Levi Sumagaysay covers the California economy for CalMatters with an eye on accountability and equity. She reports on the insurance market, taxes and anything that affects the state’s residents, labor force and economy.
Before joining CalMaters, Levi was a tech and business reporter and editor. She has written and edited stories about the rise of the dot-coms, the booms and busts of Silicon Valley and technology’s effects on everything, including the news media. She now works in a hybrid remote newsroom for an online publication, but previously worked in newsrooms with printing presses, paste-up artists, pica poles, pneumatic tubes and unforgettable personalities. She worked at a Seattle newspaper that had only one internet-connected computer.
The news business has changed, but what drew her to it hasn’t: She wants to tell stories to help people make informed decisions about their lives.
Levi was born in the Philippines and has lived in the Bay Area since the 1980s. She is a graduate of the San Francisco State journalism department. Her stories at MarketWatch on the tech economy and about janitors at Facebook won awards from the San Francisco Press Club; her tech news stories and commentary at the Mercury News won awards from Editor & Publisher and the Peninsula Press Club; she has received two National Press Foundation fellowships; and was a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing intern.
Los empleos en el sector privado en California han disminuido desde su pico pospandémico, mientras que el empleo en el sector público ha mostrado ganancias, dice la Oficina del Analista Legislativo del estado.
Private-sector jobs in California have declined since their post-pandemic peak, while public-sector employment has shown gains, the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office says.
Las olas de calor han matado a cientos de californianos y han costado miles de millones de dólares en la última década, según un nuevo informe del departamento de seguros estatal.
Heat waves have killed hundreds of Californians and cost billions of dollars in the past decade, according to a new report from the state insurance department.
Un programa que ayuda a las pequeñas empresas es sólo uno de los recortes presupuestarios propuestos en los que el gobernador y la Legislatura de California no están de acuerdo.
California no puede exigir legalmente a las aseguradoras que suscriban pólizas de propiedad residencial o comercial. Pero el Estado espera que las aseguradoras cumplan con las opciones reveladas hoy porque obtienen a cambio algo que desean: modelos de catástrofe.
California can't legally require insurers to write either residential or commercial property policies. But the state expects insurers to comply with the options unveiled today because they get something they want in return: catastrophe modeling.
Una ley de California de 2020 obliga a las empresas a ofrecer beneficios laborales a más trabajadores en lugar de tratarlos como contratistas independientes. Uber perdió un intento de revocar la ley.
A 2020 California law compels businesses to offer employment benefits to more workers rather than treating them like independent contractors. Uber lost an effort to overturn the law.