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The report assumes that mass vaccinations will clear a path toward a new, productive normalcy for many industries.

The live virtual event honored the work of journalists whose contributions illuminate the worlds of business, finance and the economy.

Researchers tested the approach by designing a computer model based on Sierra Madre, California, a suburb of Pasadena.

UCLA Labor Center researchers found that COVID-19 has exacerbated difficulties for a population that so often works in the service jobs that have disappeared.

A new UCLA report recommends that state and local officials develop plans to retrain members of the Latino workforce for jobs in the digital economy.

Economists say the positive outlook is partly due to consumers and businesses quickly adapting to virtual commerce.

With a statewide moratorium on evictions set to expire, thousands of renters are at risk of losing their housing.

UCLA’s Raul Hinojosa said that their reduced purchasing power amid a looming recession is a public health and economic crisis.

Systemic racial inequalities underlie the difficulties many people of color have paying rent, according to new UCLA research.

The analysis used data from California and New York to better understand the nature and magnitude of the economic disruption.

The UCLA Anderson Forecast team writes that the economy is in a “Depression-like crisis.”

UCLA’s Career Center and Alumni Association continue to offer programs and services to help students and graduates through the crisis.

UCLA's Quality of Life Index found that the young and economically stressed are far less optimistic about their opportunities.

The local union members lost their jobs in the hospitality and restaurant industries as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.

The update is the second revision to the regular quarterly spring forecast, which was published on March 12.

A new survey shows that despite deep concern, most Angelenos trust the response of local officials to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Till von Wachter, director of the California Policy Lab, says that even with the CARES Act prolonged large-scale unemployment may still be hard to reverse.

The escalating effects of the coronavirus pandemic have reduced the first-quarter 2020 forecast of GDP growth to 0.4%.

Senior economist David Shulman writes that the pandemic is “both a supply shock and a demand shock on the economy.”

Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch have been surveying Americans to discover what drives voters.

Jennifer Chun examines how labor, gender, race, class and migration intersect in today’s global economy.

The report says GDP will reach 2% in the fourth quarter of 2020 and the California economy looks slightly stronger than previously predicted.

Economic anthropologist Hannah Appel will focus on future of finance in new role at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

The authors expect California's unemployment rate to rise to an average of 5.1% in the fourth quarter of 2020.