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Community choice is transforming the California energy industry
Report by UCLA researchers finds that community choice aggregators provide a competitive alternative for electricity consumers.
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UCLA faculty voice: Automation, not free trade, is bigger threat to American jobs
Finance professor Bhagwan Chowdhry says protectionist barriers won’t stop robots from taking U.S. jobs.
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Los Angeles County’s energy and air quality earn a C on UCLA environmental report card
New state and local policies promoting energy use transparency, public transit funding and sustainable development make researchers are optimistic for improvement.
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UCLA researchers seek juvenile justice alternatives for children under 12
Children 11 and younger have less developed cognitive skills and should not be help to the same level of culpability.
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Confusing food labels are about to get a lot simpler
Americans toss out $165 billion worth of food each year, often out of safety concerns fueled by confusion about the meaning of the multitude of date labels on packages.
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Deportation, loss of health care raise concerns in L.A. County, according to UCLA survey
Second annual Quality of Life Index shows how residents feel about some of the Trump administration’s policies and also includes opinions on traffic, cost of living and gentrification.
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UCLA Law helps L.A. set policy for release of police body camera footage
UCLA School of Law is joining the Los Angeles Police Commission, the Los Angeles Police Department and two other law schools to help establish a policy for the release of body camera footage by the police department.
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Green building programs show big results for big buildings
UCLA study shows that certified green buildings save 319 million pounds of carbon emissions in Los Angeles per year. Unfortunately, smaller buildings are left behind.
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UCLA faculty voice: Largest deportation campaign in U.S. history is no match for Trump’s plan
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez corrects the revisionist history of Operation Wetback, which in fact eased immigration law enforcement in the U.S.-Mexico border region.
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The reasons behind L.A.'s economic slide and the Bay Area's resilience
To explain why L.A.'s fortunes started to fall and the Bay Area's began to rise, Michael Storper and Zev Yaroslavsky discuss what happened after 1970.
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$5 million gift from Meyer Luskin establishes research center for history and policy at UCLA
The center will foster teaching, research and collaborations across campus and beyond the university that will direct historical insights to shaping policies and solving problems.
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A look at the history and future of rail transit in L.A.
In a city famous for traffic jams and rush-hour gridlock, a return to rail may be putting Los Angeles on the right track.
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Biggest obstacles to California coastal access are economic
Sixty-two percent of California voters said access to coastal areas is a problem, and even more said that they were deterred by the cost of parking, overnight accommodations and transportation options.
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UCLA public health team assesses health impact of state's high-speed rail project
A team from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is helping to steer California’s high-speed rail project in a healthy direction.
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An L.A. civics lesson from inside City Hall
Three students from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs are gaining real-world experience this year as David Bohnett Fellows working in the offices of Mayor Eric Garcetti at L.A. City Hall.
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UCLA WORLD Policy Analysis Center assesses countries’ efforts to address rights of people with disabilities
The study is released as the United Nations marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Poverty may have a greater effect on suicide rates than do unemployment or foreclosures
Research co-authored by UCLA professor Mark Kaplan attempted to explain how different aspects of an economic downturn affect suicide rates and alcohol-related suicides in particular.
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Q&A with Patricia Gándara on bilingual education
The codirector of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA notes that students who participate in a good bilingual program perform better in English.
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UCLA dietitians argue the case for soda taxes to help curb obesity
Education hasn’t done enough, the experts say, so penalizing behavior via taxes might work better to get people to stop drinking the empty calories.
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The economics of the sex trade
Although prostitution has been studied by various social scientists, the “world’s oldest profession” has received less attention from economists. But that’s changing.
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A guide to turn the L.A. River green
A new toolkit created by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation is designed to help communities navigate paths to improving the areas immediately around the river.
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UCLA faculty voice: Relationship advice from the government doesn’t help low-income couples
Partners not earning much money are likely to struggle because they face challenges outside of their marriage, not communication within their marriage.
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Public money accounts for more than 70 percent of health care spending in California
UCLA researchers say that given the dominance of public spending in health care, a single-payer system might be more feasible than previously thought.
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UCLA faculty voice: Opioid addiction is too common for continued inaction
Law professor Jill Horwitz discusses the high rate of opioid addiction, and analyzes the ineffective state laws that have tried to curb the pervasive disease.
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UCLA faculty voice: We can’t rely on luck to counter public health threats
Professor Jonathan Fielding writes that without the necessary funds, fighting Zika, Ebola and other infectious diseases is a losing battle.
- Sunday, February 17, 2019