-960x670.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-240x167.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-375x262.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinki Chen made the rounds at the recent Chinese New Year festival, greeting long-time vendors she worked with for the two decades she ran the celebration. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About five minutes away at the annual Chinese New Year Festival another prominent Alhambran — Pinki Chen — made the rounds talking to long-time vendors, fire department representatives and children dressed up as dogs ready to go on stage after the dragon dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello, hello,” she called out to people she recognized. Chen ran the festival for 20 years until retiring last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen arrived in the city in 1980 from Taiwan, after a few years in Boston to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was the land of opportunity, she said, and great weather. Plus the growing Asian community made it easy for her to move West. Her vision of California was directly influenced by the western television programs she watched as a child in Taiwan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember watching a lot of the wagon trains coming into the West, the pioneer and also finding the gold,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, she found her version of that dream — a career, a family and a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The freedom, definitely is a very different from the old country,” said Chen, now 70. “Here, in spirit, you can pretty much do everything, anything, and then you know the opportunities are much greater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654616/for-the-middle-class-the-california-dream-has-become-a-california-joke\">For the Middle Class, the California Dream Has Become a California Joke\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654616/for-the-middle-class-the-california-dream-has-become-a-california-joke\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/MiddleClassDream-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She started as a language instructor and, like the Fosselman brothers, reinvented herself over and over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen became a Realtor and later a real estate developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she saw the market starting to slow she knew she had to find something else. Around that time she was asked to serve on the New Year Festival committee. She was first a volunteer but eventually took it over as full-time executive director for two decades. She did all of this while raising two daughters with her late husband in San Marino, one of California’s wealthiest cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Fosselmans, Chen agrees the dream may be harder to attain these days. But she’s still a believer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you have to be very brave when there’s an opportunity,” she said. “And you just grab it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re reinventing ice cream flavors or a career, California is a place where residents can evolve, which is something that still attracts people today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think traditionally people who come to California expecting to find the California dream work for it over the course of entire lives,” said Deverell. “So that kind of Californian dream about putting your shoulder to it and working hard, that seems to be constant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the university where historian Bill Deverell works.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most people the California dream is not that vaunted,” Deverell said. “The California dream is a better life for your grandchildren than you had; the California dream is a very, very strong public education system. The California dream is, of course, tied to a perspective about a particular kind of harmony with nature. So it’s an ambition and a hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Fosselmans, the move to California made sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could sell a lot more ice cream in California than he could in Waverly, Iowa,” said John, 49. “He loved the people, he loved the ability to grow. Back then it was a lot easier business climate than it is now as far as, you know, regulations and what you could and couldn’t do. I think it was definitely the land of opportunity in his mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11661805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours-800x663.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Fosselman, forefront, pours salted caramel into a bucket to use in a mixer. John, center back, coordinates the hand packing with other staff members.\" width=\"800\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours-800x663.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours-1020x846.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours-1200x995.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours-1180x978.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours-960x796.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours-240x199.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours-375x311.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FosselmanPours-520x431.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Fosselman, forefront, pours salted caramel into a bucket to use in a mixer. John, center back, coordinates the hand packing with other staff members. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The brothers now have their version of the California dream going, seeded by the work of their grandfather, father and uncles. They have embraced the community as it has changed, while keeping the same recipe for ice cream — heavy on the buttercream and low on fillers — that makes them successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this city about 10 miles outside of downtown Los Angeles, in the San Gabriel Valley, the population has shifted from majority white. The city is 54 percent Asian and 34 percent Latino, according to the 2016 Census American Community Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asians are the fastest-growing group of immigrants and are expected to exceed Latino immigrants in the U.S. within five decades, according to a Pew Research report. Between 2000 and 2015, the Asian population grew 72 percent with Chinese, Indian and Filipino making up the largest nationalities. California is home to about one-third of the Asian population in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The perspective on the dream appears to shift the longer a family has been in the state, especially among baby boomers. They worry that the new generation is doing worse than they were and that their children may not be able to be as successful. A recent USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll found that 50 percent of Californians believe younger residents are doing worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cost of living is rising, the middle class is shrinking, wages have remained relatively stagnant and housing prices have skyrocketed, many Californians are still optimistic about the dream for them and their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11661854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"Brothers John (L) and Chris Fosselman are the third generation in their family to run the ice cream business.\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-1020x742.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-1200x873.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-1180x859.