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Economist Lee Ohanian makes the case that income inequality is not nearly so rampant as reports suggest and that a better indicator of well-being is consumption.

The UCLA Labor Center produces the nation's only storytelling radio show that focuses on workers and the issues they face. Students and community members work on Re:Work Radio and learn storytelling skills and multimedia production.

In a UCLA study more than twice as many people ended up with coverage. These findings could prove useful in finding ways to increase participation in plans and reduce disparities in health insurance coverage.

The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations presents: "Don’t Wait for the Next War: A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership" with Gen. Wesley K. Clark Retired.

The Center for the Art of Performance is presenting a week-long interactive art installation on Royce Quad to build understanding between veterans and civilians. It’s being offered in conjunction with a multimedia theatrical production, “Basetrack Live.”

Tyrone Howard of UCLA’s Black Male Institute says that a failure to intervene to help boys and men of color may have disastrous consequences for them and the country.

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew led a wide-ranging conversation Wednesday with the UCLA Anderson’s class of 2016 that touched on such issues as world economic growth, international sanctions against Russia and stemming the flow of funds to ISIL.

A new UCLA report underscores the need for immigration reform by countering the narrative that there's been a “surge” in unaccompanied minors driven by violence in Central America.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block welcomed approximately 900 people to Royce Hall Tuesday night for the Los Angeles premiere of “Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football.”

Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco says that as families are fleeing inequality and violence, keeping them apart fixes nothing.

A study co-authored by a UCLA public policy professor found some positive effects in Rhode Island after the state accidentally made prostitution legal for seven years.

UCLA arts lecturer Tom Skelly spent 30 years working with inmates in the state prison in Chino. "I would do it again," he says.

From 2005 to 2007, roughly 20 percent of people who committed suicide were intoxicated at death, but that percentage was notably higher during and after the recession, according to a study led by UCLA professor Mark Kaplan.

UCLA School of Law professor Adam Winkler says Justice Breyer’s opinion in the recess appointments case deals a blow to constitutional originalism.

UCLA professor Edward Walker explains how corporations — from Verizon to Wal-Mart — manufacture citizen lobbyists.

Washington Post reporter Niraj Chokshi spoke with Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy at UCLA, about the legalization of marijuana that has been approved by the voters in Washington state and Colorado.

Marking Ramadan as a "new American tradition" not only overlooks the holy month observed by enslaved Muslims many years ago, but also perpetuates their erasure from Muslim American history.

Law professor Adam Winkler says that minority groups could be at risk of losing legal protections after the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case.

Adam Winkler says Justice Kennedy's swing vote status on gun control may be why the Court was reluctant to hear Second Amendment cases.

President Obama met for a few minutes at LAX with students in a UCLA seminar taught by actor and former White House aide Kal Penn. The class: "Hope, Change, and Fist Bumps: Young Americans and The Obama Presidency."

In its first quarterly report of 2014, the Forecast asserts that the weather that ravaged much of the country caused slower-than-expected national growth. However, the economy should rebound in the spring.

Postdoctoral scholar Nicole Mirra questions claims that the Common Core emphasizes civic responsibility and looks at what the new standards are really doing to prepare students to be citizens.

The former secretary of state offered her observations about the turmoil in Ukraine and offered advice to UCLA students about how they could help reinvent the U.S. economy for the 21st century.

When it comes to influential positions in the industry, minorities and women are represented at rates far below what would be expected given their percentage of the general population, according to a new UCLA study.

Rep. Raul Ruiz, a 1994 graduate, was dubbed by Politico as a freshman lawmaker most likely to succeed. The 41-year-old California Democrat from the Coachella Valley is a member of No Labels, a group of almost 100 Republicans and Democrats dedicated to ending partisan gridlock.