Newsom touts career master plan as his governorship begins to wind down

When Jerry Brown began his first governorship 50 years ago, he staffed his new administration with social and economic reform activists from left-of-center organizations.
One was the late Jim Lorenz, a founder of California Rural Legal Assistance, which was allied with United Farm Workers Union’s efforts to unionize field hands. Brown made Lorenz director of the Employment Development Department and directed him to devise a plan that would improve the lives of California’s poor, then