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-960x699.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-240x175.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-375x273.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Fosselmans-520x378.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brothers John (L) and Chris Fosselman are the third generation in their family to run the ice cream business. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That includes the Fosselman brothers, who feel they’ve achieved their version of the dream. They bought into the business nearly three decades ago, purchased homes in Pasadena, have families and have grown the business every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve already reached my dream a long time ago, I had a very small goal, I wanted to have a really nice family, a nice roof over my head and make a good product and help make my kids happy; and I’ve done that. I reached it. I don’t have giant expectations,” said Chris, 52.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people the California dream is not so much about vast wealth or family because those are fleeting and those aren’t necessarily equations that equal happiness in California,” said Deverell, the USC historian. “It doesn’t mean that it’s handed to people. It means that the California Dream asks people to, in essence, work for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So just doing what the family has always done isn’t the way the Fosselmans have pursued their dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe the rebirth for Chris and I with the California Dream really has been the kind of the influx of new people and new immigrants to the area that didn’t have anybody there that was making that product for them,” John said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late ’80s with the help of community members, Fosselman’s began producing different kinds of ice cream for the newcomers — flavors large producers would never make for burgeoning ethnic groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11661846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Fosselman's manager makes a shake, below a sign advertising Taro ice cream.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TaroIceCream-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Fosselman’s manager makes a shake, below a sign advertising Taro ice cream. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We make lychee and taro and black sesame and matcha green tea and ginger and things like that, which were never obviously in my grandfather’s flavor catalog or my dad or uncles,” said John. “Then on the Latino side, we do horchata, Oaxacan chocolate and dulce de leche.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new menu didn’t happen by accident. Community members came to Fosselman’s to request them for their restaurants and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers said yes. They recognized an opportunity to serve the changing population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they’ve come to know is that while the immigrants may have entirely different backgrounds, their dreams are similar. They want opportunities, jobs, good education and better lives for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11661819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Pinki Chen made the rounds at the recent Chinese New Year festival, greeting long-time vendors she worked with for the two decades she ran the celebration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-1200x837.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-1180x823.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-960x670.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-240x167.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-375x262.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Pinki-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinki Chen made the rounds at the recent Chinese New Year festival, greeting long-time vendors she worked with for the two decades she ran the celebration. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About five minutes away at the annual Chinese New Year Festival another prominent Alhambran — Pinki Chen — made the rounds talking to long-time vendors, fire department representatives and children dressed up as dogs ready to go on stage after the dragon dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello, hello,” she called out to people she recognized. Chen ran the festival for 20 years until retiring last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen arrived in the city in 1980 from Taiwan, after a few years in Boston to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was the land of opportunity, she said, and great weather. Plus the growing Asian community made it easy for her to move West. Her vision of California was directly influenced by the western television programs she watched as a child in Taiwan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember watching a lot of the wagon trains coming into the West, the pioneer and also finding the gold,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, she found her version of that dream — a career, a family and a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The freedom, definitely is a very different from the old country,” said Chen, now 70. “Here, in spirit, you can pretty much do everything, anything, and then you know the opportunities are much greater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654616/for-the-middle-class-the-california-dream-has-become-a-california-joke\">For the Middle Class, the California Dream Has Become a California Joke\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654616/for-the-middle-class-the-california-dream-has-become-a-california-joke\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/MiddleClassDream-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She started as a language instructor and, like the Fosselman brothers, reinvented herself over and over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen became a Realtor and later a real estate developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she saw the market starting to slow she knew she had to find something else. Around that time she was asked to serve on the New Year Festival committee. She was first a volunteer but eventually took it over as full-time executive director for two decades. She did all of this while raising two daughters with her late husband in San Marino, one of California’s wealthiest cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Fosselmans, Chen agrees the dream may be harder to attain these days. But she’s still a believer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you have to be very brave when there’s an opportunity,” she said. “And you just grab it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re reinventing ice cream flavors or a career, California is a place where residents can evolve, which is something that still attracts people today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think traditionally people who come to California expecting to find the California dream work for it over the course of entire lives,” said Deverell. “So that kind of Californian dream about putting your shoulder to it and working hard, that seems to be constant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the university where historian Bill Deverell works.