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A mother’s battle to protect her son’s care | Capital & Main
Republican attacks on Medicaid are nothing new, according to Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research. Kominski attributes GOP lawmakers’ efforts to cut government benefits like Medicaid to a “deeply held resentment of government programs that support low-income individuals” and their desire to cut federal spending to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy.
Democrats took Latino electorate for granted | New York Times
Efrén Pérez, a professor of political science and psychology at UCLA, provided an explanation in an email responding to my queries: “Latinos, like other humans in the world, have a multiplicity of identities: religion, class, race, ethnicity, nation, etc. Which of those identities drives behavior depends on the immediate context — with political discourse playing an important role in raising the salience of in-groups and out-groups.” (UCLA’s Rodolfo Solis was also quoted.)
NWS stops translating products for non-English speakers | Associated Press
Norma Mendoza-Denton, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said there are many people in the U.S. that function with limited English relevant to their daily routines. For example, a shopkeeper might be able to have short conversations with customers, but might not have the same understanding when it comes to reading weather or climate terminologies.
Health risks of smoke prompt push for more monitoring | KFF Health News
While Air Quality Index values are a good starting place for knowing what’s in the air, they don’t provide a full picture of pollutants, especially during disasters, said Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at UCLA. In fact, the AQI could be in a healthy range, “but you could still be exposed to higher air toxins from the fires,” she added.
Trump threats spur different responses | Los Angeles Times
After Trump issued an executive order purporting to require all prospective voters to show proof of citizenship — a threat to the voting rights of many American citizens who lack documents — the UCLA Voting Rights Project announced it was “doubling down” on its commitment to defending voting rights by bringing two prominent California Democrats on board … Chad Dunn, the project’s legal director, said it is “at times breathtaking the extent to which the White House runs roughshod over enactments of Congress and plain language in the Constitution,” and that “this is a unique moment” where everyone with power to resist such actions has to do so, despite the risks.
Solving housing crisis hinges on policy, zoning reform | Smart Cities Dive
Developers often take years to complete multifamily apartment building projects as they navigate a maze of environmental review and planning approvals, in addition to inspections, said Tim Kawahara, executive director at the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate.
*The entry below contains spoilers for the season three finale of “The White Lotus”
How realistic was the poisonous fruit on “The White Lotus”? | Time
When Dr. Michael Levine, an emergency medicine physician at UCLA Health, watched the finale, a couple plot points stood out to him as most unrealistic. Lochlan appeared to get sick almost immediately after downing the poisoned smoothie, which typically wouldn’t be the case. “The timing is certainly abnormal,” he says.
