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How extreme heat disproportionately affects neighborhoods | The Verge
A new online dashboard shows how Latino neighborhoods are disproportionately affected in California. Developed by the University of California, Los Angeles, the tool helps fill in gaps as the Trump administration takes a sledgehammer to federal climate, race, and ethnicity data resources. “We want to provide facts, reliable data sources. We don’t want this to be something that gets erased from the policy sphere,” says Arturo Vargas Bustamante, faculty research director at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute.
Significant wage gap for Latina workers in these counties | Phys.org
The analysis, led by UCLA, UC Santa Cruz and Cal State Channel Islands researchers, looked at data from the United States Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey and thousands of surveys collected by the researchers, primarily focused on Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and Ventura workers aged 18 to 34 … “On average, men make more than women. However, hourly earnings are especially low for Latinas, who tend to get paid less than other women of color, white women and white men,” said Veronica Terriquez, research author, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and co-founder of the Latina Futures 2050 Lab, an initiative spearheaded by the center.
Some July 4th events cancelled over ICE concerns | Daily Breeze
Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, says the cancelations of 4th of July events are understandable. “They underscore the impact created by ICE’s tactic of detaining people without suspicion, even though that tactic is plainly unlawful under their own regulations, the Fourth Amendment, and governing precedent interpreting ICE authority in this context,” Arulanantham said.
As birthright citizenship is challenged, families live in fear | Merced Sun-Star
Still, immigrant families, like the one in Sacramento, are living under a federal administration that seems intent on creating fear, said Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a health policy and management professor at UCLA. Bustamante, who recently authored a report on a potential birthright citizenship ban, said such a policy would have lasting effects throughout the nation. These would include reduced health care utilization, worsened birth outcomes, lower public safety net programs and economic instability.
Undocumented immigrants see cuts in California budget | New York Times
Sonja Diaz, a civil rights lawyer who founded the Latino Politics and Policy Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the decision by state leaders to reverse course reflected broader changes in the political climate. “For a state like California to pull back and to create caveats on this issue is telling of how strong MAGA’s influence is,” she said.
SCOTUS takes up case on campaign financing limits | Associated Press
Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the UCLA School of Law, has predicted the court will strike down the limits. “That may even make sense now in light of the prevalence of super PAC spending that has undermined political parties and done nothing to limit (and in fact increased) corruption and inequality,” Hasen wrote on the Election Law blog.
To fight freezes, states consider withholding federal payments | NBC News
But that doesn’t mean states, working in the current hostile political environment, shouldn’t try, said Jon Michaels, a professor at the UCLA School of Law who specializes in the separation of powers and presidential power.
How big batteries could prevent power blackouts | Los Angeles Times
“An increase in heat extremes is the most obvious symptom of climate change,” said Karen McKinnon, a professor who studies the statistics behind climate change at UCLA. “Even seemingly small changes in temperatures of a few degrees can make summers feel substantially more extreme.”
Recent Bay Area winds record-breaking | San Francisco Chronicle
To account for this year’s windiness, UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain points to an unusually persistent and eastward-shifted North Pacific High this year. “This is exactly the pattern you’d expect to generate unusually strong northwesterly winds along the coast and in some of the near-coastal inland valleys,” he said.
Telehealth abortions are on the rise | USA Today
Nearly half of all telehealth abortions provided in 2024 were in states with shield laws, the report found. According to the UCLA Center for Reproductive Health, Lawand Policy, shield laws provide “legal protections for patients, health care providers, and people assisting in the provision of certain health care in states where that care is legal from the reach of states with civil, criminal and professional consequences related to that care.”
UCLA No. 13 in 2025 ranking of best global universities | The Hill
The 2025-26 ranking from U.S. News & World Report included 2,250 top universities from more than 100 countries and considered factors like the school’s international opportunities, student makeup and research opportunities.