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11661063/watch-live-testimony-by-zuckerberg-about-use-and-abuse-of-data\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">testified Tuesday\u003c/a> before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media company that made Zuckerberg a billionaire many times over is under the microscope for issues relating to data privacy, hate speech, Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and other security issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some sketches of the hearing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Optimistic by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Dianne Feinstein seemed to direct her questioning more towards Cambridge Analytica than Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Ban Cambridge Analytica by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been several times when Zuckerberg has deflected questions that seemed to make him particularly uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) pushed the Facebook CEO on the similarity of the so called “Stanford Analytica,” Palantir, to Cambridge Analytica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) asked Zuckerberg about the company’s responsibility to protect people in Myanmar and about any interaction with special counsel Robert Mueller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Squirming by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what started as a moment of levity but quickly drove a point home, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) asked Zuckerberg whether he would publicly reveal where he was staying while he was in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Um No by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One surprising moment in the joint Senate and Commerce committee hearing came when Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook has been cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Mueller Surprise by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louisiana Senator John Kennedy was very concise in summing up a recurring theme among Senators on both sides of the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Agreement Sucks by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify again Wednesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11661063/watch-live-testimony-by-zuckerberg-about-use-and-abuse-of-data\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">testified Tuesday\u003c/a> before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media company that made Zuckerberg a billionaire many times over is under the microscope for issues relating to data privacy, hate speech, Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and other security issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some sketches of the hearing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Optimistic by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies03-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Dianne Feinstein seemed to direct her questioning more towards Cambridge Analytica than Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Ban Cambridge Analytica by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies04-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been several times when Zuckerberg has deflected questions that seemed to make him particularly uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) pushed the Facebook CEO on the similarity of the so called “Stanford Analytica,” Palantir, to Cambridge Analytica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) asked Zuckerberg about the company’s responsibility to protect people in Myanmar and about any interaction with special counsel Robert Mueller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Squirming by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies05-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what started as a moment of levity but quickly drove a point home, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) asked Zuckerberg whether he would publicly reveal where he was staying while he was in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Um No by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies06-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One surprising moment in the joint Senate and Commerce committee hearing came when Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook has been cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Mueller Surprise by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies07-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louisiana Senator John Kennedy was very concise in summing up a recurring theme among Senators on both sides of the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11661214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"Agreement Sucks by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-1920x1213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/zuck_testifies08-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify again Wednesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Employers can't pay women less than men just because they made less at a previous job, a federal appeals court has ruled. The continuing gender pay gap is \"an embarrassing reality of our economy,\" the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in its opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court said a woman's prior salary, whether considered on its own or along with other factors, can't be used to justify paying a female employee less than her male counterpart. To do so perpetuates discrimination, the court's majority opinion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing studies that show American women lose some $840 billion annually because of the wage gap, the court wrote, \"If money talks, the message to women costs more than 'just' billions: Women are told they are not worth as much as men.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the U.S., the average wage gap for women stands at 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. Monday's unanimous ruling by an 11-judge panel came out one day before Equal Pay Day — when advocates work to raise awareness and push for closing the wage gap (you can follow the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/EqualPayDay?src=hash\">#EqualPayDay\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's interpretation of the Equal Pay Act overturns a ruling that had stood since 1982. That precedent viewed an employee's pay history as one of the federal law's catchall exceptions that are \"based on any other factor other than sex,\" but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The point of the Equal Pay Act, the court's opinion said, is to eliminate long-standing pay disparities, not to preserve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acceptable factors other than sex should be \"limited to legitimate, job-related factors such as a prospective employee's experience, educational background, ability, or prior job performance,\" the court said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling comes more than four years after Aileen Rizo sued the Fresno County Office of Education over her salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660911/court-says-fresno-schools-cant-pay-women-less-than-men-based-on-past-wages\">The Associated Press reported\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The ruling came in a lawsuit by California school employee Aileen Rizo, who learned in 2012 while having lunch with her colleagues that male counterparts hired after her were making more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fresno County public schools hired Rizo as a math consultant in 2009 for a little under $63,000 a year. 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He was 87.