This is not a business reporter job, but this reporter knows what motivates business. This job is about helping people understand the business and economic trends that shape public policy, that influence the cost of living, that reveal the jobs being created and those that are going away. CalMatters explains the major state issues in California and all of it — education, environment, healthcare, transportation, justice — is shaped by the state’s business and economic trends. California is also a high-cost, high wage state. One of its central debates today is about maintaining those high wages and lowering those high costs.
There are many, many policy issues that shape California industry and its economy — the fifth largest in the world. California sits on the Pacific Rim, it is the nation’s largest agricultural state, it is home to Silicon Valley and Hollywood and its prosperity is seriously threatened by housing costs that make it hard to find employees, a higher education system that is turning away students and the common political complaint that regulation and taxation are driving businesses elsewhere.
This is a rich beat with a variety of human, business and political stories.
Responsibilities include:
These would be a plus:
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