An article in today's Los Angeles Times about potential wage-theft legislation in Los Angeles highlights a recent study co-authored by Ruth Milkman, UCLA professor of sociology and a faculty member at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, that found that low-wage workers in the United States are routinely paid less than the legal minimum wage and denied overtime pay. The article also cited an event at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center at which UCLA students helped workers draft letters demanding back pay. Milkman was quoted.

Kaplan, professor and chair of the department of health services at the UCLA School of Public Health, is quoted today in a New York Times article about cancer tumors that can stop growing, shrink and even disappear without any treatment.

LoPucki, Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, was quoted Monday in a South Florida Business Journal article about legal fees in the bankruptcy case of a major Florida-based homebuilder. The article also cited LoPucki’s book “Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts."

Lu, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Monday in a BBC News article exploring why more American women die each year during childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women from almost any other developed country.

 

Shulman, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Monday in a Las Vegas Sun article about casino owner Steve Wynn’s recent criticisms in the media of President Obama's economic policies.