If a deal is not reached in Congress by March 1, sequestration — a series of automatic cuts to government agencies totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years — could have a major impact on many areas of the national and California economies. UCLA has experts.

Lee Ohanian, professor of economics, is an expert on macroeconomic theory and policy, business cycles and growth, and the stock market and financial markets.

Media contact:

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

 

David Shulman is a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, comments regularly on the local, national and international economies.

Contact:

Shulman can be reached directly at 908-295-6121 or by contacting Elise Anderson at 310-206-7707 or 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. He teaches courses on California policy issues and has written extensively about lessons drawn from the state's boom-and-bust budget cycles.

Media contacts:

Alex Boekelheide | 310-206-0159 | Alex.Boekelheide@publicaffairs.ucla.edu

Matt Hurst | 310-206-5252 | matt.hurst@publicaffairs.ucla.edu