In four upcoming campus events, UCLA experts and others share their expertise on important issues in the presidential election this November:
“The Presidential Candidates: Their Health Plans”
Tuesday, Sept. 27, noon-1 p.m., UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Gerald Kominski, director of UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research, discusses the nature and feasibility of the candidates’ plans for the future of health care in America. Learn about Donald Trump’s plan to replace the Affordable Care Act with block grants to states and Hillary Clinton’s promise to expand Medicaid in every state as well as to undocumented workers and their families. The lunchtime seminar is free and open to the general public at the center's offices in the UCLA Wilshire Center, 10960 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1550.
“The Presidential Election: The Economics Behind the Policies”
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 7:30 a.m.-noon, Korn Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
The quarterly UCLA Anderson Forecast focuses on what the presidential election will mean for the economy, including the impacts of the candidates' policies on health care, trade and labor. Among the UCLA presenters are UCLA Anderson Forecast director Edward Leamer and Forecast economists David Shulman, Jerry Nickelsburg and William Yu. Registration costs $195. Register online by Monday, Sept. 26, 11:59 p.m.
“The Politics of Race in the 2016 Election”
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m., Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Hammer Museum
Kristen Clarke, executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Ian Haney López, professor of law at UC Berkeley and author of “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class,” discuss the disenfranchisement of potential voters in the racially charged election. Admission is free but tickets are required, available at the theater’s box office one hour before the program on a first-come, first-served basis. Early arrival is recommended
“Historians and Others (Try to) Make Sense of the 2016 Election”
Thursday, October 13, 7 p.m., California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Stephen Aron, professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair of the UCLA Department of History, moderates a "Why HIstory Matters" panel discussion featuring UCLA professors Ivan Berend and Ellen Dubois, campaign strategists Bill Carrick and Paul Maslin, and Los Angeles Times Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Mascaro. A reception follows.
