UCLA faculty experts advisory: State of jobs, unions and the economy on Labor Day 2012
With the presidential race focusing on the economy, the recovery has been sluggish, unemployment remains high and unionization rates in the U.S. have fallen to their lowest level since the Great Depression. UCLA has experts.
Media contact:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
David Lewin, a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is an expert on public-sector unionism, collective bargaining and pension issues.
Media contacts:
Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu
Daniel J.B. Mitchell, professor emeritus at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and distinguished professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, comments regularly on California's economy, labor relations and labor-market issues.
Media contacts:
Alex Boekelheide | 310-206-0159 | alex.boekelheide@publicaffairs.ucla.edu
Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu
Lee Ohanian, professor of economics, studies macroeconomic theory and policy, business cycles and growth, and the stock market and financial markets. He has argued that pro-labor policies backed by President Herbert Hoover following the stock market crash of 1929 turned what might have been a bad recession into the Great Depression.
Media contact:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Abel Valenzuela, associate professor of urban planning and Chicano studies and director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, is a regularly cited expert on immigration issues and day laborers. His he has written and spoken widely on the impact of immigration in urban neighborhoods and the experiences of minority groups in the labor market.
Media contacts:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu