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Women did everything right. Then work got ‘greedy.’ | New York Times
“The fundamental problem all along is that someone has to take care of the children,” said Till von Wachter, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “What’s changing here is the assortative mating piece. These women have made all these skills and investments and are not fully reaping those returns.”
Trump pulls out of arms treaty during speech at NRA convention | New York Times
“There’s definitely some bad news and the NRA internally is suffering from some major turmoil,” Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who specializes in the Second Amendment, said in an interview. “But there’s been some major success with Donald Trump.”
Black, Latino, younger voters made large gains in the 2018 midterms | Sacramento Bee
“We are seeing the Latino numbers increasing — as a percentage — quicker than other groups but it’s because they were lower,” said Matt Barreto, a professor at UCLA and an expert on Latino voting patterns. “African Americans have always had higher turnout rates than Latinos, but that’s explained by political mobilization and a higher sense of efficacy.”
Actress Lisa Kudrow speaks out on mental health, praises UCLA | Wall Street Journal Magazine
“I’m on the board of advisors of the UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, and through that I learn a lot,” says actress Lisa Kudrow. “Mental health is a part of your whole health. We need to get rid of the stigma around it. There is more awareness, and part of that is thanks to younger people. They’re talking about it very openly. The worst thing is to keep it quiet; then it’s very hard to get help.”
Legislator calls housing a ‘drastic’ issue, but critics say SB 50 is an ‘overreach’ | KNBC-TV
A much different assessment was offered by former Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who referred to the Weiner bill as “an overreach with no middle ground.” Yaroslavsky says SB 50 will have an impact far beyond subway stations and streetcar stops. “Weiner's bill extends to virtually every bus line in the L.A. basin ... any single family neighborhood within a quarter mile of a bus stop would be rezoned for multiple family development.... I’m hoping the legislature will come to its senses,” he said.
Black students to Princeton Seminary: Pay reparations from $1 billion endowment | Diverse Issues in Higher Education
“The idea of some reparation makes sense to me,” said [Dr. Gary] Orfield, a distinguished research professor of education, law, political science and urban planning at UCLA and co-director of the university’s Civil Rights Project. “Obviously, there’s a need to do something because the moral and historical case is strong, but how to do it is very complicated.”
Immigrant-heavy GOP states OK with census citizen question | Associated Press
Matt Barreto, a UCLA professor who submitted testimony in court cases about the citizenship question, did polling that showed 7.1% to 9.7% of the population might skip the census if it’s added. He also found that nearly half of Californians don’t trust the Trump administration to keep the citizenship information out of the hands of other government agencies.
State rethinks decision to quit providing glasses to needy adults | CALmatters
And that’s a budget consideration, said Nadereh Pourat, associate director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Add to those rolls the 19-26-year-old undocumented immigrants the governor wants to cover with Medi-Cal, and costs would rise further. “Everything is a worthwhile cause, but there is a competition for how to spend money,” Pourat said. “You have what you pay out, how many people you cover and what benefits you offer, and you have to balance the three of them out to do everything you want to do.”
A stigma-reduction mechanism to reduce weight-based achievement disparities | Science Trends
(Article co-written by UCLA’s Leah Lessard and Jaana Juvonen) By relying on a novel measure of school “weight diversity,” UCLA researchers Leah Lessard (CPhil) and Jaana Juvonen (Ph.D.) found that students with higher body weight do not perform more poorly in all schools. Weight-based achievement disparities were non-existent in middle schools that had students with greater variation across weight categories (e.g., normal, under-, over-weight). However, in schools with a limited representation of weight categories (i.e., less weight diversity), youth with higher weight received lower grades and standardized achievement test scores.
Where ‘congestion pricing’ has worked, and why | San Diego Union-Tribune
Michael Manville, professor of urban planning at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, told the [Union-Tribune’s] Smith that cities need to focus on whether congestion pricing improves traffic flow, not on how much money it raises. Still, that money can be considerable and used for public transit improvements.
Housing costs dampen residents’ satisfaction with life in Los Angeles | Phys.org
The survey, a joint project of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and The California Endowment, found dissatisfaction with housing affordability to be particularly strong among a group designated by researchers as “struggling,” which includes mostly younger residents, those with household incomes of $60,000 or less per year, renters and people without a college degree…. “Since the inception of the report, people have been concerned about their cost of housing, and their level of dissatisfaction just continues to get worse,” said Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at UCLA Luskin.
Brain’s support network may play key role in attention deficit, hyperactivity behaviors | Medical Xpress
The research, published in the journal Cell, was led by Baljit Khakh, a professor of physiology and neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. A central aim of Khakh’s lab has been to understand more about how astrocytes affect and regulate neural networks. “Unmasking how astrocytes contribute to brain function is one of the most important open questions in neuroscience,” Khakh said. “We have made some progress, but our earlier work did not tell us how increased astrocyte calcium signaling — a common method of communication used by astrocytes and neurons — would affect neurons and the neural circuits in which they reside. We set out to attack this problem.”
Work stress, poor sleep, high blood pressure a deadly trio | HealthDay
“As many as 50% of adults have high blood pressure,” said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. It’s a major risk factor for heart attack, stroke, heart failure, kidney disease and premature cardiovascular death, said Fonarow, who had no role in the new study. “A number of studies have found associations between greater work stress and subsequent risk of cardiovascular events. Impairment in sleep has also been associated with increased risk,” he said. However, these associations did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
Tensions high despite changes at autism science meeting | Spectrum
Last year, organizers tried to make the conference more inclusive for autistic attendees with sensory sensitivities. A quiet room provided respite from the hubbub of scientific talks, and attendees were encouraged to use ‘flappause’ — a silent form of appreciation that involves hand-flapping — instead of applause. “The flappause seemed to serve as a reminder of a political point of view that distracted some of the speakers from accurate reporting of their data,” says Catherine Lord, professor in residence of psychiatry and education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lord notes that even autistic people aren’t necessarily fond of flappause. “Some autistic people feel strongly about the benefits of flappausing, but others are bothered by it, as it can be visually distracting,” she says.
Men who pretend not to be interested in sex increase their chances of success with women, study finds | Daily Mail (U.K.)
Commenting on the study involving 224 men and women, Professor Martie Haselton, of the University of California, Los Angeles, said: “In economic terms it’s about supply and demand. The most in-demand people are not the most available — they are a rare commodity in the mating game.”