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that opinion, Reinhardt noted that when Congress approved the Equal Pay Act in 1963, lawmakers were already calling it overdue. Back then, they talked about justice, fair play and economic soundness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Salaries speak louder than words, however,\" Reinhardt wrote. \"Although the Act has prohibited sex-based wage discrimination for more than fifty years, the financial exploitation of working women embodied by the gender pay gap continues to be an embarrassing reality of our economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is now potentially heading to the Supreme Court — and the appeals ruling includes a preview of some of the ideas that might be argued if it reaches that stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several judges wrote concurring opinions to say that while they agreed with the result of the court's ruling, they disagreed with parts of its rationale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge M. Margaret McKeown, joined by Judge Mary H. 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In California, it owns about 13,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But firms such as Blackstone have stopped buying wide swaths of California homes. According to the real estate data firm ATTOM Data Solutions, which defines institutional investors as entities that buy 10 or more homes in a given year, institutional investors accounted for less than 2 percent of the state’s single-family home and condo sales in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://infogram.com/institutional-investor-share-over-time-1h706eovykwq25y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a pretty steep drop from as recently as 2012, when institutional investors accounted for about 7 percent of sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why the decline? California no longer has a glut of cheap houses that can be easily gobbled up in foreclosure auctions. A sustained economic recovery and a lack of construction of new housing have sent housing prices skyrocketing. It’s now too expensive for institutional investors to buy lots of California homes. Blackstone’s Invitation Homes bought only 82 California houses last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The low inventory and homeownership rates are good (for investors) if they own the property—it means more renters,” says Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at the real estate data firm ATTOM. “But it’s bad if they’re trying to acquire more properties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those all-cash offers beating out would-be homebuyers aren’t coming from large investment firms anymore. Wealthy “mom-and-pop” landlords—families that can afford to buy another house and rent it out as an investment—now dominate the single-family rental market. Among all single-family rentals nationally, about 80 percent are owned by individuals who rent out just one or two homes, according to ATTOM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But aren’t institutional investors keeping houses off the market—and doesn’t that drive up prices?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institutional investors aren’t keeping enough homes off the market statewide to blame them wholesale for California’s astronomical housing prices. But in certain local markets—especially in areas hit hard by the foreclosure crisis, such as the Central Valley and Inland Empire—it’s impossible to pretend they have no influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among cities with at least 100,000 residents, Sacramento has seen the most properties sold to institutional investors since 2007, according to ATTOM’s data--about 6 percent of all homes sold in the city during that time span. San Bernardino and neighboring Rialto have seen the largest share of their housing stock bought by institutional investors, at roughly 10 percent. Firms have largely stayed away from Bay Area cities, where the foreclosure crisis was less acute and where housing prices are among the most expensive in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://infogram.com/cities-that-attract-most-institutional-investors-1h706eovy5ej25y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not believe our activity impacts prices at any level,” a spokeswoman for Blackstone subsidiary Invitation Homes wrote in response to questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institutional investors have targeted the typical starter home in these cities—three-bedroom, two-bath houses at a price point that a few years ago could have been afforded by younger families. So in some cases, would-be first-time homebuyers are now renting in places they may have bought just a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the stock owned by investment firms in these areas is much lower than in places such as Atlanta or Phoenix, where private firms have been responsible for nearly one in four home purchases. And young families are more likely to be renting single-family homes from smaller landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposed laws to help first-time homebuyers have stalled\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of institutional investors making all-cash offers on California homes caught the attention of state Sen. Ian Calderon, a Democrat from Whittier, when he was attempting to move out of his apartment and purchase his first house last year. While the 32-year-old lawmaker acknowledges that institutional investors don’t own a large chunk of California’s housing stock, he says he’s concerned their influence is yet another hurdle for young homebuyers to overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be able to have more information about these firms, and ultimately I want to advantage first-time homebuyers,” said Calderon. “I want to make sure that people aren’t getting screwed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple attempts by Calderon to impose more transparency on institutional investor activity while blunting their ability to make all-cash offers have not gone far in the Legislature. Two years ago, a bill that would have forced homeowners to wait 90 days before selling to large institutional investors failed to clear both chambers with that provision intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, a bill that would have required investors who own more than 100 properties in California to register with the state and provide detailed information on their activities again failed to reach the governor’s desk. Calderon says there’s a good chance that bill will be resuscitated this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Apartment Association, which represents landlords across the state for both multifamily and single-family units, has opposed much of Calderon’s legislation, arguing that much of the information it seeks is available in public stock exchange filings. 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A sustained economic recovery and a lack of construction of new housing have sent housing prices skyrocketing. It’s now too expensive for institutional investors to buy lots of California homes. Blackstone’s Invitation Homes bought only 82 California houses last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The low inventory and homeownership rates are good (for investors) if they own the property—it means more renters,” says Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at the real estate data firm ATTOM. “But it’s bad if they’re trying to acquire more properties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those all-cash offers beating out would-be homebuyers aren’t coming from large investment firms anymore. Wealthy “mom-and-pop” landlords—families that can afford to buy another house and rent it out as an investment—now dominate the single-family rental market. 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