In today’s New York Times, UCLA’s Christopher Tang speaks about how consumer behavior in California could change as a result of the state’s skyrocketing gas prices, which are nearly $2 more than the national average. Tang, a distinguished professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a supply chain expert, says the ripple effects will be felt across the state’s transportation, agriculture, tourism and hospitality sectors. “Discretionary spending often drops when pain at the pump increases,” he said. Read more about UCLA in today’s Spectrum News 1 and LAist’s “AirTalk.”
More highlights from UCLA in the News: March 25, 2026
Cesar Chavez allegations continue to resonate | Spectrum News 1
“We are focusing back on the real heroes of the movement, which are the people who did the work. People like Dolores Huerta. And in that sense, this is not an erasure. This is an affirmation of what’s really important, which are the principles of social justice, which is what the farmworkers have always stood for,” said UCLA’s Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda (approx. 3:25 mark).
A new homelessness strategy is sweeping California | CalMatters
Even among the people who didn’t get prevention funds, the overall rate of homelessness in these studies tends to be small (in Santa Clara County, 4.1% of people who didn’t get help became homeless, compared to 0.9% who did get help). That’s because, despite the very visible humanitarian crisis on the streets of California, statistically speaking, homelessness is still extremely rare, said Janey Rountree, executive director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA, which helped develop a similar program in Los Angeles County.
Hysterectomies are common, let’s talk about them | LAist’s “AirTalk”
“For me, as a benign gynecologist, which means I don’t deal with cancer, the primary reason a patient will come to me and we decide for a hysterectomy will be heavy bleeding, which we can’t control with medications or other therapies; fibroids, which are causing pelvic pressure or pelvic discomfort,” said UCLA’s Dr. Lena Nathan (approx. 4:05 mark).
Lawmakers seek protections for countertop manufacturers | KFF Health News
Jane Fazio, a pulmonologist at UCLA, recalls seeing advanced fibrosis in otherwise healthy workers. “They have families. They were working full-time,” she said. Some experienced respiratory failure within a few years.
In Hollywood, teams don’t stick together long enough to learn from failure | Phys.org
In research published in Management Science, UCLA Anderson’s Kumar Rajaram and Penn State’s Suresh Muthulingam examined how track records of key team members on temporary projects shaped the financial performance of the project. Analyzing data from the U.S. motion picture industry, they found that teams whose members had a history of projects with box-office success tended to produce more profitable movies (calculated as revenue minus production budget), while teams with members who had a history of flops tended to produce less profitable ones.
