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How Trump’s NEA cuts are hitting home | Los Angeles Times
“It’s really gonna leave us in the red, I think,” said Edgar Miramontes, executive and artistic director of CAP UCLA, which spent its $40,000 grant in January on a program featuring Congolese dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula, who used movement to honor maternal ancestors and to tell the story of women in his clan.
Why Newsom’s federal tax credit for Hollywood has long odds | L.A. Times
“The political optics on it are going to be very, very difficult,” said George Huang, a professor of screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. “To most people, [the entertainment industry] seems like a frivolous thing.”
LGBTQ Catholics hope for continued inclusion under new pope | CBS News
A 2020 study from UCLA’s Williams Institute found that there were approximately 11.3 million LGBTQ adults in the U.S., and about 5.3 million of them are religious, including about 1.3 million who are Roman Catholics.
Supreme Court lets transgender military ban take effect | Wall Street Journal
There is no firm data on the number of transgender service members. The plaintiffs cited a 2014 study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, which estimated that 0.6% of adults who served identify as transgender.
Do mortgage rates go down in a recession? | Yahoo Finance
Clement Bohr, economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, recently issued a Recession Watch analysis. “Every economist out there right now is saying just this tariff policy alone could trigger a recession in the U.S.,” Bohr told Yahoo Finance. However, he added that forecasting a recession is difficult because policymaking decisions by the Trump administration vary day-to-day.
Trump administration pressed to curb Colorado River water waste | The Hill
“More than 40 million people in seven states rely on the over-stressed Colorado River for their water supply and the West can’t afford to continue to waste water unsustainably,” Mark Gold, director of water scarcity solutions at the NRDC and a UCLA adjunct professor, said in a statement. (UCLA’s Cara Horowitz was also quoted.)
Restaurants are hard to run. Try doing it with your mother | New York Times
Running a business together can reveal fissures in mother-child relationships that were previously (and likely to have remained) dormant. Dr. Steve Lee, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Department of Psychology, made the analogy of a ship being steered capably for long passages of time, assuming its course, without knowing the issues that lie below.
