The California Table

The California Table

California State Controller Betty Yee launched her new podcast, The California Table — a new monthly series featuring community voices often missing at institutional policy or funding decision-making tables. Yee's debut podcast episode “On the High-Road: Righting the Restaurant Industry" features a must-hear discussion with Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, Co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Jayaraman, an outspoken leader in exposing the vulnerability of restaurant workers — pre- and post-COVID-19 — joins Betty to discuss the history of tipped-wage work and reimagining the restaurant industry as it emerges from the economic devastation of the pandemic. The California Table airs the first Monday of each month and features Californians making a difference by tackling difficult issues with individual and collective action. Paid for by Betty Yee for Treasurer 2026 (FPPC ID #1417532).

Episodes

March 17, 2021 69 mins
Last year — 2020 — by all accounts was a very deadly year with respect to lives lost to gun shootings. Although media attention focuses by and large on mass shootings, we must not lose sight of the lives lost daily from unintentional shootings, domestic gun violence, gun suicides, and more.
 
Overlaying the COVID-19 pandemic atop the ongoing plague of gun viole...
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February is Black History Month, when the Pan-African flag will be displayed prominently. The flag also signifies Black Liberation, its colors emblematic of the struggle and connection to the homeland:  the bloodshed for liberation (red), the affirmation of people and descendants of Black Africa (black), and the land of abundant resources (green).

 
The march continues fo...
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For under-served communities bearing the brunt of California's growing inequality, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the burdens of daily life.  The inequities in health care, jobs, housing, and education for communities of color have come into sharper focus with the COVID crisis and the attendant recession.
 
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Welcome to Episode 4 of The California Table: Lifting Up Families and Individuals in Crisis.


We welcome Louis Gill, Executive Director of the Bakersfield Homeless Center, and a few of his team members to shed light on how to effectively support families in crisis to attain permanent housing and self-sufficiency.

Homeless — a societal label that when ascribed to any adult or child who is u...

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November 12, 2020 66 mins
Episide 3 of The California Table — "California's Prison Walls:  Inside and Out" — features two former inmates who provide insights on prison culture, rehabilitation, and community re-entry and now are working to restore lives of inmates.
 
Thank you for listening to Betty's conversation with Ted Gray and Jason Bryant, whose work on establishing rehabilitation ...
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California State Controller Betty Yee opens up the second episode of The California Table with a reflection on her travels and experiences to California's heartland — the Central Valley. 

Betty paints a picture for listeners of the Central Valley's agricultural bounty juxtaposed against the stark living conditions of its communities of color.

The second episode of The Ca...

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California State Controller Betty Yee launches her new podcast, The California Table — a new monthly series featuring community voices often missing at institutional policy or funding decision-making tables.

Yee's debut podcast episode “On the High-Road: Righting the Restaurant Industry" features a must-hear discussion with Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, Co-Founder of the Res...

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