public policy

The Worker Equity Initiative will explore how government agencies and their partners help workers thrive in quality careers.

UCLA’s Dennis Lettenmaier and colleagues found that mosquito populations would have been around 40% higher without water-use mandates.

UCLA sociologist Cecilia Menjívar explains that today’s plagued system began taking shape well before the Trump administration.

A UCLA report recommends changing land-use policies and improving access to social and health services to address the fast-growing problem.

A UCLA study shows that 30% of residents now can choose cleaner power from community choice aggregators.

The project is supported by a $3.65 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The big-data research initiative based at UCLA uses police and jail records to monitor how much authorities are spending to lock up residents.

UCLA’s Daniel Blumstein and a global team of scientists point to environmental, population and political challenges.

A Bruin guide to some of this month’s most intriguing events at UCLA.

A UCLA study recommends that Congress prioritize communities of color for next pandemic relief payments.

The seven grants from the California Bureau of Cannabis Control will support research on health, policy and labor issues.

Without careful planning, the shift to green power could cost more and strain the state’s grid.

UCLA’s Ann Carlson said the new administration should be able to rebuild protections, even with a narrowly divided Congress.

A report by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy draws fresh attention to the manner in which corporate entities sought to benefit.

In the nearly half of U.S. states for which data was available, detentions outpaced population growth by a rate of 3 to 1 on average in recent years.

The site’s creators hope that researchers and journalists will be able to use it to track the issues and stories around hate crimes.

Sonja Diaz, the founding director of the Latino Policy & Politics Initiative, understands how research can directly result in legislation that serves society’s needs.

A new UCLA report is intended to dispel a common misconception that immigration policy is a top-of-mind issue for Latino voters.

A UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy report tracks the state’s history of restricting and expanding the franchise.

The ambitious paper illuminates the barriers to success that limited many of the city’s residents even before COVID-19 but have been exacerbated since the pandemic began.

UCLA’s Eric Fournier explains why the state’s infrastructure isn’t well suited for such extreme conditions — and what improvements are needed.

Eighty-seven percent of those surveyed said they disagreed with the policy — including 71% of Republicans.

Research revealed that over 88% of residents with temporary protected status are in the labor force, and that almost 11% are self-employed.

The projected undercount will disproportionately hurt the poor and people of color, UCLA researchers warn.

The online gathering was a unique opportunity for fledgling public policy experts to help make history.